Per Travis Reier and some others, it seems like Alfy Hill suddenly has academic issues with the…

Per Travis Reier and some others, it seems like Alfy Hill suddenly has academic issues with the NCAA Clearinghouse. A million F-bombs is all I can say. It sounds serious, and losing Hill would be a big loss; he was highly-touted as a recruit and he has impressed everyone since stepping on campus.

And apparently Hill missed practice today, while Harrison Jones suddenly showed up and ditched the greyshirt. It doesn’t take much to put two and two together on that one. Hopefully I’m wrong — praying, actually — but if those two roster moves are related (and I suppose they are), then that may very well mean that Saban and company are not expecting Hill to make it back until January at the earliest. All the pieces suddenly fall into place in that scenario. F-bomb. Hopefully if there is an issue it’s something that he can get corrected on fairly short notice (i.e. no JUCO or anything of the sort). He was probably headed for a redshirt season, so it’s not a major loss in that regard, but the concern is just the open-ended uncertainty of what this could entail for his future eligibility.

Also, don’t think that it makes any difference that Hill was previously cleared and that he has been on campus for a few weeks. Remember back about nine years ago now when the NCAA retroactively invalidated the ACT score of ‘Bama super-recruit Harold James, declaring him academically ineligible more than four months after his freshman season had ended and almost a year after he showed up on campus. Don’t think that the NCAA Clearinghouse couldn’t do the same here with Alfy Hill, it’s well within their powers if they choose to do so.