Cheick Diallo Cleared to Play by NCAA
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I'm really curious how this would have gone for Iowa State. Likely not well as you stated.
2 years in a row of having a star KU recruit sitting at the end of the bench with a blank spaced out look on their face was too much for the NCAA to bear.
When you put it like this, kind of, yeah:
"Kansas is going to run away with the league title this year"
When you say a team is going to run away with it, that implies we don't even have a shot. THAT IS PESSIMISTIC in a nutshell.
is this tuco's twitter?
https://twitter.com/pjsaturday63
"Phil Nelson @pjsaturday63 18h18 hours ago
It's clear that the 2 best point guards in the Big 12 are both on the Kansas roster. Mason and Graham are dominant"
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Every NCAA ruling in the last umpteen years for a punishment for extra benefits included the amount received, since the NCAA policy regarding extra benefits states that the player would have to pay that amount to a charity of their choice as part of their punishment. Amazingly, there is no mention of such a punishment.
NCAA just trying to save face on the fact that it dropped the ball on Diallo's academic record in choosing to not count many of his courses as core classes despite the fact that they HAD counted them as core classes for other athletes from the same school who had taken the same classes in years prior. They even commented on the fact that they used the work of the outside party that KU hired to review the records. Not a coincidence that they ruled on St. John's Yakwe at virtually the same time.
Glad this whole mess is over and the young man can play. Sad I won't be able to make his first game but I look forward to seeing what he brings to the team.
I think it is much more likely that benefits were significant and the NCAA doesn't want to have it compared to cases like the one in the link below. Recruiting is a dirty business and schools like Kansas are used to just seeing the NCAA go through the motions, but the Cliff Alexander case forced the NCAA to actually do more than just rubber stamping a KU recruit
http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=527715
Starting to leak out around KU that the "extra benefits" was $165 worth of food purchased by the guardian for Diallo to eat while he was living with him and that it was an impermissible benefit because the paperwork to be his legal guardian hadn't been filed but not finalized in court yet.
lol @ starting to leak out. By KU fans I take it. I guarantee that's not it. How do you prove that someone bought him food from who knows how long ago? NCAA going through Diallo's garbage?
Now confirmed. The guardian self reported it to the ncaa. It wasn't for food, though:
"At the time, Diallo had already started the process of making Drame his guardian, though the paperwork had not been completed. Examples of the benefits, according to Jackson, included paying a cell-phone bill and providing travel, which included giving Diallo a ride to Walmart."
http://cjonline.com/sports/hawkzone...ets-5-game-suspension-165-worth-impermissible
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