Iowa State player ruled ineligible

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More on Lucca Staiger and his NCAA mandated loss of one year

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071029/SPORTS020604/710290317/1003/SPORTS&lead=1

But I can see why the rule exists.
If. let's say, some American AAU players are paid $$, making them professionals, then how can you be sure the other AAU players, especially on the same team, are not getting the benefit of that money....who is going to police it, and if it is allowed wouldn't every kid playing AAU ball then want to be on the teams who are paying the most players the most money?? This is a no-brainer...it has to be policed, and this is exactly what the NCAA is trying to do.
I feel bad for Staiger, but I fully understand why the rule is there.

[Da Coach]

Here is a preseason report on future BU opponent Iowa State--

http://www.timesrepublican.com/Sports/articles.asp?articleID=14500

[FarmerClone]

More on Lucca Staiger and his NCAA mandated loss of one year

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071029/SPORTS020604/710290317/1003/SPORTS&lead=1

But I can see why the rule exists.
If. let's say, some American AAU players are paid $$, making them professionals, then how can you be sure the other AAU players, especially on the same team, are not getting the benefit of that money....who is going to police it, and if it is allowed wouldn't every kid playing AAU ball then want to be on the teams who are paying the most players the most money?? This is a no-brainer...it has to be policed, and this is exactly what the NCAA is trying to do.
I feel bad for Staiger, but I fully understand why the rule is there.

I understand that the NCAA does not want to allow "pros" to play as amateurs, but why does playing on a team WITH some people getting paid make him a pro? To me the status of professional versus amateur should be based on the individual not any team affiliations. If you do not take pay for your efforts, you are an amateur. Guilt by association just does not work for me.

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Iowa State is very short on guards for their exhibition game tonight and will start at point guard
Bryan Peterson, a junior college transfer/walk on...it'll be interesting...

[FarmerClone]

Iowa State is very short on guards for their exhibition game tonight and will start at point guard
Bryan Peterson, a junior college transfer/walk on...it'll be interesting...

Peterson is a very heady player and had a very solid two years at Kirkwood. He and Diante Garrett will battle hard for minutes at the point and in the end, Garrett will win the starting spot and get the lion's share of minutes IMO. ISU is in a unique situation where we have two JUCO transfer walk ons in Bryan Peterson and Sean Haluska, both of which had D1 offers, and both will play big roles for ISU this year. Due to player attrition, both have now been givn scholarships for this year.

Peterson played only 10 minutes tonight, but had 4 assists and zero turnovers which is what Greg is looking for - a point guard to run the offense and not make mistakes.

Garrett had 3 points, 3 assists, 4 rebounds and one steal in 15 minutes.

Brackins had 10 points, 6 rebounds, 4 blocks, 1 assist and no turnovers in 16 minutes.

All in all, nothing flashy from ISU tonight as they won 66-38 over Dubuque. We need Jiri Hubalek back off his injury and I really hope Lucca gets cleared because we could use him badly.

[tornado]

More news out of Iowa State.......

Senior Center Jiri Hubalek is returning from a broken bone in his foot. He worked out this week and is doing pretty well. He should be dressed this weekend for Iowa State's first game but I'll bet coach will be pretty careful using him if he isn't needed.

A report from the Ames, IA Tribune, on their web page GoCyclones.com,
says that freshman Clayton Vette is a redshirt candidate as is Texas guard Charles Boozer, although the shortage of guards will probably mean Boozer will play.
But McDermott says he has talked with Vette about it and is "50-50 on it" and will decide by Friday.
Vette is a 6-9 freshman, and in the Cyclones' two exhibition games he 2-9, avg. 4ppg, and was low man in minutes allotted among scholarship players.

Iowa State plays at Bradley next Wednesday. Three of the top 6 in minutes played in the game last season against BU are no longer with the team (Mike Taylor, Dodie Dunson, Cory McIntosh) and the likely starting lineup this year will include Hubalek & Johnson as the only familiar faces, and with only six day more to heal, we may not see a lot of Hubalek.

