According to the Lawyer, Diallo's ACT score has been investigated by the NCAA. Now the article doesn't name Diallo directly but what other highly regarded player is being held hostage..
"A senior official at the NCAA’s Eligibility Center acknowledged in an e-mail that his organization submitted an inquiry to ACT, Inc. regarding the test score of a highly regarded basketball prospect, an action attorney Don Jackson contends is racially motivated.
Jackson shared with Sporting News the e-mail sent to him Sept. 4 by a vice president of the NCAA’s Eligibility Center, which acknowledged that the prospective student-athlete had been certified in July as eligible to compete as a freshman at an NCAA institution. But, according to the NCAA representative, the prospect’s core-course GPA and ACT score “met a PSA review trigger
Jackson was outraged the NCAA would request the ACT examine the validity of the score and that it would make such a request when there was no evidence of fraud. The prospect, who is African-American, only took the ACT once, so there was not one of those hard-to-explain score jumps that have led to scores being nullified in the past.
Jackson, whose firm The Sports Group is based in Montgomery, Ala., chose not to name the prospect he is representing in this case, or the school where that athlete is enrolled and plans to compete.
An NCAA spokesperson told SN by e-mail that the inquiry to the ACT “merely provides notice to the testing agency that the staff has identified a statistical anomaly based on student-athlete academic certification data. The inquiry does not, however, ask the testing agency to investigate a particular score.”
Jackson called that position “counterintuitive,” claiming the NCAA Eligibility Center notified the affected university the test score was being examined before the ACT notified the prospect his score was in question.
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Jackson said the NCAA’s process and actions in this case are “profoundly, openly and unapologetically racist as hell.” He is suggesting he could take the matter to federal court.
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From the Lawyer's Facebook page..
DONALD MAURICE JACKSON
Yesterday at 5:01pm ·
Seen countless examples of blatant discrimination against international and African American student-athletes over the years by the NCAA Eligibility Center and Enforcement Staff. "Rules': that are applied selectively (with nothing more than pretextual explanations......something about that seems wrong!!!! How can the Eligbility Center staff make value judgments about the :academic rigor" of secondary schools on other continents when the "staff' rarely leaves NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis. For that fact, how can they make value judgments about secondary schools in the U.S. without visting the schools. Just might be time for the Eligibility Center to be subjected to an "extended review" through the discovery process.........
Donald Maurice Jackson
Donald Maurice Jackson @Brandon. Been saying the same thing for over a decade. Application of NCAA legislation has a disproportionately adverse impact on international student-athletes and African Americans. Academic reviews and amateurism investigations appear to target African American and international student-athletes. I believe this historical pattern establishes an intention to discriminate and is illegal.
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