I haven't read through all the posts, I know that things have gotten a little heated about publicly discussing a recruits academic profile. Understood and appreciated. I'll speak in hypothetical terms here about an un-named recruit and pretend that this thread does not have a subject tag!
If recruit needs 9 core courses AT SJU, AS A STUDENT, to qualify for athletic competition during a red shirt year (to be ready in his sophomore year, 2013-14 with full eligibility for 4 years), he can easily do that. Is that what we're talking about, what he would have to do at SJU? He can accomplish that by taking the minimum full time class load of a full time student, which is 4 courses in the Fall 2012 term and 4 courses in the Spring 2013 term. That already takes him to 8 core courses. SJU has 3 summer sessions -- first a short & intense term of about 2 weeks in which he could take a course, a second summer term lasting a month in which he could take as many as 2 classes, an a third summer session lasting again about a month in which he could take an additional 2 courses if he chose to do so. That could be as many as 5 core courses even before the beginning of the Fall term when most students begin their studies. He wouldn't even have to work that hard, he could just do 2 summer courses and he'd easily have the remainder of the courses covered during the academic year.
If for whatever reason -- scholarship restrictions, NCAA, whatever -- the recruit could not begin taking summer classes, he can still take the MINIMUM LOAD over the course of the school year (8 core classes total) and knock off 1 core class during the school year during SJU's winter intercession. Very easy.
Of course I could be way of course here, the discussion could be about core courses he needs to have prior to coming to SJU.