Everyone has heard of John Wall, and everyone knows about John Wall's eligibility issues -- that he played for certified agent Brian Clifton while in AAU, that he has to serve a two-game suspension and pay back any expenses Clifton paid for while the two did the AAU circuit together.

Far fewer people know about West Virginia freshman Deniz Kilicli. But Kilicli is having eligibility issues of his own. His suspension is far more serious than Wall's. And if Bob Huggins is to be believed -- hold your laughter for a minute here -- that suspension has far more to do with luck and circumstance than with any wrongdoing by Kilicli. Mike DeCourcy explains:

Kilicli, who is 6-9, 260 pounds, was suspended because the club team he played for wound up with a pro in the lineup after that player was dropped down from a higher division, Huggins said. NCAA officials consistently have applied a game-for-game penalty against international players who have competed alongside pros. Iowa State's Lucca Staiger, from Germany, missed the entire 2007-08 season because of a similar punishment. Kilicli got 11 games for that, and another nine for accepting expenses from his club.

There appears to be no chance for Kilicli to pay back expenses he received from his club in exchange for a lesser penalty, and an Kilicli's appeal has already been denied by the NCAA. Huggins says Kilicli is "struggling" with the decision, and that if "he wanted to be a pro, you don't think anyone would have paid him to stay over there?" It's a pretty valid point.

There's also an argument to be made that Wall's situation is potentially more damaging to the ethic of the NCAA. Theoretically, Wall could be in the pocket of an agent while enrolled at school, which leads to all sorts of problematic college sports issues too common for me to explain here. Kilicli's association with a pro gets him ... what, exactly? A pro was bumped down to an amateur club while Kilicli was also on the roster, and now Kilicli's amateur status is corrupted by osmosis? This makes zero sense.

The Bleacher Report has been quick to blame this on the NCAA looking to punish the little guy while preserving the star status of the game's elite. Maybe that's true, but I doubt it. More than anything, this is just a bad rule. It was a bad rule when it cost Iowa State player his entire 2007-08 season. It's a bad rule now. Free Kilicli! Or at least let him pay back the money and start paying. To use an expression you're more likely to hear from Bob Huggins: for chrissakes, this is silly.

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