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Sounds like even Coach McDermott isn't optimistic about the final decision on Lucca Staiger
“It’s in their hands,” Iowa State basketball coach Greg McDermott said Tuesday.
“We’ll wait and see. My mind tells me one thing. My heart hopes my mind is wrong.”

http://www.ottumwacourier.com/iowasports/local_story_312151124.html

[FarmerClone]

Sounds like even Coach McDermott isn't optimistic about the final decision on Lucca Staiger
???It??™s in their hands,??? Iowa State basketball coach Greg McDermott said Tuesday.
???We??™ll wait and see. My mind tells me one thing. My heart hopes my mind is wrong.???
http://www.ottumwacourier.com/iowasp...312151124.html

If it comes down to hoping the NCAA does the right thing for the student athlete than I am not optimistic either. Texas freshman Dougas Balbay played on a team with professionals in Turkey and I have not seen the NCAA had him down a penalty yet. The NCAA will not overturn their suspension for Lucca, they just won't.

[tornado]

Clone...nobody knows better how the NCAA picks certain fights and nails them hard than the Bradley fans do.

[FarmerClone]

You may be right tornado, but ISU definitely has garnered it's fair share of kicks in the nutts from the NCAA. Two years ago prize recruit Theo Davis was declared ineligible for entry to ISU by the NCAA. After spending a year at one of the NCAA recognized sham schools Philadelphia Lutheran, he magically then qualifies to play for Gonzaga.

About a decade ago, ISU had one of the top recruiting classes in the nation and in it was CJ Bruton, an Australian that was set to be our stud point guard for the early Fizer years I believe. The NCAA ruled he had received too much compensation for meals and travel when playing for a team in Australia and declared him ineligible. He went on to be drafted in the NBA without having played D1 ball and ISU had to play some really poor point guards.

I know we are not along in the hose jobs, but it gets really old watching the USC's of the world blatantly getting away with having payers get paid and then watching the NCAA screw a kid like Lucca. It makes me sick.

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A little followup on Iowa State's Lucca Staiger:

"Iowa State freshman guard Lucca Staiger is still awaiting a decision from the NCAA concerning his eligibility this season.

"Last week there was a fire in the NCAA building so they closed their doors for two days,'' Iowa State coach Greg McDermott said today. "It happened to be when they were working on Lucca Staiger's case. That's kind of the way things have gone.''

The NCAA's museum and headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind., were closed for a day after Wednesday's small fire, apparently caused by an electrical problem. Some exhibits at the NCAA Hall of Champions sustained water damage from sprinklers, according to the Associated Press.

"What are the odds of that?'' McDermott said. "It's almost comical.''

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/SPORTS020604/71119008/0/SPORTS020604

[FarmerClone]

A little followup on Iowa State's Lucca Staiger:

"Iowa State freshman guard Lucca Staiger is still awaiting a decision from the NCAA concerning his eligibility this season.

"Last week there was a fire in the NCAA building so they closed their doors for two days,'' Iowa State coach Greg McDermott said today. "It happened to be when they were working on Lucca Staiger's case. That's kind of the way things have gone.''

The NCAA's museum and headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind., were closed for a day after Wednesday's small fire, apparently caused by an electrical problem. Some exhibits at the NCAA Hall of Champions sustained water damage from sprinklers, according to the Associated Press.

"What are the odds of that?'' McDermott said. "It's almost comical.''
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pb...0/SPORTS020604

Such is the life of a Cyclone fan. We could sure use Staiger for tomorrow as we get ready to face Minnesota likely playing gain without Wes Johnson. Without Staiger and Johnson we are missing two of our top four scoring threats. By the time we get them back, we may have lost too many games to make a run at any postseason tourney hopes. We have UNI, Drake, Iowa and Oregon State all coming up after Minnesota.

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With the experience we've had here at BU I can suggest you should
put too much faith in getting any help or consideration from the NCAA.

[amckillip]

With the experience we've had here at BU I can suggest you should
put too much faith in getting any help or consideration from the NCAA.

Well, they are a BCS team, that counts for something...

[DUBulldog]

The Des Moines Register had some more info about the Staiger situation....sorry for no link, but for some reason I can't bring up the Register's website at work.

Anyway, apparently one of McDermott's former UNI recruits, Vince Polakovic, who is now at San Francisco was also penalized 20+ games by the NCAA for playing on the same team in Germany that Staiger did. It turns out there were a couple of professional players on that team.....both of whom (coincidentally?) had been former players for McDermott at UNI....Jon Godfread and Ben Jacobson.