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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 3014245, member: 2651"]
I just wanted to commend you for your maturity and level headedness as expressed in this post.  More than a few posters on this board could learn a thing or two from you.  The impulse to blame anyone and everyone is seductive, but you've stayed centered in your perspective.  Such thinking is a credit to you and your children are lucky to have such a father.

Bam can certainly correct me if I'm wrong, but I think people may be getting hung up on the wrong part of the internship thing.  As I'm understanding it (and again, correct me if i'm wrong), the NCAA doesn't particularly care about internship or whatever.  What the NCAA needs (for perfectly appropriate reasons) is progress toward earning the degree in every semester.  Because it seems like the internship was the only class that semester (?), not completing it meant not making any progress toward the degree for that semester.  Had Shy taken the internship along with another class that went toward earning the degree - and didn't finish the internship, but did get credit for the other class - he would have been considered making progress toward his degree and so long as the cumulative GPA was acceptable, would not have been ineligible.  But since all the eggs were in the internship basket, and the internship was not completed, it was as if Shy played football last fall as a college student without earning any credits.
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