[ALUmnus]

This dude played in a church league, and he loses a year of eligibility (am I spelling that right? that's a lot of i's).

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/ncaa-c ... -gr/nbjBR/

Nathan Harries is a freshman basketball player at Colgate. He played at Centennial High School. He was a high achiever academically, graduated in 2011 with honors and was recruited by programs such as Princeton, Penn and Bucknell. But as a devout Mormon, Harries delayed college for two years to serve a religious mission in North Carolina. This fall, after two years of religious studies, ministering and serving the community, Harries enrolled at Colgate, with the expectation of playing basketball beginning with the season opener Friday against Wake Forest.

But the NCAA has stripped him of one season of eligibility, and you won’t believe why.

The governing body ruled that Harries played this past summer in an organized and competitive basketball league before enrolling at Colgate. In truth, Harries actually was just a fill-in for three games for a “C” level team in a relative church basketball league. Most players are in their 30s; one team is largely comprised of players in their 50s. According to one player, Matt Adams, a 36-year-old high school teacher, “We had one guy who played with us and he was like, ‘If any of you have any advice you could give me that would be great because I never played basketball before.’”

Michael Harries, Nathan’s father, said, “It’s like an old man’s league — I could play in it.

[RubberMallet]

it will be overturned. this comes up from time to time if i remember correctly.

[lynchburgwildcats]

This is the kind of thing that shouldn't have to be overturned to begin with if the NCAA would just use a sliver of common sense.

[flamehunter]

Haha, you used NCAA and common sense in the same sentence. You made a funny!