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Anybody know what is going on with Dante? Even a solid guess would be appreciated. Thank you.

They asked Altman about this in a media session and he sounded much more confident about Patterson than he did about Dante. I have no inside info, and maybe the situation will be quickly resolved, but I came away from that Altman answer wondering if Dante would actually be joining the team.

From yesterday's Register-Guard article.
https://www.ducksports.com/sports/20191 ... r-schedule
"...........assuming that 6-foot-11 freshman N’Faly Dante completes the admissions process after reclassifying to join the Ducks this year.........With Dante still unable to practice as he seeks NCAA clearance, the Ducks have 14 players available for practice."

Yeah, I'm starting to get concerned..

I think he'll be alright. Worst case scenario, he enrolls winter quarter.

GrantDuck wrote:I think he'll be alright. Worst case scenario, he enrolls winter quarter.

If he hasn't taken enough classes to reclassify, doesn't that mean worst case scenario is he can't come here this season and may consider other schools again for next year?

I suppose that's possible, but hopefully he'd get a determination soon, so that he might get some coursework done in the next 2 months if necessary for qualification for winter quarter.

I wonder how the heck there's still hold ups in this day and age with qualification and admissions.

I know there used to be that thing where you could "challenge" a test score or whatever if you were another school.

It seems like to me you should be able to see if someone meets the admission standard within 5 minutes of looking at an application and there shouldn't be any gray areas. Like, they either have this combination of grades and test scores or they don't. Either a school or online school qualifies in terms of grades or it doesn't.

I know Dante was taking summer courses to get eligible, but beyond that ???.

GrantDuck wrote:I wonder how the heck there's still hold ups in this day and age with qualification and admissions.

I know there used to be that thing where you could "challenge" a test score or whatever if you were another school.

It seems like to me you should be able to see if someone meets the admission standard within 5 minutes of looking at an application and there shouldn't be any gray areas. Like, they either have this combination of grades and test scores or they don't. Either a school or online school qualifies in terms of grades or it doesn't.

I know Dante was taking summer courses to get eligible, but beyond that ???.

Could be in part because he didn't spend 4 years at an American high school as most kids do. There's also simply a lot of student-athletes nationwide across many sports that go through the system. Only natural that there will be queues in the instances where it's not open-and-shut.

Any news on this? It seems pretty quiet consider how big of a deal it is.

Apparently Prehm is saying that he’s going to be cleared soon.

Things looking positive here from a couple different sources.

For those that didn't catch it, Altman was pressed on this at media day.

First he said that he wasn't sure, but he was hopeful...and that they'd hear at some point this week, and that there was still time to technically enroll if he's cleared. A follow up was asked about him being cleared for WINTER quarter and Altman said he didn't know anything more at this time.

He also said it would be more clear in a few days.

Fingers crossed