I've been pretty vocal in my assertion that the athletic department was a complete letdown in this situation. To have such an integral player (the one player we didn't have a competent backup for) deemed ineligible the week of the NCAA Tournament, is absurd. Especially when this player already had a period of ineligibility before. And still, his main backup, Christmas, was played all of 28 minutes in the 9 games leading up to the Tournament. Complete failure, IMO.
I can see how Kansas St could suffer an ineligibility like they did before the game against us, as nobody could predict the circumstances behind it (someone finding a receipt proving improper benefits). I can see how if a player had failed a drug test, or been arrested, ect, how something like that could completely happen the week of the Tournament...all teams are somewhat suseptible to those situations without a backup plan.
But academics are something that can and should be monitored. If Fab was not going to class, he should have been benched, and not only would Christmas have been more prepared, but the entire team would have been allowed more time to adjust. The way it played out is inexcusable, IMO.
