NCAA screws over Michigan basketball and Aaliya

Submitted by St Joe Blues on February 5th, 2024 at 8:44 AM

Per the agent who was helping Lee Aaliya navigate the international student maze, the NCAA totally screwed Michigan basketball and Juwan Howard:

https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2024/02/how-the-ncaa-got-in-the-way-of-michigan-signing-international-commit.html

The agent who helped him in his attempt to gain NCAA eligibility is livid.

“The issue is the massive hypocrisy of the NCAA,” Alex Saratsis told MLive. “The NCAA, for whatever reason, screwed this kid out of an opportunity to play college basketball.”

The short story is Aaliya received a cost-of-living stipend from the club he played with in Argentina, totaling $900 over 10 months. The NCAA investigated his "amateur" status and determined that he had to repay $1,155. But they made the determination too late for Aaliya to enroll for the winter term. Financially, he wasn't able to survive until next fall, so he chose to play overseas.

While much of the criticism of Juwan Howard may be warranted, he's also been flying into many headwinds, between the NCAA, Michigan's own admissions department and one-and-dones.

FYI - The agent referred to is not acting as a professional agent. My wife runs an international HS student program. All of the kids she places come through agencies who help these kids navigate the gov't and school requirements.

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SDCran

February 5th, 2024 at 1:51 PM ^

"He received financial offers “for way more” at other schools"

Unless we are talking about being on a partial scholarship, what does this sentence mean?   Isn't this what the NIL violations are?   I know it happens, of course,  I am not naive (well, I am, but not that naive) but what is this?   

 That sounds like explicit financial inducements to sign at schools.  What is ok and what gets you investigated? I mean, here is a case where he has to sit out 20%of games for $1000, and this sentence shows up in the middle of the article.

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Gr1mlock

February 5th, 2024 at 2:17 PM ^

Is it just me or does this sound a lot like almost the exact way the NCAA fucked over Jamal Crawford and Michigan 20+ years ago?  The more things change….

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SF Wolverine

February 5th, 2024 at 2:38 PM ^

Wayyyyyy past time for this joke of an organization to go away.  Almost 100% of what they do and don't do is bad.  Very hard to do that if you are not affirmatively trying to be bad.

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Romeo50

February 5th, 2024 at 2:42 PM ^

Did the NCAA ever rule on the advantages and use of Coach vetted, multi team advance scouting information being shared amongst opponents? I know for the safety of the student athletes and competitive fairness that was very important to them. At least it was paramount to Tony Liltitti.

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