One recent trend in college football has been the high school senior enrolling early for the spring semester. Quarterback Jimmy Clausen did it in his transition from Oaks Christian (Calif.) to Notre Dame in 2007. And some Naperville-area soccer players have made similar moves - Greg Jordan (Central/Creighton) and Brendan King (Benet/Florida's Edison Academic Center/Notre Dame) to name two. Apparently major college basketball has caught on to this trend, as Seattle Times columnist Bud Withers points out within this national notebook:
You've heard of high-school football seniors graduating early to get a jump on college academics and spring practice? Hollis Thompson, a 6-foot-6 forward from renowned De La Salle High in the Bay Area, was due to enroll Wednesday at Georgetown, where coach John Thompson III says he will practice but not play this season.
