Vinny
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a comment from the link...Boise State sophomore defensive tackle Ricky Tjong-A-Tjoe has been reinstated by the NCAA and is eligible to play Saturday against Air Force, the NCAA told the Idaho Statesman on Wednesday. Boise State confirmed that Tjong-A-Tjoe will be available to play.
Tjong-A-Tjoe served a six-game penalty and still must replay the value of his impermissible benefits - $13,600, received from “a host family, which included Boise State boosters, both prior and after enrolling at the university,” the NCAA said. “These benefits included housing, meals, gifts, school supplies, travel, vacation, among other items.”
The statement from the NCAA says Tjong-A-Tjoe was reinstated “with conditions.” It’s unclear if there are conditions beyond repaying the benefits to charity and missing six games.
Tjong-A-Tjoe's case was the last of three involving Boise State players from Amsterdam resolved by the NCAA. The NCAA student-athlete reinforcement staff made its decision Tuesday.
This entire decision is outrageous and proves the NCAA claims of "student athletes" is purely fraudulent.
A minor moves to the US and, consistent both with common sense and US law, moves in with a family. The family houses him, feeds him, helps him with school, and, horrors of horrors, takes him on vacations like a family member! Just because the family, like other Boise families, supports the Broncos, these are impermissible benefits?
Does the NCAA now propose that students be homeless?
How would this be any different if the "host family" were his parents?
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