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UCLA to appeal for Rush NCAA adds whole season to self-imposed suspension
Posted: Tuesday February 01, 2000 07:30 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- UCLA's JaRon Rush has been suspended by the NCAA for the final 12 regular-season games and the first 17 of next season for allegedly receiving benefits from an AAU coach while in high school. UCLA athletic director Peter Dalis said Tuesday the university will file an appeal. Rush, a sophomore who was the team's top rebounder and third-leading scorer last season, will continue practicing with the team pending the appeal. The NCAA informed UCLA late Monday of its decision to assess the following penalties against Rush:
Rush, who has sat out 15 games since being suspended, has admitted receiving money from agent Jerome Stanley, who has denied the allegation. Published reports said the amount was $200. Rush returned home to Kansas City in November to testify at a trial Piggie was involved in. Dalis said he was surprised at the severity of the second penalty, and said the school will appeal to the NCAA Subcommittee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement. "It appears the NCAA is setting the bar high on these types of penalties," Dalis said. "Given the facts of the case as we know them, we will appeal the second penalty on JaRon's behalf." UCLA sports information director Marc Dellins said the university expects the appeal to be heard sometime next week. UCLA said that until the appeal is heard, neither Rush nor the school would comment further. "There's a process for an appeal of a student-athlete reinstatement case," NCAA spokeswoman Jane Jankowski said from Indianapolis. "I do not have any time frame, but generally speaking, that committee tries to work very quickly. "Generally, the way the NCAA looks at reinstatement is that the conditions are based on the level of severity of the violations." Rush, 20, played in three games at the beginning of this season before UCLA suspended him Dec. 10 for allegedly receiving money from an agent. The NCAA made its decision based on information received from UCLA, which conducted its own investigation, and material gathered on its own. UCLA has to put together its reasons for the appeal, and that material plus the case file the NCAA has must be shipped to all the members of the subcommittee before an appeal can be heard. Rush admitted three weeks ago that he accepted money from Stanley, and called it a mistake, adding he was "just a stupid kid just doing stupid things." Rush has said Dalis told him his scholarship would be honored if the NCAA ruled him ineligible for any further collegiate competition. Rush's younger brother, Kareem, was suspended until last
Saturday for allegedly receiving money from Piggie before enrolling
at Missouri, where he's a freshman. He missed nine games.
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