Break out your calculators, we're going to do some basic math. Take a high school basketball player with limited financial resources who goes off to an upscale prep school in the East or Mid-Atlantic for a season. Few of the prep schools grant scholarships and if they do, it's usually a partial ride. Eddie Sutton's Cowboys could use Andre Williams. Not at all.
Someone has to be paying for the tuition.
The NCAA doesn't have the ability to pursue all the cases, let alone be able to get information to levy penalties. In a statement released Wednesday to the Kansas City Star, Kansas city businessman Tom Grant admitted that he paid for Williams' tuition at Maine Central Institute. We have had to fund-raise to get the kids in prep school. But it shouldn't be a violation. Oh, but it is.