He has officially cleared the NCAA clearinghouse. It was reported to
OSU Director of Football Operations last week. Unfortunately, most of the Coaches were out of town, with Coach Tressel back in the office on Friday, and Doc Tressel, running back coach, returning today.
He is enrolled at BCC (Broward County College) taking 2 core classes. (Freshman English & Math) where he is getting 2 A's. His finals are August 3rd. Football freshman can come in for Orientation anytime up until the 9th, when its a full report.
It's really going to come down to if the football office will put him on a list to get in. For those who tracked Morgan last year, and the fall out when they revoked his offer, Coach Tressel said there were four kids last year that the football office asked for special consideration on. Morgan did not make the list. My prayer is that Coach Tressel will want to put him on the list, even though we are pretty well off in the RB department.
I am personally having a hard time fully understanding why he did not get in. I talked to the Director of Admissions, and she was surprised he did not make it, being a qualifier and with his GPA/ACT combination. Then she reviewed it the the VP and who ever he consulted with, and said that he would need to take 30 hours at a branch campus or somewhere else.
In the unfortunate event that he does not make it into
OSU, after talking to other head coaches at Pitt, Toledo, Rutgers and Cincinnati, I believe he will be playing somewhere next year.
I am hopeful we can get a resolution on this quickly now that Staff has returned from vacation. He really wants to be Buckeye very, very badly.