You can thank all the misdeeds of the past in terms of getting kids cleared to play and ready for collegiate level work for Alfy's predicament.
People have taken tests for student athletes, people have forged academic records, taken classes for them, so on and so forth in the history of collegiate sports. Alfy is caught up in a bureaucratic mess because of others misdeeds in the past. I would imagine he's a fairly innocent bystander.
But, I'll sort of play the devil's advocate here....If he did originally qualify, that doesn't mean that the NCAA doesn't have the duty to inspect those records, even after the fact. You don't get a mulligan if they let you in conditionally, or even on a pending basis. It turns out in this case, that once the records search was done, things didn't match up. No dice. And it's too late for him to turn it around for 2010, so why keep him 500 miles from home at his family's expense when he could head back there to ECU and take classes and maybe walk on and stay in playing shape at that University?
This is a case where I blame the NCAA, and then I forgive them at the same time, because they are not a big enough organization to have the resources to comb through each and every student-athletes' education records, one at a time.
