High Schooler Exposes College Basketball Fraud
April 27th, 2009 by admin
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Jeremy Tyler ,a junior in high school in San Diego California, announced that he is foregoing his senior year to play professional basketball in Europe. Tyler a six foot eleven seventeen year old was quoted as saying that high school basketball “was boring and I was not getting better”.
Tyler follows high school star, Brandon Jennings,who skipped college last year to play professional basketball in Italy. Jennings is reported to have earned more than a million dollars this year and is now expected to be in this year’s NBA draft.
A few days before Tyler’s plans were made public, an NCAA committee announced that it was changing its rule concerning the eligibility of college underclassmen to explore the opportunity to enter the NBA draft but to college return without penalty if they have not hired an agent to represent them.
Current rules require that in order to play in the NBA a USA citizen must be nineteen years old and at least one year has passed since his high school class whould have graduated . A separate set of rules apply to international players .
The NCAA committee is proposing to change the rules so that college coaches can plan more effectively for their roster for the following season.
Fran Fraschilla a former Division One baketball coach and current ESPN baketball analyst said :
he was certain Tyler was not going to
Europe for the money. He said he could easily earn $200,000 in the
United States. “He could pretty much get that money illegally,
either via a college or an agent, willing to funnel his family the
money,”
Fraschiila ,who should know, makes clear that Division One college basketball is rotten to its core.
College for elite basketball players is an eight month apprenticeship not higher education.
Like Captain Louis Renault in the film classic Casablanca who who was shocked to find that gambling was going on in Ricks’ backroom, the NCAA and NBA seem to be oblivious to the academic fraud they are enabling.
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August 12th, 2009 at 5:33 am
I’m sorry for digging up this old post, but i have to ask if you have some new updates about jeremy Tyler. I found out that he is involved in some betting frauds.
thanks.