re: WW’s roster is insane right now..

ill just go by their numbers

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Next season will be interesting at the very least

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Referees do still control the game. I remember WW playing in games wheee we’d have 20+ fouls against us at halftime.

LSU should score at least 14 points per game with that roster! Let’s ride.

Caution: Wall of words. This will be the friction points for success with these foreign players. It could work but the probability of success is small in my opinion. Yes I used Claude and not in the least apologetic. Too many hurdles for these players to succeed.

Class Attendance & Academic Eligibility for Basketball Players: NCAA, SEC, and LSU

The framework operates on three layers. Importantly, the NCAA does not directly mandate class attendance — it mandates enrollment and academic progress. Class attendance enforcement happens primarily at the institutional level.

1. NCAA Rules (Division I — Bylaw 14)

The NCAA’s continuing eligibility framework focuses on enrollment status and progress toward a degree, not attendance per se:

Full-time enrollment (Bylaw 14.1.8 / 14.01.2): A student-athlete shall be enrolled in at least a minimum full-time program of studies, be in good academic standing, and maintain progress toward a baccalaureate or equivalent degree. ? For undergraduates this is generally 12+ credit hours per term; graduate student-athletes need 9+ credits. ?

Progress-Toward-Degree (Bylaw 14.4.3):

• All Division I student-athletes must earn at least six credit hours each term to be eligible for the following term and must meet minimum grade-point average requirements related to the school’s GPA standards for graduation. ?
• 24 credit hours must be earned during the first academic year (Bylaw 14.4.3.1).
• By the beginning of the third year of enrollment (fifth semester), a student-athlete shall be required to have designated a program of study leading toward a specific baccalaureate degree. ?
• Percentage-of-degree benchmarks: 40% completed entering year three, 60% entering year four, 80% entering year five. ?

Class attendance — the NCAA angle is reverse: The NCAA’s relevant rules actually protect class time rather than require attendance. It is against NCAA rules to miss class for practice, required meetings, or conditioning. ? Under Bylaws 17.1.6 (formerly 17.1.4.2), athletes may not miss class for practice, with narrow exceptions when practice is conducted in conjunction with travel to an away contest or in conjunction with an NCAA championship.

2. SEC Rules

The SEC does not impose a separate class-attendance bylaw distinct from NCAA rules. LSU student-athletes are expected to comply with all NCAA, SEC and institutional rules and regulations. ? The SEC layers academic-honors and APR-related expectations on top of NCAA rules but defers actual attendance policy to member institutions. SEC scheduling agreements also limit weekday game scheduling to reduce class conflict.

3. LSU Institutional Rules

This is where the actual attendance teeth are. LSU operates under its Student-Athlete Handbook, which is distributed annually and binds athletes by contract/scholarship terms. Key features:

• LSU follows the standard model where missed class for competition is treated as an “officially excused” absence, but the athlete must provide travel letters from the Athletic Department to instructors at the start of each semester.
• Practice is never an excused absence.
• LSU’s compliance office reinforces this in non-academic contexts as well: Student-athletes may not miss class time for appearances ? (referring to promotional/charitable appearances).
• LSU basketball, like most P5 basketball programs, typically uses class checkers (often a coach-funded service) who silently verify attendance and report back to coaches. Penalties (extra conditioning, suspension from practice/games, scholarship reduction) are imposed by the program/department, not by the NCAA. The SEC and NCAA leave this enforcement to the institution.

Practical Bottom Line

If a basketball player skips class, the NCAA itself imposes no direct penalty until the missed classes manifest as a failure to meet progress-toward-degree (6 hours/term, 18/27 hours per year, GPA thresholds, percentage-of-degree). At that point eligibility for the next term is lost.

The immediate, day-to-day attendance enforcement is institutional — at LSU, through the Athletic Department’s compliance office, the academic counseling staff in the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes, and head coach team rules. The Student-Athlete Handbook is the operative document, and the LSU Compliance Office is the right point of contact for the current version.

If they're eligible when they report, they're good through the fall semester. They wouldn't "flunk out" until after the next semester, by which time March Madness would be over with.

Calapari and others CONSTANTLY did this with one and dones, and Bobby Knight used to scream about it.

To my knowledge, this loophole still exists and hasn't been eliminated.