Western Kentucky head coach Rick Stansbury explained why Dontaie Allen is currently sitting out for the Hilltoppers.
According to Stansbury, Kentucky played Allen seven games (a total of 25 minutes) last season when he was ineligible.
“Nothing he has done. Nothing we have done. Kentucky played him seven games when he was ineligible,” Stansbury said. “Their coaches didn’t know it. (UK) compliance didn’t know. So how does the kid know it?
“Nobody can say the kid is at fault for not getting his grades. He didn’t know. If the adults in the room didn’t know, he didn’t know.”
Check out Stansbury’s press conference (he talks about Allen at 3:50 mark):
Here are more details from Larry Vaught at YourSportsEdge.com:
Twenty-five minutes in seven games and now he has to sit out seven games at Western.
Does Kentucky have to forfeit games it won using an ineligible player? Normally that’s what happens at the high school level but apparently not in college.
“Kentucky got their punishment. They got fined $500 per game for seven games ($3,500 total) but we are the ones getting punished now. The kid is the one getting punished. Nothing about that is right, that he is having to pay for mistakes that other people didn’t know, that’s responsible (for that), and punishing us, making him sit games.”
