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[QUOTE="Full_Rebar, post: 1455752, member: 3530"]
Not to play Devil's Advocate, but I can venture to explain some of your questions from my experience,

- As a willing member of the NCAA, Syracuse has agreed to participate in the requirement that all student-athletes must meet NCAA initial-eligibility guidelines as determined by the member schools and approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse. 
- I don't think the NCAA is "qualified" to assess the merits of foreign coursework, but like most higher education institutions they rely on guidelines from qualified organizations to determine equivalent grades from other countries. I have seen examples where international students received enough credit to enter with junior standing (UK/Germany for example), but for other countries, it becomes harder to determine even for the experts.
- I won't speculate on this point. I know in the past that SU didn't take non-qualifiers because the BE had a rule that once a non-qualifier enrolled they were permanently ineligible. I don't know the current rules, but it might be the case here.
- It's my guess that this week's decision was a final decision of an appeal, meaning that SU and Diagne (like Blair) knew weeks ago that the ruling was ineligible, and they were appealing the decision. I would agree that it would be reasonable to expect the NCAA to take some of their hundreds of millions and invest more in resources to make these decisions as they are again reviewing the status of every NCAA athlete across all divisions.

Note: Rules differ from division, so I have been shown cases where students were eligible for D1 and ineligible for D2 or 3 athletics because of this, which also makes no sense.
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