Maybe it’s the source of the benefits. Don’t know the particulars of Selby’s or Sidney’s case, but here, the benefits came directly from a professional basketball team. Maybe the thinking it that Selby and Sidney began to stray toward professionalism but that Kanter crossed a bright line when he accepted money directly from a professional basketball team.
I can’t believe that’s what the NCAA was thinking, however, because nowhere in its Nov. 11 press release did the NCAA offer any such explanation. No, the NCAA held simply that he received benefits above actual and necessary expenses. Not pay, not salary, excess benefits. So apart from amount, I don’t know how this case is different in substance from Selby’s or Sidney’s. Except Kanter didn’t lie to the NCAA!
Selby’s case, I think, is very much like Wall’s from last year. Wall had to sit three games, remember, because of ties to an agent.
