Iowa State player ruled ineligible

[tornado]

Decatur.....as far back as Ewe Blab, there have been European kids coming to the US to play ball in hopes of making a career of it, but back then, Ewe came well before he finished high school, he obviously had good credentials and age documentation, as he had to satisfy even the strict IHSA requirements, and he also played a lot of regular high school ball qualifying the "old fashioned way" by coming through a well established foreign exchange program, graduating a regular high school, and getting good test scores.

So is this what the Euro kids are going to have to do?

By the way, we have also discussed Vince Polakovic who actually played two years of college ball before the NCAA caught up with him and deemed him ineligible, and Germaine Raffington, both of whom were also Greg McDermott recruits like Lucca.

One last question...
there has been recent talk of getting up to FIVE NBA teams started up in Europe.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6964

Will this help those European kids, as they might have a little better shot at getting seen since the continent will have a whole lot more NBA-type people and scouts.

 

[FarmerClone]

The pace at which the NCAA is reviewing these cases is ludicrous. A member of the Cyclone Report cite noted back when Lucca was suspended that he did a simple internet search of some foreign born NCAA freshman can came up with several instances where the players were members of similar teams like Lucca. One of them was Dougas Balbay, who has not been playing this year due to injury, but would have been playing up until the NCAA decided a week ago that he would have to sit games. How on earth can a Cyclone fan use Google and find these players months before the NCAA? And why on earth is the NCAA cracking down on kids that were not paid but played on a team where people were paid extremely small amounts instead of cracking down on things like blatant abuses of rules like USC football players getting perks, etc? It is ridiculous and retarded. I understand the concept behind the rule, but shouldn't it also be required that a player have knowingly and maliciously intended to break the rule? Lucca technically did something illegal, but I have no idea how on earth he was supposed to know that his teammates were being paid when he was not.

 

[Decatur]

Decatur.....as far back as Ewe Blab, there have been European kids coming to the US to play ball in hopes of making a career of it, but back then, Ewe came well before he finished high school, he obviously had good credentials and age documentation, as he had to satisfy even the strict IHSA requirements, and he also played a lot of regular high school ball qualifying the "old fashioned way" by coming through a well established foreign exchange program, graduating a regular high school, and getting good test scores.

So is this what the Euro kids are going to have to do?

By the way, we have also discussed Vince Polakovic who actually played two years of college ball before the NCAA caught up with him and deemed him ineligible, and Germaine Raffington, both of whom were also Greg McDermott recruits like Lucca.

One last question...
there has been recent talk of getting up to FIVE NBA teams started up in Europe.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6964

Will this help those European kids, as they might have a little better shot at getting seen since the continent will have a whole lot more NBA-type people and scouts.

I suppose they will start having to do it that way, but the bottom line is that the max penalty at the time Lucca played for that team was 20% of one season. Had he known the consequences of playing for such a team, he probably would have done something differently. The NCAA needed to forward the new consequences to European coaches 2 or 3 years prior to the penalty change so that these players would be aware that they'd have to sit out an entire year if any player on their team recieved money.

I can't remember the name for it, but here in America it is illegal to punish someone for a crime that wasn't illegal at the time they commited it. You can't make jay-walking illegal on Thursday, and write up Jimmy for Jay-walking on Wednesday.


5 NBA teams in Europe seems like it would be awfully hard on the players having to travel to those European games. I suppose we'll see if it actually happens, but it seems unlikely to me in the near future. And yeah, I'm sure that would help with future cases like Lucca's and Mario's, but that still doesn't change the fact that the two of them got screwed.