Sun Devil Sitting Out Pending Eligiblity Center Decision
Sun Devil recruit Jahii Carson is currently sitting out pending an initial eligibility decision. The story mentions that he may have taken a course towards the additional core course that he is allowed after his graduation date. With the regulations regarding non-traditional courses and initial eligibility that went into effect on August 1st, 2010, there could be a lot of potential issues with the additional course that Jahii took. It could range from the amount interaction that he had with the course instructor to the time frame that it took him to complete the course. The article also touches on the fact that he is currently sitting out and not attending team functions, which could likely mean that he has used up his 21 day temporary certification time and is now sitting out because no decision has been made on his case.
If you recall from our Legislative Proposal review in September, there is legislation out there that would potentially require a recruit to have their seven semester transcripts submitted to the EC prior to being allowed to sign an NLI. This would help the EC to get early academic qualifiers certified in a more timely manner and would also potentially help by requiring that students who attended multiple HS's to get those transcripts tracked down before July and August roll around. The latter issue is one that has cause a lot of students to exhaust their temporary certification periods in the past.
There is also talk that CAP and other NCAA level academic panels may soon look to require prospective student-athlete's to have a certain number of core courses completed after two or three years of HS in order to be on track to be a qualifier. This would put an end to PSA's getting behind in their early years of HS and then loading up on summer courses/ online course or JC courses in their final year to make up ground towards becoming a qualifier. None of this is in writing or proposal form yet, but it may well be something that we see coming out in the next legislative cycle, so stay tuned.
