SLU and initial eligibility

[Quality Is Job 1]

Someone please help me out. On Tigerboard someone has suggested that SLU and Illinois can accept non-qualifiers (Prop 48?) while Missouri can accept no more than one partial qualifier. I countered that I think SLU doesn't accept non-qualifiers but does accept partials. The poster countered that both Justin Tatum and Corey Frazier were nonQ's. I responded that I'm sure Tatum was a partial, because all he needed was for his untimed test score to be accepted and he would have been allowed to play.

Someone please clarify what SLU's policy is and what category Tatum and Frazier fell under. Thanks in advance.

http://www.tigerboard.com/boards/missouri-...message=1084964

[billiken_roy]

i did a home loan for one of justin tatum's old teachers right after he graduated from cbc who told me that justin had an acceptable gpa. i believe justin only needed an acceptable act.

[CentFLBilliken]

You have got to be kidding me Thicks,

Mizzou fans were giving you crap about SLU's qualifying standards. This coming from a school that accepted Ricky Clemons.

Perhaps we should try to hire Lance Odom away from them. He is a one-man "qualifying machine" Then our troubles would be over.

[tseugnekillib]

Is it a Big12 rule that limits Missouri or a University of Missouri rule that limits its own Athletic Department? Big difference to me. My guess is that it is conference driven.

[kshoe]

I have argued in vain with my favorite poster on the Tigerboard, Makeshift, about this subject. Whether its partial or non or what I think it is all a mute point. Basically, SLU has had two players in the past 10 years that did the prop 48 route, Tatum and Frazier. I don't think this is a "major" recruiting advantgae. Basically, its hard to tell a kid he should pay 20,000 to attend your University when he could go JUCO for free or prep school for a semster (ala Travon Bryant)

Mizzou has proven, however, that it is lax on its screening of potential JUCO players. Clemmons proves that. So does Paul Oliney who basically walked off the street to play for them. So, while technically it is easier for us to get a kid in from highschool (try convincing a kid its in his best interest to pay tuition on his own) it is considerably easier for Mizzou to get JUCOs eligible. If the Clemmons situation had not happened, does anybody believe Pulley would be ineligible?

[slufanskip]

The remark about Pulley and Clemons was exactly what I was going to say. Pulley would be playing if not for Clemons

[BillyClyde]

It is a Big 12 rule that each school can only take 1 partial qualifier. And it does matter...see Nebraska's football program. Nebraska was the lone dissenter in regard to the number of partial qualifiers a school may take when the Big 12 was formed.