Not my words… that’s what Shams wrote in the tweet. Seems like he didn’t have his paperwork in time to be approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse. Not sure if that means the NCAA didn’t review some exception fast enough or whatever else.
Either way, he reclassed in August and probably some international issues to work through considering he is originally from Mali (although went to HS all four years in the US I believe).
I assume there were some hiccups in the admissions/reclassification process that just didn’t get worked out in time.
A really weird scenario. Dante is going to re-enroll at Oregon on December 14th hoping to ruled eligible by then. Our game against Oregon is scheduled for December 14th. Plus we may play them in the Bahamas. Before Dante’s commitment Oregon was a back end top 25 projected team so this makes the potential matchups much more winnable for Michigan.
This is very good for Michigan since it ups the odds of winning, but they’ll still get the benefit of beating a top “whatever” Oregon team even though they were worse at the time.
The moving pieces involved make me think there’s a non-zero chance that Dante never plays for Oregon, though. If he is eligible for Pac 12 play then it definitely helps.
Looks interesting. I definitely think you look to take clear conference favorites in mid/low-major wild cards (e.g. Vermont) for 3 of your wild cards (hopefully my math is for teams is counting right) to get a lot of value out of conference wins and conference tournament wins and you assume that a lot these feel like for-gone conclusions for both regular season and conference tournaments. In essence you play for the conference seasons. Also have to look at value picks for top 2 or 3 in a conference. I think Ohio State is a better value than UNC for example as I think that their floor might be higher because of depth and conference.
I just spent entirely too much time on that year long office pool. Almost got what I’m looking for though. Pain in the ass though going through all these mid major squads though.