Sidney Decision
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plus, they got Sidney for the unethical conduct part.
IF the playing fields were equal, meaning both had a fair shot at presenting their case and the NCAA was acting in an unbiased and timely fashion in both cases, then the Sidney case and Wall case really aren't comparable and they deserved vastly different punishments. Sidney received $11k (granted, I'm sure this is very subjective) more than Wall and apparently he/family/Don Jackson lied or misled the investigators and slowed down the process by being unresponsive.
Whether that is true or not is a different matter, but ON PAPER, the NCAA can defend itself in the rulings. Except maybe the exhibition game portion - that is complete horseshit and I hope they get called out on that.
It would be nice to see what requests were made of the Wall family so we could compare that to Sidney. Their situations couldn't be entirely comparable, but I bet we could get a pretty good idea as to whether or not they wanted to nail one party and not the other based on what they were requesting. I'm thinking they simply just went through the motions with Wall just to give the appearance of policing his eligibility. He was cleared in virtually no time compared to Renardo. Renardo was likely given a much more detailed request of documentation and info that was not requested of John Wall.
The consipiracist in me says the NCAA had their preferred outcomes up front. They both came from shady AAU handlers. John Wall just plays for UK - simple as that.
IF the playing fields were equal, meaning both had a fair shot at presenting their case and the NCAA was acting in an unbiased and timely fashion in both cases, then the Sidney case and Wall case really aren't comparable and they deserved vastly different punishments. Sidney received $11k (granted, I'm sure this is very subjective) more than Wall and apparently he/family/Don Jackson lied or misled the investigators and slowed down the process by being unresponsive.
Whether that is true or not is a different matter, but ON PAPER, the NCAA can defend itself in the rulings. Except maybe the exhibition game portion - that is complete horseshit and I hope they get called out on that.
It would be nice to see what requests were made of the Wall family so we could compare that to Sidney. Their situations couldn't be entirely comparable, but I bet we could get a pretty good idea as to whether or not they wanted to nail one party and not the other based on what they were requesting. I'm thinking they simply just went through the motions with Wall just to give the appearance of policing his eligibility. He was cleared in virtually no time compared to Renardo. Renardo was likely given a much more detailed request of documentation and info that was not requested of John Wall.
The consipiracist in me says the NCAA had their preferred outcomes up front. They both came from shady AAU handlers. John Wall just plays for UK - simple as that.
I was pretty sure that they were going to have a pretty brutal suit filed against them regardless of the outcome. Now I'm pretty sure that they are going to get absolutely skull dragged in court by any half-competent attorney out there. To make it worse they have some idiotic PR people making statements about how this is about more than one student athlete and that the exhibition games won't count, and that John Wall's counted because they judge each case individually, etc.<div>
</div><div>All of that points to sloppy, sloppy, sloppy management that lends itself to discrimination (maybe not racial).</div><div>
</div><div>I know, I know, it is a private organization. There are plenty of private organizations that have been sued mightily for discriminatory practices. This has cost this young man millions of dollars already, and the 0.3 thing is making it even worse. I would not be one bit surprised to see them get a 8 figure judgement.</div>
</div><div>All of that points to sloppy, sloppy, sloppy management that lends itself to discrimination (maybe not racial).</div><div>
</div><div>I know, I know, it is a private organization. There are plenty of private organizations that have been sued mightily for discriminatory practices. This has cost this young man millions of dollars already, and the 0.3 thing is making it even worse. I would not be one bit surprised to see them get a 8 figure judgement.</div>
go play in Europe until he is ready for the NBA? He can make some money there and not have to deal with this screwed up system that is in place. I would.