Deron,
 
I was thinking the exact same thing and someone posted a similar
question a few months ago. I'll try to post what I remeber the answer to
be.
 
I believe that this fell under the guidlines of the school in question, in this
case it would be BU. Supposely, BU's policy on incompletes would
determine if he could play. LaCouture has a certain period of time to make
up these imcompletes and, during this period, he could continue to play.
 
However, I don't buy this policy at all. Think about the possibility of
abuse. Anytime a players at BU were doing poorly, an excuse could be
manufactured to get him out of school for two or three games over
winter break so he could contine playing the Spring semester.
 
that's the way I remeber what someone else posted. Please feel free to
correct me.
 
>>> Deron Treadwell <[log in to unmask]> 01/16/97 04:32pm
>>>
At 10:22 AM 1/16/97 EST, Dave Hendrickson wrote:
 
>I reported this in my USCHO Weekly Games Preview last week.
Although he and
>Poti both returned from the World Junior Tournament, LaCouture was
not
>eligible to play until he resumed classes.  That happened this past
Monday,
>so he is now eligible and will play this weekend.
 
What I'm curious to know, and perhaps Dave or someone else close to
the
Boston University athletic department can elaborate on, is how a player,
in
this case LaCouture, can apparently take incompletes in all his classes,
and
still be eligible to play the next semester?
 
Please fill me in if I am missing something, but he left school with weeks
left in the semester meaning he either failed all those classes (in which
case he'd clearly be ineligible) or he took incompletes.
 
What is the criteria for a player to make up those incompletes?  In a
technical sense one would think that the player would have to make up
the
incompletes before he could be eligible, especially when it includes all the
student's classes.
 
Another possible explaination I just thought of might be that perhaps his
whole semester was thrown out.  Sometimes students with exceptional
circumstances are allowed to have a semester wiped out and then
allowed to
re-enroll in school.
 
It would appear that the latter is the case here, because I can't imagine
someone with a full load of incompletes from the semester before would
be
eligible to play.
 
Hopefully there are people out there who can answer these questions.
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