🏈 AAU coach sends $200 check- player ruled ineligible.

[TerryP]

Alright, is there some point where the NCAA is going to make a definitive decision on what the AAU circuit is when it comes to college basketball?

In this case, I believe the coach. Why else would he send a check unless he didn't think there was anything wrong with giving the kid some money? It might be tempting to say, or think, the coach is that stupid. But come on! There are far too many situations involving kids losing eligibility for all of those stories to "slip" by him.

PITTSBURGH -- Kansas State held Jamar Samuels out Saturday from its 75-59 loss to top-seeded Syracuse because of an eligibility concern, saying a review was under way and that the NCAA was involved.
Curtis Malone, the founder of the DC Assault AAU organization, told the Topeka Capital-Journal he sent money to Samuels before the NCAA tournament but said it wasn't an impermissible benefit because he already had developed a relationship with Samuels and his mother.
"I don't just give a kid money," Malone told the newspaper. "According to a case, if Jamar don't have any money or the kid don't have any money during the week and he asks me can I give him a few dollars, you know, I'll do that.
"If that was a benefit, then I don't really see how. It's the same way when he played with DC Assault on road trips. When he didn't have money to eat, he ate."
A source told the Capital-Journal the amount of money Samuels received was $200.
"This is something that has come up rapidly in the last 24 hours," athletics director John Currie said before the game. "We are working diligently to solve it.

From ESPN: Kansas State Jamar Samuels ruled ineligible.