Top Kansas incoming recruit not cleared due to amateurism questions

[Da Coach]

Josh Selby, who Rivals rated as the #1 overall prospect in the class of 2010, and was the top incoming recruit for Kansas, has not yet been cleared by the NCAA. Questions have arisen regarding his family's relationship with an agent and questions that they may have received illegal benefits during his recruitment.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/NCAA-looking-into-Josh-Selby-s-legitimacy-as-an-?urn=ncaab-260559

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/view/6271764

Kansas coach Bill Self seems to blow off this problem as some kind of routine that the NCAA goes through-- "it is not at all unusual for the NCAA to look into many of the country??™s top-rated recruits each year for any number of reasons".

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-kansas-selby

[tornado]

Josh Selby has finally been cleared -- but here's the deal --
The NCAA went incredibly soft on him -- they ruled all the cash he got were just "impermissible benefits" and not money from an agent prior to initial eligibility!!!

The NCAA rules that he received at least $5,757.58 in impermissible benefits...
so they have penalized him 9 games and he must repay the money...
(there is an appeal and Kansas is already asking the amount be reduced to $4,607.58 )

Now -- I suppose it really doesn't matter to me because it was a given all along that they were going to allow the kid to play -- after all this is Kansas -- and Kansas makes a lot of money for the NCAA..

But -- this is MONEY the kid got from professional agents. In fact, the agent in question is Carmelo Anthony's own personal business manager and agent!!! --- so it is exactly the same as the Enes Kanter case (Kentucky) and thus the kid should be declared a PROFESSIONAL athlete and should be barred from ever playing in college!
NCAA also just banned a couple North Carolina FB players for precisely the same thing!!

But...... considering the kid gets exactly the same penalty that POB got for inadvertently receiving a few hundred dollars....(suspended 30% of the games and must repay the money) this is a complete insult!
On top of that BU got hammered additionally with other penalties and probation for the POB incident, but of course Kansas U. ain't gonna get any penalty -- even though all their scandals and cheating keep happening while they are still on probation from the last time they got caught cheating!!

Let's face it -- if the NCAA found $5757 that this kid received in impermissible benefits, then there's probably $20,000 more they did NOT find -- and the kid got the money from pro agents...the same violation used for Marcus Canty, Howard Porter, and Enes Kanter -- so why is the kid not banned forever from college sports??

[tornado]

CBSSports' Gary Parrish agrees...this penalty is absolutely NOTHING --
so he's mockingly telling all the top recruits to go ahead and take the gifts and freebies the agents toss their way...

"..I've got some advice: Take improper benefits.

Seriously, just do it.

(Get it? Just Do It!)

Take flights and hotel rooms, cell phones and cash. Drive a nice car, get a
"recruiting advisor" who works with NBA players, grab your mother and tell
her to do it, too. More than likely, you won't get caught because, well, it's
just hard to prove these things. But even if you do get caught -- like Kansas
freshman Josh Selby got caught -- you'll merely be asked to repay a few
thousand dollars, and then you'll be reinstated before the start of league play.

The reward clearly outweighs the risk."

it's compared to robbing a bank, then living the life of luxury all along on the money you got illegally, then in the end, when your fun is over, just repay some of the money and all is forgiven!!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/14325013

[tornado]

Here's an interesting assessment on Kansas' Bill Self on how he's coached and dealt with top freshman, Josh Selby
"To put it simply: when it comes to Josh Selby, Bill Self has done the worst
job he possibly could have done. Bill Self has a player that illustrated his
ability to play at this level??”and excel??”in his first game of the year, and now
has a player that he can??™t even play a single minute in the second half of the
final regular season game of the year. Self, evidently, recruited a player that
either didn??™t fit the offense, or couldn??™t be made to."

http://metrowirekc.com/newsletters/2011/03/07/metrowirekc-with-nick-wright-despite-accolades-bill-selfs-coaching-of-josh-selby-worst-job-possible/