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Originally posted by BradleyBrave View PostBut we do take you if you're academically questionable. Daniel Ruffin was questionable, and we took him, and were burned by him losing a year. We took Crawford, and were burned again. We took Buycks, and were burned again. We took Williams, and were burned again. I don't think Les wanted to take a chance of being burned yet again by a non-qualifier. I don't think West is 'garbage', it just doesn't sound like he takes school seriously.
First, Daniel was not academically questionable when he was being recruited. He committed in January of his senior year of high school, and he took the ACT several more times after that point, and got qualifying scores every time.
Daniel was a good student with very good grades in HS. There was nothing in his academic background that would or should have caused any school to back off him. His problem was that the NCAA refused to accept his qualifying ACT score, and that wasn't decided until November after Daniel had enrolled at Bradley. If a college waited until after a HS kid had received a qualifying score, or especially after he was cleared by the clearinghouse, there wouldn't be any kids left to recruit.
In the other cases, you also say "we took" Crawford, "we took" Buycks, "we took" Williams.
Wrong, we never took them. We recruited them, we did not take any of those 3 kids. None of those 3 were ever accepted or enrolled at Bradley
Bradley recruited those kids, as did many colleges. You don't stop recruiting kids, or offering scholarships just because there is a chance they may not qualify. Almost no coach in Div 1 does that.
The situation with West is not much different. Bradley recruited him, offered him and he committed. When Bradley concluded his academic situation was not adequate (it just happened a little earlier with West than the others), the scholarship offer is revoked. It comes with conditions that all kids who accept it must abide by. I have seen standard scholarship agreement papers that colleges sign all scholarship athletes to, not just basketball players, but men and women in all sports- and they are just like a legal contract. In these above cases it was the students who did not comply with their side of the agreement. It happens at every college.
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