Harris and V. Williams

[Chitown Panther]

Does anyone know their true status regarding eligability?

Harris used to be listed as a Soph....and now he is listed as a Junior.

Also, V Williams has been a mystery all year......

[JayJ79]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

Rima announced on OPR a week or two ago that the NCAA ruled that the JuCo year in question for Williams does not count against his eligibility, thus he will be able to be back next year. At least that is the last I heard about it.

Don't know anything about Harris.

[BCPanther]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

Harris is a sophomore.

He redshirted at Toledo, played 1 year at NIACC, Enrolled at UNI.

[9YRPLAN]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

so harris graduated from NIACC then? he was there last year?

[BCPanther]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

I would guess that he did not graduate from NIACC. The reason he left Toledo, by his own admission, is that he didn't take his academics seriously enough. He was scout team player of the year and would have played quite a bit out there in year two.

[Chitown Panther]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

So Williams is a Junior and Harris is a Soph. That is great news!!!! Those guys are amazing Soph pickups via the JUCO system....

www.unipanthers.com has them both listed as Juniors currently....

[9YRPLAN]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

can you transfer from a juco to d1 without either graduating or sitting out a year?

[UNIPNTHR]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

can you transfer from a juco to d1 without either graduating or sitting out a year?

I thought you could move up without penalty, just not across or down.

[clenz]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

I thought you could move down without losing a year. I remember when AA was having problems in Michigan and thought about going to UNI, and remember hearing he wouldn't have had to sit out.

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

You can move down without losing a year, but you can't move up or latterally without sitting out a year (lose it or use redshirt)

[9YRPLAN]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

he didnt sit out last year , right? so he must have graduated.

[Tango Charlie]

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can you transfer from a juco to d1 without either graduating or sitting out a year?

The answer to every question is it depends.

This is my understanding of how it works:

If an athlete doesn't get through the NCAA clearing house(non-predictor) he can't go to a four yr. school. In that case he would have to graduate from the Juco or take the ACT's until he got it right.

In the past few yrs. a number have gone to Summer school to finish at the semester in time to transfer for Spring practice.

Some Athletes have the grades/test scores to go to a 4yr. school but choose to go to a Juco. They can transfer at any time if they don't get into grade trouble at the Juco.

In any case you have 5 yrs. to play 4 seasons in any combination of Juco and 4 yr. Some choose to sit out one yr. at Juco so they will have 3yrs at the 4yr. school.

It used to be(in my time) you had 5 yrs from the time your High School class matriculated to play the 4 yrs. I believe that changed many yrs. ago.

[Chitown Panther]

Re: Harris and V. Williams

Adam Roberts is a Soph according to Farley in the WCF Courier....that makes 3 great JUCO's that have come in as Sophs.....