If you're like me, you're fully in the throes of a new basketball season, anticipating the beauty that is real, actual college basketball coming back into our lives after a seven-month absence. So it would be easy to forget one of the offseason's major storylines: Whether or not the NCAA will let Renardo Sidney suit up this fall.

Things seemed to be coming to a close last week, when Sidney's attorney, Don Jackson, claimed that he had turned over all the necessary requirements to the NCAA. This is a truly shocking development, given Jackson's air-tight grip on his client's reality. (Note: This grip is not air-tight. All the same, the NCAA would like more from Sidney, and they would like it now:

"Mr. Jackson and his client did not provide all of the information requested since April and his client’s status remains non-certified due to non-response,” Williams wrote in an e-mail. Williams said the NCAA sent a memo to Jackson outlining its requests: Bank and phone records and rental documentation.

Jackson is claiming the NCAA's only goal here is to "prolong this investigation." This is the same man who toothlessly threatened a congressional hearing on the matter, and who played the race card almost immediately when the NCAA began sniffing around for confirmation of the Sidneys' financial status. Which puts Jackson's legal credibility far below an organization almost everyone hates for one reason or another.

At this point, the Sidneys might consider getting a new lawyer; it's hard to see what good Jackson is doing them with all the stalling and theatrics. At this point, Sidney's family might be more concerned with making sure Renardo actually plays basketball this year. Maybe not. But the rest of us will be getting on with the season this evening. What will Renardo Sidney do?

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