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Look Ma. No grades.
Seriously sad ! Coach just found out about this? Sad
That is pretty sad. Curious to what the violation was.
If the story comes out at all it will probably be on the Vanderbilt baseball website or The Tennessean website. There wasn't an explanation in either place as of late this afternoon.
From two hours ago ...
I'm wondering where the coaching staff and compliance office is with this? It is the players responsibility but there should be oversight by the coaching staff and compliance office especially about academics & grades. There has to be more to this. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
It could very well be he was borderline and had to do extremely well on finals. Sometimes grades take a long time to get in.To automatically jump on coaching staff or compliance is a little too early and judgmental at this point. Sometimes a kid just has a bad semester. And to those who will thrash this kid if it turns out to be grades shame on you. You never have had a rough time with something? And if it turns out to be something else then we are all guilty of jumping the gun and not knowing. That is why the penalty for not meeting the GPA threshold is ineligibility. The rule has spoken if that is the case.
Oldmanmoses is correct. I know kids who were taking finals during regionals and supers and sometimes it takes awhile for grades to get officially posted. Happens a lot in football but season is over and they have another semester to get grades back in line. I don't know if this is the case with him or not but Vandy is a tough school and playing baseball at their level and competing in the classroom is not easy.
Every program I have familiarity with monitors grades on a continual basis. I am sure the coaching staff was well aware of the situation.
To set the record straight, I'm not suggesting there is any wrong doing here. I'm suggesting the coaching staff, and compliance office had to know in advance their was a risk here based on historical info at the school, possibly his major at the school, and the classes the athlete was taking at the time.
I realize grades don't always get there on time....heck my son's official grades weren't completed until 2 weeks after he graduated. He actually wrote a letter to the Dean. I'm not sure what these professors were doing during that two weeks, but I have some ideas. His new employer was waiting for the official transcripts before they would issue him laptop and security badge. In the case of the Vandy athlete, I'm asserting there was knowledge ahead of time that this was a possibility. I feel bad for the guy, but those are the NCAA rules everybody (in theory) plays by.
Why the focus on grades here? As far as I can see, the reason for ineligibility hasn't been disclosed. Besides, staying eligible for post season competition between terms is relatively easy:
14.1.9.2 Eligibility for Postseason Competition—Between Terms. To be eligible to compete in a post-season event (e.g., conference tournament, bowl game, National Invitation Tournament, NCAA championship) that occurs between regular terms (including summer) a student-athlete shall have satisfactorily completed six semester or six quarter hours of academic credit during the preceding regular academic term of full-time enrollment (see Bylaw 14.4.3.1).
This sounds like a nefarious plot by those evil Texas Longhorns. 
I have no idea what the young man has done as 3fingered as also hinted to above.
And correct me if I am wrong, seriously. But doesn't the NCAA prohibit college professors from having any kind of contact with the school's various Coach's, and considers it a violation if they do? So if that is the case then it really is hard for any coach to be "in the know" of his or her's athletes grades or what is needed to be done to pass or be eligible. Yes, they can have tutors and study halls and interact personally with the athletes but, then you are only able to take them at their word what or where they're at in class or their grades. It's an honor system based on trust and word of mouth.
If I am missing something or stated anything incorrectly then I apologize, but I thought this was the case now thus, why many coach's really ARE caught off guard at times when they hear of their player(s) being ineligible. Now if it was something legal or criminal, that's another ball of was we're talking about.
YGD