Syracuse Loses Melo to eligibility issues

[DenverSooner]

Melo is out. He did not travel with the team. Lets summarize Syracuse this season:

1. Fine is a child molestor and his wife sleeps with the players.
2. Syracuse is caught violating its own policies and playing players that should be suspended.
3. Syracuse played Melo all season only to learn he is ineligible right before the NCAA Trounament.

Surely this program is going to get hit with probation.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Melo is out. He did not travel with the team. Lets summarize Syracuse this season:

1. Fine is a child molestor and his wife sleeps with the players.
2. Syracuse is caught violating its own policies and playing players that should be suspended.
3. Syracuse played Melo all season only to learn he is ineligible right before the NCAA Trounament.

Surely this program is going to get hit with probation.

Isn't this the second time this year he had 'eligibility' issues?

 

[DenverSooner]

Isn't this the second time this year he had 'eligibility' issues?

He missed some games for academic reasons earlier in the season. The story did not say if the events were linked.

 

[campbest]

Melo is out. He did not travel with the team. Lets summarize Syracuse this season:

1. Fine is a child molestor and his wife sleeps with the players.
2. Syracuse is caught violating its own policies and playing players that should be suspended.
3. Syracuse played Melo all season only to learn he is ineligible right before the NCAA Trounament.

Surely this program is going to get hit with probation.

As far as I know, #2 was for previous seasons, not this year.

#3 is not true as he was held out earlier this year for academic reasons.

 

[DenverSooner]

As far as I know, #2 was for previous seasons, not this year.

#3 is not true as he was held out earlier this year for academic reasons.

They played him all season except 3 games. If he has eligibility issues, they likely existed all season or at minimum all semester. I think you are being a bit too literal about the word "all".

 

[campbest]

They played him all season except 3 games. If he has eligibility issues, they likely existed all season or at minimum all semester. I think you are being a bit too literal about the word "all".

Fab was cleared by Clearinghouse to start his career at Syracuse, then the NCAA suspended him earlier this season and then cleared him to play again. However, the organization revisited the case and has once again deemed him ineligible. All of this according to Dana O'Neil from ESPN.

He may have had eligibility issues, but Syracuse was following protocol from the NCAA.