It sounds to me like BK stuck his neck out to get Tee in school, seeing as Tee wasn't fully cleared medically or academically. When he realized that it was a longshot, and that someone (Tee? His parents? His highschool?) messed up, they cut ties with Tee before things could get ugly with the NCAA, admissions, and the media (could you imagine the media if it was discovered that ND allowed a recruit to take classes for a semester that wasn't even cleared for college at all? ND OF ALL PLACES?!?!).
Sucks very badly for Tee either way, since it seems he truly wanted to be at ND. And the situation sucks even more that he is now publicly saying "it was all ND." Not because he's outing ND, but because it means he feels he was let down by a great school.
The NCAA Clearinghouse has NOTHING to do with college admissions unless the student is getting an Athletic Scholarship. Athletic scholarships can't be awarded until the Clearinghouse stipulates that the recruit has met THE NCAA REQUIREMENTS.
ND could admit you to take classes but they couldn't give you an Athletic Scholarship until The Clearinghouse reviewed your required core courses, your GPA and Test Score, ACT or SAT, according to the Sliding Scale.
In one of the Tee threads that was closed I mentioned a number of ND football players that were allowed to attend class but not play while a Clearinghouse Issue was cleared up between the student's HS and the Clearinghouse.
Clearinghouse issues with HS transfers are common as class descriptions greatly vary from school to school. The second HS may require a course or courses be retaken, say for example Algebra I, the NCAA won't issue credit for the same course retaken at another school. So if a recruit was required to take 4 math courses and had taked Algebra I at two schools and Algebra II, and Geometry, The repeated course would count only once and he would be short one required course. He'd could take the HS course in the HS Spring semester or Summer School to qualify and still be elgible for Fall football.
ND Admissions reviews transcripts interviews prospectives and makes the decision on who is acceptable academically not Coach Kelly nor his predecessors. Carson Palmer and a number of blue chip recruits were told by ND to raise a course, GPA, or Test Score and didn't. They blamed ND for their shortcoming as some football factory would still take them.
In '95 Holtz tried to slip two recruits past ND Admissions. Transcripts and Test Score Certification were NOT submitted to ND admissions as required on a timely basis for review and approval before NSD. Both recruits were denied by ND Admissions and went to college elsewhere.
If a recruit was cleared academically yet failed to be cleared medically he would have been given an non-athletic scholarship (career ending injury) in compliance with NCAA regulations which ND does as policy and has for decades.
Tee was declared ineligible to play his senior year of HS school football so he had that entire semester free to focus solely on academics and the ND/NCAA Admission Requirements. Did he use the time to take a ACT review course to boost his score? Did he raise his GPA or did he get senioritis and end up with a lower GPA recquiring a higher Test Score on the NCAA's Sliding GPA/Test Score Scale?
He finished HS in December and started at ND in early January. It's possible that his official Final transcript arrived at ND AND The Clearinghouse after he started classes at ND. Could he have stated verbally when HS classes ended that everything was O.K. yet when the written transcript arrived it wasn't?
He also could have informed people he did well on his test yet when the results arrived they were less then he expected (or perhaps represented). UND may have stuck their collective neck out to allow him to arrive on campus without the documentation and gave him a couple of days or a week "grace" for the documentation to arrive as they get mailed from the school over the holidays.
Tee left ND in January and it's now 7 months later. IF it was ND's fault or his HS counselor's fault in January, why isn't he in some other college now, be it FBS, FCS, or JUCO?
So stop with the baseless speculation.
