The innocent kid is the only one being punished because the adults in charge don’t know a better way to enforce the unfair and outdated rules they make up on the fly to guard their own profits over the interests of the student-athletes they pretend to protect.
Somehow, this is where we are with the NCAA and Kansas basketball forward Silvio De Sousa.
The NCAA has no evidence and presumably no way of proving De Sousa did anything wrong. He continues to sit out anyway, his college career dissolving. The official explanation is that his eligibility is being investigated.