[outdoorsman43]

The Kanter ruling is the first time that the NCAA has had to face this. They have never had the rules challenged in the past for a professional athlete seeking a ruling. This is ruling of an athlete playing a Professional sport and then seeking amateur status after doing so and receiving compensation. This is nothing like the OSU players, or Cam Newton, thus it deserves to be handled differently.

All this talk about him turning down millions means NOTHING. He is a professional athlete with an unfair advantage over any other college athlete. I don't want a kid who pitched against professional athletes in Mexico, being compensated for it, then coming to the rival High School that I coach against being deemed eligible to play.

Cam Newton did nothing that gave him professional status. The OSU players did nothing that allowed them to compete as professionals giving them a competitive advantage over any other college athlete. Derrick Rose did not receive benefits that made him a paid professional. The Kanter case is NOTHING like the others!

Did I say it was like the other cases? No. The situations are all totally different but they all have one thing in common: they all broke NCAA rules. This doesn't mean I think the NCAA rulebook is perfect and I don't think some of these situations should never even exist, because some of the shouldn't (especially the Pryor situation). The NCAA rulebook is worth no more than a coloring book to me. It's garbage. Still though, some situations should exist (the Newton situation where his father demanded money with the recruitment of his son). Regardless, all these situations involved rules being broken.

The Kanter case being handled "differently"? I understand where you're coming from but that really doesn't seem very fair here. Cam Newton receives absolutely no punishment whatsoever for the reasons I stated above. Do you think the NCAA made the right move there? I mean, do you really? Don't you think Terrelle Pryor should be suspended for the bowl game against Arkansas? Why shouldn't he?

Like I said, I'm not saying I think what those players done was wrong (except for Newton). All I am saying is if the NCAA is going to unjustly give a little slap on the wrist for something that is in their rule book to one player and if another player(s) breaks a rule then they receive full punishment, that's ridiculous.

Whether Kanter situation is different from the others has nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter. Newton should be punished! Pryor should be punised (him being suspended for the first five games of next season doesn't matter with the probability of him entering the NFL Draft). But since they weren't punished to amount to anything, why should Kanter suffer? I understand all the professional stuff..blah, blah, blah......Face it. The kid was given bad advice from a Turkish league that did not want him to go to America to play basketball and when he did they weren't going to help him in any way. Do you really think his family knew that the money they accepted was over the limit? I understand ignorance of the rules is no excuse but situations like this shouldn't end with permanent ineligibility (heck, not even a year for that matter). I really don't think it's that big of a deal. It's certainly no bigger deal than the other cases if you look at the circumstances of how little Kanter and his family knew. The kid was 15 and 16 years old for crying out loud.

But can't the kid at least pay back the money and sit a few games? If not, why can't he? Answer that question if nothing else.