On top of suspending him for a dozen games or so.
I'm not a big fan of college hoops, but I think this is hypocritical garbage from the NCAA. If the kid's family needed money from Penny Hardaway to move a few years ago, where's he supposed to get that money, now?
It almost feels like they're setting him up to be suspended again. "Oh, you took that 11.5K from an agent. You're suspended again."
Kid should honestly just sign with a sneaker company and start preparing for the draft.
I've been saying that for years what I think is odd here is they apparently changed the rule. Kansas had a guard a few years back, blanking on the name, he got caught in something and had to repay the money. The NCAA allowed him to repay it over time and allowed him to pay it back even after he left Kansas. This time ESPN says Wiseman has to pay it back before his last regular season game. As to how, the Kansas kid used scholarship money, their claim was he had money left over from every payout and he used that, his was less than 11,500.
As for did the family need money that's where we just don't know, they moved because he wanted to play for Penny Hardaway in HS, he was already on his AAU team. It was a basketball related move and honestly in California he would have been declared ineligible in HS just because he moved for sports reasons. Tenn apparently has different rules. So they are probably not wealthy, but they may not be poor either they may have simply taken the money because Penny offered it I really don't know.
I feel somewhat vindicated here my take all along is Memphis is stupid, just admit it, take the penalty and pay the money back while he sits out 9 games, now he'll get 15. He actually got only 12, 9 for the money, and 3 for the 3 games they played him while ineligible. I assume the NCAA will make them forfeit those 3 games too but I haven't seen that actually spelled out yet.
But If they do it means they lost 3 games and he misses 3 extra games because they chose to play him. They should have just sat him out and appealed. Now they're going to be appealing but why would the NCAA be lenient they already played him when ineligible and sued the NCAA, I seriously doubt they're going to win the appeal.
I'm glad the kid will play, I wish if anything it was Penny that got in trouble he's the one that did it. I don't for a second buy the he's not really a booster and he wasn't the coach nonsense. He was a former player that alone makes it against the rules for him to be involved in recruiting and you can't expect me to believe that him being linked to the #1 HS player in the country didn't play a large role in Memphis hiring him. I believe he wanted the job, already knew the kid and decided I can move the family, it'll get the Memphis job for me, so why not do it. I would like to see him get fined or something, lose a scholarship, some sort of penalty but I think the NCAA thinks they can't because he wasn't a college coach when this happened.
And I hope next year the Warriors win the draft lottery and get Wiseman or Cole Anthony!
