(11-04-2017 09:16 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote: (11-04-2017 09:03 AM)bladhmadh Wrote: (10-31-2017 08:56 AM)McHargue Wrote: The NCAA also allowed UAB to bring kids in under the normal academic standard to get back on track so that explains some of the success. We still shouldn't be 2 score dogs to a program that just came back from the dead though.
that is not correct. they suspended the APR clock and the eligibility clock. it allowed us to bring in players who needed time to work on their academics. you also had some players that could have gone elsewhere, but their eligibility would run out before they could graduate. we also got players who came because it gave them the time to work on an advanced degree while on an athletic scholarship. most of the higher ranked prospects who had academic problems are no longer in school or have not qualified to be on the roster.
A lot more than SMU got. Still, it will be fun to watch your engineering majors play our guys.
SMU caused a lot of their own issues. their administration went out of their way to put restrictions on recruiting and kept those in place until they hired June Jones in 2008
UAB may not be Rice but we "aint chopped liver"
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