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A trained monkey could have completed an investigation by now. This pocket veto nonsense that the NCAA continues to pull is an embarrassment and eventually some court is going to call the NCAA on it and blow the whole thing up.

LOL. This makes no sense at all. All this time and Tristan, the Man in question, Myck and his brother have all responed and I am guessing showed all bank account info and NCAA still can't figure it out. This is just the NCAA showing it has power even though there is nothing to find. How hard is it to follow the money trail?

Yeah this is a joke. At least let the kid play until you come up with a ruling. This is the opposite of "innocent until proven guilty."

Leaving an availability with Barnes. Jaylen Bond will also miss the game. He injured his right ankle on Tuesday.

Uh oh

While I agree with the idea of letting him play until something is proven, the "innocent until proven guilty" is really only a legal concept that is valid within the confines of the courtroom. As other posters have said, it certainly appears to be a case of the NCAA dragging its feet because it can.

Also, Barnes said their timetable for when they think they'll hear from the NCAA is "today or tomorrow".

We'll see if that happens, but it would definitely be welcomed to find out exactly how long they're going to be without their PG.

Yeah, Barnes has been really high on Bond in the few times we've gotten to talk to him leading up to this season.

Called him the best rebounded on the team today.

"We're going to have to have someone, or as a group, be able to take care of [rebounding], because that's the one thing he brings. He's tough and a tough-minded player. He's improved so much since last year and has had a great fall, and it's just tough that it happened. It just happened because he plays hard."

To be clear, it's the combination of the NCAA intentionally dragging its feet and then instituting punishment retroactively that is the problem. The NCAA should have x days from when a school self reports (and "x" can change depending on the issue) to finalize a ruling. If the NCAA doesn't in that time, the student should be able to play with no threat of retroactive punishment to the team.

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Hopefully no one against this delay was in favor of the Penn State penalties. Once you give a crap bag organization more power, you deserve what you get.

Its a power play by an inept group of bureaucrats. The rules are imposed in a completely arbitrary fashion. Hopefully no one is naive enough to think that any kid trying to decide whether or not to turn pro or come back to college hasn't sought advise outside of his head coach; and if he knows anyone playing pro ball, that advise probably is being made by someone in the business. The NCAA knows this. At this point; its just a power trip by micro-phallic NCAA bureaucrats. They fully know that Myck had a professional make a few calls to find out where he would be drafted and how much he would be paid; but they also know that no NBA is going to corroborate that.

The main issue is who paid for the trip. There is absolutely no question about that. . The NCAA is pretty sure that the agent did and they probably are correct; but Tristan has given cover to Myck and the NCAA is having a snit. Like any little bureaucratic piss-ant; they are going to drag their feet as long as they can.