Silvio De Sousa, a 6-foot-9, 245-pound sophomore from Angola, who did not play in a game last season and is also suspended through next season by the NCAA, had an appeal filed on his behalf by the university on Thursday. By
The worst came exactly 11 weeks ago when the NCAA told Silvio De Sousa he could not do the thing he left his family in Angola to do, because adults violated rules without his consent or knowledge and did so in a way that did not benefit him.
It is patently unfair, and we’ll get to that soon, but on the day the NCAA suspended him for two seasons, De Sousa did the only thing he could think to do.