You basically asked if a kid doesn’t make it to campus, does it cost him a year of eligibility or a redshirt year.
If the kid isn’t enrolled in school, isn’t taking part in any basketball activities with the team, and not even in the country for Pete’s sake, why would you think it could possibly cost him a year of eligibility. Again if the kid didn’t make it to Iowa until 2025 he would still have 4 years of eligibility assuming he maintained his amateur status, ie wasn’t getting paid by anyone anywhere to play basketball. Aka not a professional basketball player.
Im 35 and graduated college in 09 and as far as I know I would hypothetically still have 4 years of college sports eligibility left.
Apologies for calling it a stupid question if you are uninformed about how college sports eligibility works.
Hopefully this clears things up for you regarding the English recruit.
But telling people to stfu or gtfo, on an anonymous message board isn’t gonna get you anywhere, except worthless back and forth arguments, that don’t get anyone anywhere.