Ineligible Baylor RB Silas Nacita tweeted an apology Thursday morning for breaking NCAA guidelines.
Baylor announced Wednesday that the formerly homeless walk-on running back was ineligible because of rules violations. While Nacita said Wednesday that he was ruled ineligible by the NCAA, the NCAA said it never heard his case or made a ruling about it, meaning Baylor never took the case to the governing body.
Thursday, Nacita apologized for breaking NCAA rules, misleading in his previous tweets, and said he should have accepted NCAA-approved guidance offered to him by Baylor.
The bottom line is that I broke the rules. I should've never accepted the help and I am deeply sorry for my actions http://ift.tt/1MUGv4c
— Silas Nacita (@Salsa_Nacho) February 26, 2015 Players are allowed to accept housing assistance from close family friends, but as he said in his apology, his utilization of the people around him didn't fit the guidelines.
As we wrote Wednesday, the multiple layers of the story meant we likely didn't know the whole sequence of events that led to Nacita's ineligibility. While his apology helps clear the waters, it's still safe to say there's likely more here than meets the eye.
And this should be a lesson to all NCAA athletes to check with compliance before doing anything that could be considerend a violation of NCAA rules, no matter the circumstances.
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