...Can you say he was ineligible in retrospect? If the allegations are true, he should have been ineligible, but Should and What Was are two different things. Also, if he had been ineligible, he wouldn’t have signed the same contract with Ford, if he even would have signed with ford at all. If Zion is able to be retroactively deemed ineligible based on having accepted benefits, then isn’t the whole of the NCAA—all of its results—invalid, since it can reasonably be presumed that many more players received benefits?