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The NCAA’s gripe is with two classes Hill took while at West Brunswick, a school in his hometown of…
The NCAA’s gripe is with two classes Hill took while at West Brunswick, a school in his hometown of Shallotte, N.C. According to Fletcher, both were computer courses offered regularly and taken by hundreds of students. They took place in a normal classroom with a teacher present but were technically correspondence courses because they involved subjects not offered at West Brunswick.
Hill took one of the courses as far back as his sophomore year, and he was only in that class because he’d broken his hand, couldn’t take physical education and needed the credit, Fletcher said.
Gentry Estes: Alfy Hill ruled out at Alabama for high school computer courses
Gentry Estes has the scoop on what was behind the Alfy Hill situation. Two quick thoughts:
(1) This kid was screwed royally, no two ways about it. He was a good student in high school and was doing very well academically at UA. This is the kind of ridiculous behavior on the part of the NCAA that generates all of those horror stories and conspiracy theories. Rest assured this will get the whole ‘Bama nation up in arms, and I think rightly so. When you read stories like this, you just want to take every one of those fluff “student-athlete” commercials that the NCAA produces and shove it up their collective asses ’til it spews out their mouth.
(2) I suppose it’s possible that these courses could get validated again on appeal and Hill could rejoin the team in January. I imagine, though, the odds are against that, so he’s probably going to have to go to either JUCO or prep school. I’d hate to see him have to go to JUCO over this and spend two years there while wasting a year of eligibility, but I figure the smart money is on that now. I’m not sure our staff is too keen on the notion of sending a kid to a place like Hargrave after the Bobby Massie fiasco a couple of years back. I’m still holding out hope for prep school, but I’m thinking JUCO may be more likely. Either way, we should find out in the next few days.
University of Alabama freshman Alfy Hill may not play with the Crimson Tide this fall due to an…
University of Alabama freshman Alfy Hill may not play with the Crimson Tide this fall due to an NCAA Clearinghouse issue regarding his high school academic record, his high school coach told The Tuscaloosa News Thursday morning.
“We’re fighting the NCAA on this thing right now,” said Fletcher. “We’re talking about classes that we’ve used here for years with no problem, and now we’re being told they don’t count.”
Tuscaloosa News: Freshman Hill’s academics in question
Classes. Plural. Not good.
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.
@ChaseGoodbread – Alfy Hill next to Courtney Upshaw. Yeah he’s that big. I’m sure you’ve all heard…
@ChaseGoodbread – Alfy Hill next to Courtney Upshaw. Yeah he’s that big.
I’m sure you’ve all heard about how Alfy Hill showed up ready to go, and Goodbread provides some pretty solid visual evidence. Yikes.