Link: DT Kerry Murphy certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse; He is enrolled at UA - Page 4

sweetbamabelle · January 13th, 2009, 08:41 AM

	Quote:	Crimson Grin
	Welcome to the TIDE Murphy! By the way, How many years of eligibility does he have left?

He comes in just like a true freshman. This is great for BAMA! Welcome Kerry and keep working hard!

TidePocalypse · January 13th, 2009, 08:43 AM

Looks like opposing centers will have even less of a break come next season.

When will the other players signing for this spring submit their LOI? As far as I know, only Carpenter has signed one.

crimsonkelly · January 13th, 2009, 08:58 AM

	Quote:	TIDEFAN17
	If Kerry Murphy and Terrance Cody collided North America would split into 3 separate continents.

As an Earth Science teacher, I found that comment extremely funny.

GreatDanish · January 13th, 2009, 09:23 AM

http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2008/04/...murphy_wa.html

	Quote:	Coach Prunty from Hargrave
	"He's a great one," he said. "We got 14 going to the NFL draft this year, and he'll play on Sundays. Kerry Murphy, the kid is very talented. Now that we got that lazy streak out of him, we got him motivated -- all he needed was a motor, anyway. Kerry Murphy has NFL potential. I don't mean low-pick potential." Offense or defense? "He could play both," he said. "He's athletic, but his heart is in defense. If he does come back, we're going to move him back to defense."

The Tider · January 13th, 2009, 10:18 AM

Finally- been waiting on you big guy!!

Vinny · January 13th, 2009, 10:40 AM

Great seeing Kerry on board.

kausman · January 13th, 2009, 11:00 AM

It's about dang time. It will be good to see Murphy and Chapman on the D-line again.

Crimson Surfer · January 13th, 2009, 01:04 PM

Kerry Murphy finally enrolls at Alabama

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	Murphy learned along with University of Alabama officials that he had been certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse, after which he promptly enrolled in spring semester classes at UA. He'll be allowed to participate in spring prac tice and suit up this fall for the Crimson Tide as a freshman. A 6-foot-5, 325-pound lineman from Hoover High School, Murphy twice signed with Alabama and failed to qualify academically. As a result, he spent the past year-and-a-half playing prep school football at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Va.

i_live_4_bama · January 13th, 2009, 01:21 PM

	Quote:	deliveryman35
	So I take it that Kerry will count as part of our '09 class?

I believe he will be back-counted to last years class. That will not take up a spot on this years class but it will count toward the total number of scholly's we have. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

BigEasyTider · January 13th, 2009, 01:30 PM

	Quote:	i_live_4_bama
	I believe he will be back-counted to last years class. That will not take up a spot on this years class but it will count toward the total number of scholly's we have. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

He will probably be counted towards the 2009 class.

If you back-count him to the 2008 class, and then he cannot keep his grades up in school, then you forever lose the possibility of filling that extra spot in the 2008 class. However, if you count him towards the 2009 class, then if he drops out you have several months where you can find another player to bring in and back-count to the 2009 class.

Boclive · January 13th, 2009, 02:30 PM

	Quote:	BigEasyTider
	He will probably be counted towards the 2009 class. If you back-count him to the 2008 class, and then he cannot keep his grades up in school, then you forever lose the possibility of filling that extra spot in the 2008 class. However, if you count him towards the 2009 class, then if he drops out you have several months where you can find another player to bring in and back-count to the 2009 class.

That makes sense.

The idea that he played 2 years at Hargrave and still has 4 years of eligibility remaining confuses me, though. Can you or someone smart like you address or even yet again re-address the question of how much eligibility he may have remaining? Please remember to use only one to two syllable words in your answers...

BigEasyTider · January 13th, 2009, 02:42 PM

	Quote:	Boclive
	That makes sense. The idea that he played 2 years at Hargrave and still has 4 years of eligibility remaining confuses me, though. Can you or someone smart like you address or even yet again re-address the question of how much eligibility he may have remaining? Please remember to use only one to two syllable words in your answers...

It's simple...

When players enroll in a college -- any college, whether it be a major football university, or a junior college in the middle of nowhere -- their eligibility clock starts running. Long story short, you have five calendar years to play four football seasons. Once you exhaust either one of those two maximums, your collegiate eligibility is over.

However, places like Hargrave are not colleges. They are prep schools, which are really just advanced versions of high school. As a result, you can stay as long as you want at a place like Hargrave and still have all of your collegiate eligibility remaining because you have not enrolled in a college, and thus your eligibility clock has not started running.

This is the exact same thing that happens with prospects who choose to play Major League Baseball. They never enroll in a college, and thus they can come back at, say, 26 and still have all of their eligibility left. The same thing goes for prospects who joined our military out of high school.

As a result of the foregoing, Murphy is now enrolled and his eligibility clock will begin running immediately. From this point going forward, he will have five calendar years to play four football seasons.

Crimson Surfer · January 14th, 2009, 01:50 AM

Former Hoover star Kerry Murphy passes through NCAA Clearinghouse

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	Murphy signed one more time last year, stayed another semester at Hargrave, then took more classes at Hoover's Cahaba School to raise his grade point average enough to meet NCAA eligibility standards. Meanwhile, his mother Rosetta worked double to afford it. Murphy believed he had no choice but to keep going. "Just seeing my mom working two jobs just to pay for these courses, I just knew I couldn't fail, man," Murphy said.