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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 1432000, member: 285"]
I found reference to an eligibility requirement that existed a few years ago (may still be a requirement) that required kids to complete 16 core courses in high school.   It further require that those core courses be completed within 8 semesters (4 years) of the time the kid entered ninth grade.   I'm not sure whether they actually had to graduate within 4 years of entering 9th grade or just complete the core courses within that time frame.   I think it might also have been permissible to complete one in the final summer after the 8 semesters were complete (before entry), but to do this you had to be graduating with your class.

I assume this rule was intended to gauge a kid's ability to complete course work on a pace that would suggest he would be capable of completing college course work on a pace that would allow him to meet continuing eligibility (progress) requirements.     Completing the core courses at a slower pace, say one a year over 16 years isn't nearly as rigorous as completing four a year (which in reality isn't particularly rigorous either).

With Diagne and Chino transferring to U.S. schools after they had already begun secondary school in their home country, they could have violated this rule.    Also very possible that no one realizes this until very very late in the game because they probably place the kids on enrolling in the U.S. schools according to entry exams rather than based on any NCAA requirement.
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