I am all for helping kids and putting the best teams on the floor, etc., but if they enroll him in 12 hours of half-semester courses to get him eligible for the whole season that is getting pretty close to UNC standards. I don't know if you went to college but for me 12 hours of regular classes was tough, 15 hours was a full-time job. 12 hours of half-semester would be the equivalent of taking 24 hours of regular classes. I remember when someone would take a load like that when I was in school it was a front-page story in the campus newspaper on the genius trying to graduate in two years. If you add to that full-time basketball, and a kid going to college in a new country in something other than his native language...it is just stupid. If he is good enough to go to the NBA a year out of HS there are opportunities in other countries or USA developmental leagues. The NBA will find him if he is 7' and good. If he is a four-year project, then let him sit a semester, enroll in January and red shirt. Little is lost for him or the team. If not getting him in the back door with some 12-hour half-semester classwork load that is made to be easy with tutors taking his tests will result in him going somewhere else...let him go. UNC loves this sort of mess, and UK shouldn't mess with it.