This multi-billion dollar, non-profit organizing body of collegiate sports is more likely a watchdog of players that come along their way. Cheick Diallo was humiliated and annoyed by the N.C.A.A.'s long history of shameful investigations towards him.
Cheick Diallo, a player who was drafted from Mali by the National Collegiate Athletic Association four years ago is a Malian basketball player who currently attends the University of Kansas.
For months, the N.C.A.A failed to tell the university what the organizations problems were with Diallo, making the university turn over "new information" in a later date than expected.
The "new information" was about the schoolwork that Diallo had done at Our Savior New American School, a Christian academy/basketball mill on Long Island that the N.C.A.A. had placed "under review."
Because of this Diallo "received a limited amount of extra benefits" and therefore would have to sit out one more game. Diallo has already missed out four games this season and had to pay a fine of $165 to the charity of his choice to repay extra benefits he had received prior to suspension, this was implemented by the N.C.A.A. board for players.
Another player Kassoum Yakwe, the freshman forward for the St.John's Red Storm, was also cleared on Wednesday. The N.C.A.A didn't provide details of his discharge maybe because he received less publicity than the highly recruited Diallo of Kansas. He also had to pay $240 to repay his extra benefit. Nobody at St. John's has any idea what he supposedly did to violate the N.C.A.A.'s rules.
Matt Hayes of sporting news said, "This is the same organization that can't get out of its own way in court in any number of lawsuits, ongoing or pending." "The same organization that had a North Carolina work the investigation into the biggest academic fraud case in the history of college sports, one that was botched so badly.
