re: Great analysis of the Maason Smith situation and NCAA incompetence

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3. Other kids who broke this rule got to pick a game in 2022,

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This is misinformation that keeps getting repeated. The “choosing” a game is only for suspensions handed down by the schools or maybe the conferences. The NCAA has never allowed an athlete to choose their game(s). This was clarified by Ross Dellinger this week. An NCAA suspension is to be served in the immediate game(s) after the appeal process is completed and that player is eligible and healthy to play in. Boutte got lucky that just so happened for him before a cupcake. But that was a lucky coincidence. He, nor LSU, was allowed to “choose.”

Think what you want about how his injury or the fact the rule changed just a couple weeks after his violation should affect Maason’s suspension. But this whole “why doesn’t he get to choose the game when past players could narrative is false.