WRAL: NCAA appeal denied: Braxton Beverly won't play for NCSU this season
Why is this important? Why should you care? Why is Alum taking up valuable Miami week real estate during the Miami week for a discussion about NC State basketball?
All valid questions, so let me give a little bit of background here.
Beverly originally committed to Ohio State for this most recent recruiting class. As part of this, he enrolled into Ohio State early to try and get ahead on some classes before the school year, to get a leg up academically. Then, on June 5th, Thad Matta was fired, and as fallout, Beverly decided to transfer to play for a school where he was more confident the coaching staff's ability to make him better. He had yet to participate in a single practice with Ohio State before transferring to NC State. Ohio State goes out of its way to help him obtain every waiver he needed to transfer smoothly to NCSU, they void his LOI to allow him to play immediately, and it doesn't matter. The NCAA declares him ineligible because he took classes at anOSU.
Flash forward to the appeal. Thad Matta personally writes to the appellate board with the NCAA that he was the reason for the mess at Ohio State and Beverly should not be punished for what happened. Ohio State, on behalf of Beverly and NCSU urges the NCAA to allow Beverly to play this year. Doesn't matter, the ban is upheld, and he cannot suit up for the Wolfpack this season.
Mind you, this is going on at the exact same time they cleared UNC of all charges because their fake classes were available to all students, and not just athletes. In fact, Beverly's original ruling of ineligibility came out on the same day as when UNC was cleared.
And to think, Mark Emmert comes out today and says the general public is losing its confidence in the NCAA. I friggen wonder why.
Remember, if Beverly had just screwed around all summer playing video games like a regular teenager after graduating high school, none of this would be a problem, but because he had initiative to actually make an effort academically, he's not allowed to play this year.
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It's nice to see that the NCAA has once again determined that the word student in student athlete means literally nothing.
Here's how the NCAA handles appeal letters that they receive...
unless you are Mountain Jesus.
Lol. This was the live feed of the findings from the UNC investigation being faxed into NCAA headquarters.
That is a) hilarious and b) an extremely impressive gif, just all the way around, getting the paper to fall directly into the shredder, and then setting it up to loop basically seamlessly.
I know, right?
Wait, what?
I wish I could bet on the NCAA never making the right decision. I could retire tomorrow.
NCAA could be deciding between curing every form of pediatric cancer or killing puppies, and they'd be like, "we just got this really nice white carpet, so..."
NCAA will probably have to be involved in SY's case back to VT as well...
He should have just signed up for some sham classes at UNC and he'd be fine.
You have integrity, then you have NCAA integrity. (No relation)
That said, when are these colleges going to band together and tell NCAA to take a hike?
I'm sure that probably had a little to do with the UNC decision. A program with a strong enough history and large enough fan base that it could have been the tipping point. If UNC tells the NCAA to fuck off, would Duke follow? Could they get other big time basketball schools or ACC school to band together? Who knows.
Well you know
I wonder if there is anything where the schools or conferences can have a vote of no confidence in the NCAA/ Emmert and get some changes