sportswizuhrd;705575 wrote:Sounds like it was stuff that happened in HS with his mom and Baylor is appealing the decision saying they really had nothing to do with it. I heard this during the pre-game of the Baylor/OU game.
Yes. The OC's favorite sports website (Yahoo!) had an interesting column about this.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news;_ylt=AuXaDViLFW_9us5EJWg9qnDevbYF?slug=jn-jonesncaa031011
If quarterback Terrelle Pryor wouldn’t have played, Ohio State’s victory over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl would’ve been a mammoth television ratings bust.
But if Baylor basketball star Perry Jones is relegated to the bench, people are still going to watch the NCAA tournament.
Perhaps that explains why the NCAA allowed Pryor and five teammates to compete in the postseason even though they blatantly – and knowingly – violated NCAA eligibility rules by selling Buckeyes memorabilia to the owner of a Columbus tattoo parlor.
And maybe it explains why the NCAA deemed Jones ineligible Wednesday after an investigation revealed that his mother accepted – and then repaid – a loan from his AAU coach to help pay rent. Jones had no knowledge of the loans, which totaled around $1,000 and were made when he was in high school.
Good gosh, NCAA.
Jones and his family don’t look bad in all of this.
You do.
As if knowing all the rules and doing the right thing 100 percent of the time isn’t already tough enough for a 16-year-old, Jones was apparently responsible for his mothers’ actions, too.
Unbelievable.
The father of Auburn quarterback Cam Newton solicited money from school’s for his son’s services, but Newton wasn’t held out Auburn’s BCS title game against Oregon because the NCAA deemed that he “didn’t know” that his father had made those demands during his recruitment.
Well, Jones “didn’t know” about the loan provided to his mother. But suddenly that doesn’t matter.
Did the NCAA seriously think that people wouldn’t notice the double-standard here?
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