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8 years 2 months ago #5310 by HawkErrant
ESPN: UNLV's Derrick Jones shocked by loss of eligibility

TIMELINE per the article

pre-JUNE 2015: Jones takes two ACT prep classes before taking the ACT

JUNE 2015: Jones maintains *he* took the ACT in Baltimore. Test results normally back within two weeks, four if the student opted to take the ACT with Writing.

JULY 2015: NCAA red-flagged Jones ("about eight months ago" per Jones' attorney), offered three possibilities: retaking the test, going to arbitration or throwing out the test score completely.

NOV 2015: Jones is cleared by the NCAA just before UNLV's first game.

MAR 2016: NCAA declares Jones ineligible after ACT cancels his test score.

Philly kid took test in Baltimore, ~100 miles, ~ 2 hours southwest.
That is suspicious in and of itself, but what else did the ACT have that led to it canning the kid's test scores? That information is suspiciously absent in the article.

Something stinks somewhere, that's for sure. :blink:

And if the young man is telling the truth, who set out to get him?

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8 years 2 months ago #5311 by HawkErrant
More on this story from the Las Vegas Review Journal

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"

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8 years 2 months ago #5318 by NotOstertag
This is a clear case where the NCAA needs to take responsibility. Just as they dragged their feet with Diallo, this case is similar, but much, much worse.

There appears to be exactly ZERO consistency of due process with the NCAA. Folks, this stuff shouldn't be that hard. If the NCAA cleared him and now wants to go back on that, THEY need to be raked over the coals.

How it should work:
1.) Inform recruits of the requirements and due dates to be eligible. If they meet them,
2.) Review their records with a deadline of determining eligibility by the time classes start.
3.) If the NCAA misses THEIR due date, the player is eligible.

Of course, this MIGHT force the NCAA to prioritize their investigations. I'm guessing 95% are probably a rubber stamp, no question deal. If the NCAA doesn't have enough people to get the job done, they need to funnel some of the huge piles of money they rake in to hiring enough people to do the job.

Short of the player intentionally hiding information, or keeping info from the NCAA, the player shouldn't be screwed.

By all appearances, the NCAA dropped the ball on this one, but they don't seem to want to take responsibility.

So corrupt.

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