Baylor Walk On RB Dismissed For Taking Impermissible Benefits Because He Was Homeless

[price499]

Wow....

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/baylor-rb-silas-nacita-says-ncaa-ruled-him-ineligible--but-the-story-has-holes-193612512.html

[price499]

"Baylor walk-on running back Silas Nacita has been dismissed from the Baylor football team after he claimed the NCAA ruled he took an impermissible benefit.

 

His benefit?

 

Taking permanent lodging from a friend instead of sleeping on various apartment floors.

 

Nacita, who detailed his ordeal with the NCAA on Twitter, claimed he was homeless when he enrolled at Baylor and was staying on the floors of various friends. He said a longtime family friend took him in, gave him a place to live, and that the NCAA deemed that impermissible benefit and ruled him ineligible".[/i]

 

According to David Smoak, who works for an ESPN station in Central Texas that profiled Nacita during the 2014 season, Nacita was given options to relieve his homelessness and stay within NCAA rules and might not have taken advantage of them.

 

 

Smoak also noted that Nacita was told of potential housing options prior to accepting housing from a friend."

[theguru]

Thanks for posting.

 

I hate to see stories like this one.

[BIG BLACK JACK]

NCAA, like any governing body in this country, is an absolute joke.

[mcpapa]

Common sense, meet the NCAA.

[ggclfan]

I think the NCAA is a joke much of the time. However, if you actually read the attached link, there is more to this story than the first two posts. Not sure what to make of it at this point.

[price499]

I think the NCAA is a joke much of the time. However, if you actually read the attached link, there is more to this story than the first two posts. Not sure what to make of it at this point.

 

I included the part where it says he was offered housing but declined it...

[UKMustangFan]

He issued an apology today. Said that the people he accepted housing from he now considers close family friends, however at the time they were merely an acquaintance, and that it was indeed receiving impermissible benefits.

[CoachBuckett]

The NCAA is not a institution that cares about kids. They prove it time after time. I say do away with the NCAA and just let conferences handle these issues.

[swamprat]

I think the NCAA is a joke much of the time. However, if you actually read the attached link, there is more to this story than the first two posts. Not sure what to make of it at this point.

 

From what I've gathered from articles and twitter ...

 

The kid turned down the offered housing, because that is not what he wanted and what he wanted clearly violated NCAA rules. When caught, obviously by Baylor not the NCAA, he decides to misrepresent the facts to garner sympathy because everybody hates the NCAA.

 

A classic case of somebody jumping on a tweet and making it a story without checking it out first and everybody piing on without doing the same.