[School Admin.]

I'm not going to get into a debate of who has been offered a scholarship or who hasn't. I will say that getting a scholarship, athletic or otherwise is a process and I'm not sure that everyone understands that. I have been involved with lots of kids getting scholarships, athletic, academic, you name it. I will tell you that anyone wishing to get an ATHLETIC scholarship must go through the NCAA Clearing house. This is an academic process where a student must meet scholastic requirements consisting of grades and test scores. If a student cannot meet those requirements, he or she is not eligible for a scholarship and they are not eligible to play sports at a NCAA Sanctioned school. Now, I know for a fact that Coaches at that level WILL NOT offer athletic scholarships unless the student has cleared the clearing house. I don't care if you are LeBron James, if you don't pass the clearing house, you get no scholarship and you do not play. I'm not saying anyone has or has not passed the clearing house, I'm just explaining the process involved. If you cannot pass the clearing house you can go to a Non-NCAA program and try to make satisfactory academic progress to attend an NCAA School, but that in-itself is a challenge, as most kids that go that route don't make it. Coaches at an NCAA program do look at kids in those programs, but they must be very impressive, as NCAA Coaches will place priority on high school recruits.