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What happened to Jamal Geathers? He signed with USC but I havent seen him on the roster on USC website, nor has he played this year. Did he get redshirted or hurt?

So does no one know where he went? Surely he is playing somewhere...

Post under the boys forum.

Maybe he is with Carmen San Diego or with Waldo....

FWIW, my understanding is that Jamal got caught up in the NCAA Clearinghouse snafu and will be at USC in the Spring of 2007.

Best of luck to Jamal as he is a great young man and a tremendous talent. I had the pleasure to coach against him the last couple of years and have him camp this past summer as well as being around him at the North-South Soccer Classic last June. He'll be a success at USC!

I had similar problems. I took English 1 in middle school and 2,3, and 4 in high school. My senior year I took an extra math class instead of the unnecessary 5th English. Clearinghouse got me for not having "Four credits of English taken in high school".

"One of these days they'll build a stick with a nail in it so big it will destroy them all!!!"

-Kodo & Zoto

W&E... was it corrected or is it required to take in school?

I know of some players who take HS credit courses in 7&8th grade. Would they be in the same predicament?

If you take HS credit courses in 7th or 8th grade, then you must "make that up" at the HS level. For example:

If a student takes English I in the 8th grade, when he gets to HS, he will need to take four years of English per the NCAA Clearinghouse criteria. Thus he could take English II (9th), English III (10th), English IV (11th), and then have to have a fourth English at some point such as Drama or some other approved English credit course.

This often happens with "high achievers" that take HS credit courses at the middle school level. You just have to pay attention to the criteria as your progress through HS. It's beneficial to have a proactive Guidance Department as well.

That seems a bit ridiculous given the fact that they are pushing everything to earlier grades. My son will complete middle school with 5 Carnegie units. Since we don't want him graduating early (as is, he will only be 17 when he finished HS), we were hoping he would get the opportunity to attend the Fine Arts Center or take classes he was interested in.

I'm sorry carnegie units? What is he studying to be a steel mill?