All you need to know about how we recruit is reading yet another story of a highly recruited prospect (by everybody else) who states that they "grew up a K-State fan" and then the story goes on to say something like, "But I haven't heard from K-State . . .".
In terms of Carridine . . . 42, your mission is to ensure that he has a 2.0 GPA . . . absolutely nothing better, a 2.0 GPA, with a couple of D's in core courses, but a 2.0 GPA and the right hours to graduate.