[Husker] Scholarship limit question

[Alan Siporin]

On 1/29/05 9:40 PM, "Mike Nolan" <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:
> Sorry, but you have it wrong.  A player's class year for scholarship limits
> is established when he first starts using that eligibility, at ANY college.
> 

 I don't claim to be an expert on this, so I might have it wrong but you
seem to be confusing a couple different rules, Mike. An individual's NCAA
time-clock starts ticking once he enrolls in any school. That's true. But
I've read in several places that NU, as a school, only has four slots left
from last year's class and those are filled by four of the JC transfers. (To
answer your question, too, Monty), the fifth JC already signed has to go on
this year's 25. He could have gone on last year's or this year's, if there
had been room. So that means what you said, Mike, can't be right. Not if
they have that kind of flexibility. It's not ONLY when that kid's clock
started ticking, it's where Nebraska has room.


> A player in junior college somewhere today has already started using his
> eligibility so he CANNOT POSSIBLY be part of the same class year as the
> high school seniors that are about to sign letters of intent.
> 

And yet they are. They are not part of the same graduating class. TRUE. But
they are part of the same 25 limit class. At least all but four of them are.
You will see this as fact come all the news on February 2nd. Mark my words.

Alan