Welcome in we got an emergency reaction here. I am about to hop on the road and head down to Tuscaloosa.

But as I was about to get in the car and begin the drive down for the big LSU Alabama game tomorrow pure bedlam erupts with the NCAA Memphis

and this is a pretty hard way all of this insanity so let me try to make some sense of what appears to have happened today.

James Weisman is the presumptive number one overall draft pick from the city of Memphis now who is right now

and he was ruled in eligible by the NCAA because it has emerged and I don't know how they got evidence of this.

I don't know if Penny Hardaway wrote his family a check. I don't know what exactly happened but when Weisman moved from Nashville to Memphis

Penny Hardaway gave him $11,500 in relocation expenses because Penny Hardaway is a booster at the time of Memphis athletics.

This makes that donation unacceptable and so this is a major controversy. Now he was ruled and eligible today.

The Memphis through an attorney in the city went before a judge and I haven't read the temporary restraining order but the judge effectively shot down the NCAA rule.

This is the release from Memphis that I am reading. It's a statement from Memphis athletics based on a rule interpretation issued by the NCAA University of Memphis Freshman Men's Basketball Student Athlete James Weisman was going to be a judge.

However, based on an emergency temporary restraining order issued late today by the courts James will participate in tonight's game.

The university is currently working with the NCAA staff to restore his playing status and we are hopeful for a speedy resolution to the matter.

Initially, after a joint standard eligibility review by the University and the NCAA James was declared eligible in May of 2019.

However, based on information that necessitated a deeper investigation the university began to investigate this matter.

We will university anyway. That is the statement. Now what has been alleged here is a further evidence here.

The fact that while James was a high school after several months of interviews and a review of documentation it was determined that in summer of 2017 while James was a high school student and prospective student athlete Penny Hardaway provided $11,500 in moving expenses to assist the Weisman family in their relocation to Memphis.

It says unbeknownst to James. That is a key part there. This is the Cam Newton exception. Now this is wild. This is wild in general because if you are not familiar with the difference, i.e. the distance between Nashville and Memphis we are talking about 220 miles or so.

Penny Hardaway gave the family $11,500 to basically drive from Memphis to Nashville which seems like an exorbitant amount of moving expenses.

It looks like what Penny Hardaway did is buy James Weisman to come play for his high school and then also who knows how much other money has gone to James Weisman in order for him to come play at Memphis.

When you break this down in a larger context, everybody wants to blame the NCAA here. But the real story is nobody talks about the age restrictions. James Weisman would have been a top 5 pick in the NBA if he could have gone straight from high school to the NBA.

So why do they have this absurd one and done rule? Everybody wants to rip the NCAA. But the NCAA isn't stopping James Weisman from going pro. They are not saying hey you don't have the right at 18 years old to go play in the NBA.

So I understand why people get angry at the NCAA but they are interpreting their rules which are predicated on the idea of you can't buy players in theory and have them go play at your school.

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