According to the Post, that eligibility is no sure thing. The senior has improved a once woeful GPA to 2.0, just decimal points away from a cumulative average which would likely earn him admittance to at least one of the six BCS conference schools who have offered him a scholarship....

"I know for a fact a lot of kids in New York City couldn't have done what he's done," Hall family friend and basketball mentor Bernard Bowen told the Post. "A lot of people see he's a good ball player, but they don't know what he went through. Thaddeus has been to the bottom and back. I'm so proud of him. I hope he qualifies — he deserves it."