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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 1447187, member: 469"] [URL]http://www.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./college/syracuse/story/1572501-breaking-blair-denied-admission-by-ncaa[/URL] Free Article.. Marquise Blair, Syracuse's top ranked 2015 signee, has been denied admission by the NCAA and is forced to go the junior college route. [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=7596876'][U]Marquise Blair[/U][/URL] has been denied admission to [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./'][U]Syracuse[/U][/URL] by the NCAA, Wooster High head coach Doug Haas has informed CuseNation.com. The NCAA has been reviewing his academics since June, and made they did not accept some of the courses he took during his senior year. Those same courses were good enough for Wooster High and the state of Ohio in order to graduate, but the NCAA did not accept them. ”We put together a plan for Marquise and he executed it flawlessly,” Haas said. “Unfortunately in the NCAA’s eyes, they did not meet their course requirements.” Because the NCAA determined that Blair was five credits short of becoming eligible within the clearing house. Because of that, Blair cannot go the prep school route and now has to find a junior college. Because of NCAA rules, that means he has to graduate from junior college before he can enroll through the NCAA. According to coach Haas, this could be done in 18 months and allow him to enroll in January of 2018. The ruling came down from the NCAA on August 6th, according to coach Haas and Blair has been scrambling to find a junior college ever since. As of Monday afternoon, he was still searching for a landing spot. Since the NCAA took as long as they did, over two months, it leaves Blair in a difficult situation regarding his junior college prospects. Most of them have already started training camp or are in the process of doing so this week. He has to find a school willing to add him to their program very late in the game. Blair was Syracuse’s lone four-star prospect in the 2015 class and was an academic risk when he signed. He worked hard during his final two years of high school to make up for previous struggles. Unfortunately, the NCAA did not reward those efforts. Blair previously told CuseNation.com that even if the NCAA denied his admission, he would still be “all Syracuse.” Coach Haas confirmed that Syracuse will continue to recruit him. However, due to the NCAA ruling, Blair’s recruiting process now opens back up. The news leaves Syracuse with safeties [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=8706791'][U]Rodney Williams[/U][/URL], [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=8706778'][U]Chauncey Scissum[/U][/URL] and [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=8706728'][U]Antwan Cordy[/U][/URL] as likely contributors. True freshmen [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=8757466'][U]Christopher Fredrick[/U][/URL], [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=8757464'][U]Kielan Whitner[/U][/URL] and [URL='http://syracuse.At their request, this network is being blocked from this site./a.z?s=185&p=8&c=1&nid=8757461'][U]Daivon Ellison[/U][/URL] are also in the mix. Blair was expected to crack the two-deep and contribute during his freshman campaign. [/QUOTE]

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