Does Clemson still actively recruit prep school players? I know we've signed several from Fork Union over the years and Phillip Merling is on staff there. Haven't seen anything, just curious.
I think this affected the prep school route that some kids could use to qualify. Old rule was you could take a core class again and replace the grade completely. New rule is you average the two. There was another rule change that affected it: the NQs count in the quota of initial counters or signees (don’t understand the difference fully), whereas they only counted when enrolled before. We signed a number of guys twice who became big-time - once out of HS, then the next year out of prep.
College and high school both adapted and prepare the kids a lot better to qualify. I think the kids who might have gone to prep 10 years ago would qualify immediately today.