Originally Posted by
94duke
A player for Southwestern College hit a half-court shot at an OKC Thunder game and won $20,000. NAIA originally said he would forfeit his amateur status if he kept the money. The college appealed, and all parties agreed he could keep the money as a scholarship. I guess that's better than not getting to keep the money at all.
I wonder what the NCAA would have done.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/col...lf-court-shot/
Easy. They would suspend the player until a formal decision. This formal decision would take 7 months, after which the player missed the entire season. The NCAA would comment that the player is suspended for another year because he wore his university-issued basketball shoes to the OKC game. Furthermore, they strip the school of 3 scholarships for supplying the remainder of the players with 2.4% more Gatorade than legally allowed.
Meanwhile, a film crew catches Calipari giving Karl Towns $100,000 in cash and courtside tickets to the Knicks. The NCAA comments that UK did nothing wrong because UK provided the money and tickets in an official NCAA-labeled envelope.
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