Sorry I took so long in betting back to you guys. I read the rules to mean that since the Akron transferring Hughes was not yet a full-time student that his scholarship spot could be occupied by the Missouri transferring healthy Hughes as soon as he registered a a full time student. i was wrong apparently. Here is an article on how the "big boys" use creative math to keep more than the NCAA scholarship limit of players on their roster. None other than the famous, or infamous, Rick Pitino does this on a regular basis.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
In the 2011 offseason, the University of Louisville men's basketball team found itself with a roster of 18 players—five more than the NCAA limit of 13 scholarship players for that sport.[7][/url] In the 2010–11 season, the Cardinals had a 15-man roster, but two of these players were walk-ons, placing them within NCAA limits. Three scholarship players departed after the season, but coach Rick Pitino had initially signed a four-player freshman class, resulting in 14 scholarship players plus the two returning walk-ons. Then, coaching changes gave Pitino the opportunity to add a fifth freshman, former Tennessee commit Kevin Ware, and a future upperclass contributor, George Mason transfer Luke Hancock. These signings gave the Cardinals 16 scholarship players.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversigning#cite_note-Brown_2-8][8][/url]The situation was resolved when three returning scholarship players agreed to become walk-ons for the 2011–12 season. All had originally come to Louisville as walk-ons, but had earned scholarships.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversigning#cite_note-Brown_2-8][8][/url] What made this situation especially unusual is that two of the three were seniors who were expected to start in the coming season. One of the senior walk-ons, Kyle Kuric, was the Cardinals' only returning double-figure scorer.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversigning#cite_note-Crawford-9][9][/url] The other senior walk-on, [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(basketball,_born_1987)]Chris Smith[/url], was the Cardinals' third-leading returning scorer.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversigning#cite_note-10][10][/url] Both were financially able to absorb being walk-ons—Kuric's parents are a neurosurgeon and a nurse practitioner, and Smith is the younger brother of NBA player J. R. Smith, who had paid his brother's way at U of L when he had to sit out the 2009–10 season as a transfer.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversigning#cite_note-Brown_2-8][8] I suspect that one of the kids transferring in is a walk-on; most likely the 5'8" guard from Akron. That makes the most logical sense to me. Hope this is a better answer to the Frankie Hughes potential math roster problem.
Last edited by grammudder (7/03/2017 5:39 pm)
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