He comes from a New England prep school where he likely picked up some AP credits, and athletes often stay on campus and pick up credits over the summer. Impressive, yes, but surprising? Not really.
Long stretches of Clayton and Windham would leave us undersized on defense, but maybe Lowry could come up with something to make that work.
B) Not out of place, but would expect him to start at the 1.
Then you keep him. Just be honest on where he stands now. I think the vast majority of players would leave if they saw limited opportunities.
If I read that right, NU is going to maintain the 13 scholarship limit, so Smith and Gus as walk-ons makes sense unless Collins finds an unknown stud among the other gym rats.
Might as well just give them scholarships if they're going to stay on the team, no?
I'm in favor of giving them scholarships because I'm also in favor of expanding the scholarship limit to 15.
This opens our possibilities by 25%.
That just means their next year of school. It's a modern (newfangled?) way of saying "coming into his/her junior year".
There has been a shitton of news about NU changing its transfer rules, windows, speed, and other considerations over the last many months
Are you sure?
Wouldn’t it increase by 50%
The fact that none of us can figure this out means we all clearly need a lot more credits and should be transfer eligible
admissions.northwestern.edu
As you've pointed out in prior post, it's entirely possible that a student transferring into NU with "too many" units on his/her record might not find all credit earned elsewhere is transferable. (Often found when the student is changing majors midstream, as is not uncommon.) What you found on the website just essentially says is that the so-called junior & senior year's courses would have to be taken at NU, as I read it.
Appreciate your finding this. A couple of observations: 1) if someone comes in with the equivalent of 21 NU credits, isn't that person a rising junior? Based on what you found here, those transfers are ok. 2) if a coach found a kid who had, say 23 NU credits, why wouldn't NU simply require the student to take at least 44 credits to graduate? Or couldn't NU simply not count several credits to ensure the student had the majority of their credits at the hallowed halls of NU?This is directly from the NU website and it is essentially what I remember...
"A student entering as a transfer student in a four-year degree program must be registered at the University for at least 6 quarters and earn credit for courses worth at least 21 units at the University."
"Between 42 and 50 units are required for graduation, depending on the Northwestern undergraduate school."
side note - (It is possible the requirement of 21 units was lowered)
"The official evaluation of your credits will be made by Northwestern's Registrar's Office. Once a transfer applicant has been accepted, the Office of Undergraduate Admission will initiate the process of credit evaluation."
Transferring to Northwestern: Undergraduate Admissions - Northwestern University
This is the same thing the school does when transferring colleges internally, by the way. When I switched into Weinberg my Junior year I lost quite a lot of credits I'd taken WITHIN Northwestern. Pretty common. They simply capped the number they allowed to transfer.
A lot of players on FB team do (presumably because many of them are in summer school cause they already need to be on campus), I would guess BB is similar. But a question, If we lose Hunger would we need to get two Bigs rather than just one?
I'm curious about Gus. With very little to go on, I suspect he isn't quite fast enough for the switching defense. I've seen him scrimmage with Luke and Matt, and he bangs pretty well - at least well enough to pretty much shut Luke down - has a decent +/- 8 foot shot range, and a baby hook that works well enough.
