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[QUOTE="Purple Haze, post: 2553076, member: 5843"]
From what I understand, it's not grades per se that keep the Six Nations kids from going right to a 4 year program, but rather it's the courses they take  at the school on the Six Nations reservation. I am by no means an expert on this, but I believe many of the classes they take there don't qualify as "core courses" in the US and therefore the kids aren't able to accumulate enough 'points' meet the NCAA eligibility standard.  You see this with the Syracuse football from time to time - great example is what happened to Marquis Blair a few years back( [URL="http://www.syracuse.com/orangefootball/index.ssf/2015/08/ncaa_syracuse_football_marquise_blair.html"]Coach rips NCAA for taking 6 weeks to deem Syracuse football signee Marquise Blair ineligible[/URL] ).

So that leaves many of the kids with two options: (1) they can transfer to a prep school like Salisbury, The Hill Academy or IMG ala the Bomberrys and Nanticoke (and oftentimes do a post grad year to accumulate enough eligibility points), or (2) they can go the JUCO route (ala Staats and Seth Oakes) in which case I believe they are committed for two years. There are some exceptions to the rules, but that's the gist of it.
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