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Awsi, only thing I'd take issue with with in your post was, to repeat, there was a time in the 50s and 60s when point shaving and fixed games were NOT "incredibly rare." It was rampant and done over more than a decade -- from the dawn of the 1950s through around 1962. And, there were likely...

NCAA is rightly leery of anyone paying players. It's not that big a leap to fixing games/shaving points. I'm old enough to recall the rampant point shaving of the 50s and 60s, and more recently at BC and Arizona State. No hint of any of that with Dewan but ... that's why they crack down so hard...

I think you are right. I root for him too but I think Europe is his future (the money/lifestyle isn't bad).

Understandable. However it went down though, when all is said and done, he brought this on himself (either being found out, or self-reporting the matter).

I wonder if Coach L was in agreement with sitting Dewan.

It's not clear at all that if all appeals to the NCAA are exhausted (as they will be with the ruling we are now waiting for), that Dewan could return next year if he wanted to. Another "ineligible" decision could mean he's forfeited his opportunity to play college ball for good.

When is the decision on this "last appeal" expected now? Last week, they were saying end of last week. Did not happen.

AAU ball and all that it has brought (street agents, sleazy "coaches," playing with kids psyches, etc) is the worst thing that ever happened to college basketball.

Excerpts from AP article from today, Jan 18th. Bolding is mine! "Miami Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga said junior forward Dewan Hernandez deserves to be declared eligible by the NCAA because he unwittingly became entangled in a college basketball corruption case when he was duped by an AAU...