Edmond_Sooner
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Long story fairly short, I couldn't play for a whole year because they said I "accepted" the pay of a traveling team whose roster had my name on it. It was one of those ex player teams that you sometimes see pop-up in exhibition games, they have sort of gone out the wayside. All I did was practice with them a few times because I knew a couple of the guys that were on the team. Somehow (I still don't know how) my name was on their roster while they played a few games. They make next to nothing to travel and play, but even despite that, and despite the fact I was in school when their games started (details aren't important here, of course) the NCAA called. Convienently, I missed a couple of practices due to personal matters, and they pinpointed those two days as when I played for a team featuring guys 6-10 years older than me, in freaking Kansas. (why the hell would I want to go to Kansas to play a game for 100 bucks) Despite witnesses that accounted my story, they sided with one clown with evidence, a clown who had a grudge. After a shoddy and one-sided "investigation" (hell I didn't even know they paid attention to the Horizon League) there wasn't much I could do, other than some fruitless appeal. It's not all that unlike Mike Balogun, aside from the fact that he did actually play for a semi-pro team at one time, and aside from the fact that Mike had NFL potential.
If you want more details I can PM you, but that's the gist of it.
Wow...you must have had one serious enemy...
A lot of my former teammates went on to play for these traveling teams so i know exactly what you are talking about...i was asked to play but it was for peanuts, i could have made more working at a fast food joint...i loved basketball and probably would have had fun playing against the OU's, Kansas's and so forth, but IMO it was for guys that careers were over and were just hanging on...
So did you have to use a Redshirt or did you lose that year all together? you can PM me if you want...