This is what happens when you cheat (outside of Chapel Hill).

I remember them beating schools by 50 because they had a legit D1 player wreaking havoc on a bunch of non-scholarship players.

I thought she came home and went to TMC because she was homesick. So shouldn't she have an actual home here somewhere? Where is her mom?

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I thought she came home and went to TMC because she was homesick. So shouldn't she have an actual home here somewhere? Where is her mom?

 

Was homesick and originally planned to transfer to UK. The UF coach blocked that transfer so she went to TMC.

I know her dad had a house in Triple Crown in Nky and thought her mom still lived in the area. I don't understand why she had to stay at the coaches house. If she was a student she could have lived in the dorms so I'm guessing she wasn't enrolled at the time. Just a weird situation.

Where would she have stayed had she not had surgery? I don't get where the surgery factors in.

 

Your point , though, is more than fair.

 

Do we know more details about this? How did she have no where to go?

 

I am curious about this as well. Why did she not have anywhere to go? Is all of her family out of the area now?

All I know is, WVFrank is rolling over in his grave right now.

As a TMC alum, this whole situation makes me sad...

 

From cincinnati.com

 

Moss was three-time NCAA Division III player of the year, but her 2015 award will be vacated as well. TMC's only on-court loss in her three seasons was in the 2014 NCAA Tournament, when she injured her knee and left the game early. Her father is former NFL receiver Randy Moss.

Sydney Moss has known Allen since her middle-school years. He was an AAU coach and later a part-time assistant for TMC from 2013-15 and has since gone back to the high school ranks. Armstrong said she had stayed with Allen's family and traveled with them at various times before she got to Thomas More, and that Hans ensured that Allen had no part in her initial recruitment.

After injuring her knee in the 2014 NCAA Tournament, Moss elected to stay in Northern Kentucky and rehabilitate rather than go home to her mother in West Virginia. Armstrong said she was unable to work or move around in her apartment, which had stairs.

 

"Sydney is a very private person. She does not seek the limelight. She’s the most humble girl on our team," Armstrong said. "Like anyone in that situation, she needed help, and she went to the closest family member – in her words – that was there, and that was the Allen family. She’s stayed with them and traveled with them in the past, and for her it was natural. When we found out about it, we looked at the rules, saw that there was a pre-existing relationship. That’s an exception and you move on. That was our mistake. We should have called the NCAA at that point and got a rubber-stamp on that."

Armstrong defended Allen as well, saying the school requested a hearing with the COI because it charged Allen with a violation of "unethical conduct," one of the five major violations presented to Thomas More. That charge against Allen was dropped in the final report.

"We could have easily thrown him under the bus, but that’s not the kind of institution we are," Armstrong said. "We found no evidence of unethical behavior. We’re very satisfied with the COI that they recognized that there was no evidence from our internal investigation or the NCAA's investigation that any intent to deceive or cheat or violate rules had occurred. We misinterpreted a bylaw: That’s on us."

According to the school officials, the investigation process started with an anonymous tip in February 2015, shortly before the Saints began the postseason in the Presidents' Athletic Conference tournament. The college was not informed of the charges until that summer, and they began their own investigation, holding Moss out for the first five games of the 2015-16 season.

 

Moss had done babysitting and other work for the Allen family during that time, reducing the NCAA's extra benefit from $5,000 to $1,600, Armstrong said.

The school said had it known about the charges earlier, it could have held Moss out of the 2015 postseason, but on Tuesday the officials' focus was on moving forward. Armstrong said he and his staff would focus on educating other Division III schools about these situations.

Imagine that, they won a couple of titles but they are cheaters...

 

Sad

 

Rather harsh statement. First of all it was only the first title, secondly it was a failure to know the rules rather than knowingly "cheating".

During different periods of her life she had stayed at this coaches house. High school and during her time at Fla. Her family moved back to West Virginia. School ended and had to move out of Dorm. Went back to where she had stayed before. TMC thought this was acceptable because of previous relationship before coming to TMC.

The moral of this story is that you (1) can't burp without first checking the NCAA regulations and (2) athletic administrators should at least have some awareness of those regs.

Did I read that correctly? The impermissible benefits total $1,600? That's ridiculous.

The NCAA has never been kind to Sydney Moss.

The 2012 Miss Basketball from Boone County High School and daughter of former NFL wide receiver Randy Moss, Sydney signed to play with the University of Florida out of high school. After a year in Gainesville, Moss grew homesick. She wished to transfer to the University of Kentucky, but Florida’s coach blocked the transfer. Moss’ next best option was Thomas More College, only a few miles from where she grew up in Northern Kentucky.

Moss would have been a superstar at UK. Instead, NCAA rules allow for coaches to restrict where student-athletes can transfer. She could not attain the same level of fame at Thomas More, but she could still ball better than anyone else.

Moss broke school and Division-III records. Her 63-point performance in March of 2014 is a D-III record that will stand for many years. Unfortunately, her season ended too soon. Moss tore her ACL in the regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament, Thomas More’s only loss during her first two seasons on the team. Following her sophomore season, Moss was named D-III player of the year, an award she would win three years in a row.

Insert stupid NCAA rule number two.

While rehabilitating her injured knee, Moss stayed with a former Thomas More volunteer assistant coach, someone who coached her throughout her childhood. She was provided a free place to stay, meals and sometimes the use of an automobile. This arrangement lasted for eight months.

Once Moss returned to the court, Thomas More continued to roll. Moss averaged 25 points per game and the Saints never lost, finishing the 2015 season as undefeated champs. Now, it will all be taken away.

The NCAA notified Thomas More today that the institution, “failed to monitor largely because it failed to educate, identify and react to the impermissible arrangement.” Thomas More will receive two years of probation, a $2,500 penalty, an outside audit, required attendance at rules seminars and a vacation of all games in which the student-athlete participated in while ineligible.

To set the record straight: when Moss needed a place to stay while rehabbing an ACL tear, she turned to someone who coached her as a child. Because that person was once a volunteer coach Thomas More, she was ruled ineligible. An undefeated National Title will be vacated.

Meanwhile at North Carolina, institutional academic fraud for student-athletes took place for decades, likely during years the Tar Heels won National Titles. At Louisville, hookers were paid to put on sex shows in the basketball dormitory to recruit players to play for a National Championship team. Will their titles be taken away? No, because the NCAA is inconsistent. This is just one more sad example of hypocrisy.

Not once, but twice Sydney Moss has suffered because of the NCAA. She deserves better

 

 

NCAA will Force Thomas More to Vacate Undefeated National Championship Season | Kentucky Sports Radio

So an impermissible benefit of $1,600 cost them a title...hmmm