Syracuse’s Fab Melo Will Not Participate in the NCAA Tournament [UPDATE: Academics]
All, College Basketball, NCAA Tournament March 13th. 2012, 2:36pm
Major announcement from Syracuse today as center Fab Melo will miss the NCAA tournament due to an eligibility issue. From SU Athletics:
Syracuse University sophomore men’s basketball center Fab Melo did not travel with the team to Pittsburgh, and will not take part in the NCAA Tournament due to an eligibility issue. Given University policy and federal student privacy laws, no further details can be provided at this time.
Melo is Syracuse’s leading rebounder and shot blocker.
[UPDATE: Pete Thamel of the Times reports that Melo is an academic casualty, and that he'll declare for the NBA draft.]
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:37 PM
That sound you hear is TBL furiously changing brackets 2, 3, 5, 8 and 10. He did pat himself on the back for picking KState in 1, 4 and 6, so there’s that.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:38 PM
/weeps
March 13th, 2012 at 2:39 PM
what a stupid name for a person.
/TBL
March 13th, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Fab short for Fabulous?
March 13th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Please say yes.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Not a ‘Cuse fan at all, but the rate at which crap is coming out about this program seems a little odd. They obviously aren’t the only messed-up big-time basketball program in the country.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Fabricated Grades
March 13th, 2012 at 2:43 PM
how long before we have an athlete named “swag?”
Over under set at 10 8 years. Go.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:44 PM
*whooops… 8. not 10 8.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Typical Syracuse.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
No. 16 over a No. 1 for the first time ever!
/overreaction
March 13th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
jim would like to remind you that “he’s not joe paterno.”
serious though, cuse hoops runs that town like pedo state football ran happy valley.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
Wonder if the tokers knew about this on Sunday and waited now to announce it so they kept their seeding and/or location.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Wonder if the tokers knew about this on Sunday and waited now to announce it so they kept their seeding and/or location.
criticism of another CBB program from a UCONN fan? Funny.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Is that against the rules? Because if it’s not, I’d do the same thing.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:46 PM
Fab short for Fabulous?
his real name is Fabricio P. de Melo. thanks google!
March 13th, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Think it’s Fabrizio. He’s from Brazil. An entire country I will blame for this guy not being educated/smart/motivated enough to pass courses and professors who want nothing more than for him to pass.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:48 PM
Well that’s a huge disappointment.
/I will call him Fabulous from here on out
March 13th, 2012 at 2:49 PM
‘Cuse must be on the quarter system, right? That’s the only way this makes any sense to me.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Contrary to poular opinion, Cuse hoops isnt the end all be all like Paterno/Penn State football. Boeheim has always been a polarizing figure here and the local media holds him accountable. They don’t worship him like the local media did Paterno
March 13th, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Either way, it’s a sissy name.
Sincerely,
D’Alcapone Alpacino Morris
March 13th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Fab was going to leave for the NBA draft anyways. He doesn’t do well in school and he might as well just leave to go make some money
March 13th, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Semesters.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:53 PM
That rings true for most of the stars in the tournament.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
‘Cuse must be on the quarter system, right? That’s the only way this makes any sense to me.
The feds are finally on to them. The Sandusky thing was just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve been saying for years that Beoheim is using the children he sells as sex toys as a front to sell drugs around the globe and uses that money to prop up the BCS. Fab Melo is just the first domino to fall.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Wasn’t as much “worship” as it was the fear of being cut off from covering the team.
/hair-splitter
March 13th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
How in the hell is he just now being declared ineligible for academics?
March 13th, 2012 at 2:55 PM
his real name is Fabricio P. de Melo. thanks google!
Maybe he’ll find the time to open a pizza parlor in Buffalo under the name Fred.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Fab was going to leave for the NBA draft anyways. He doesn’t do well in school and he might as well just leave to go make some money
Sure glad we have those NBA age restrictions!
March 13th, 2012 at 2:56 PM
Stark is just bitter that Georgetown also flounders in tourney time under the wildly overrated coach, JTIII.
Fuck Georgetown
March 13th, 2012 at 2:57 PM
There’s gotta be one guy on Kentucky that’s ineligible, right?
March 13th, 2012 at 2:57 PM
Hell yeah. A Big East fight for the last time. This time next year Syracuse will be ripping on Roy Williams and calling Coach K a pedophile. Enjoy it while it lasts, Big East’ers.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:57 PM
The SEC knows how to cheat and not get caught, champ. We do it right down yonder.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:58 PM
That’s the Italian version, it’s Fabricio in Brazilian. I will not have my mother’s maiden name besmerched!
/realizes the dude who blows up Michael Corleone’s wife Apalonia in the Godfather is named Fabrizio.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Husker, SU and Pitt dont leave the Big east until the 2013-2014 season. We’ll still mock coach K anyways
March 13th, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Stark is just bitter that Georgetown also flounders in tourney time under the wildly overrated coach, JTIII.
Untrue. I hated Syracuse just as much when Craig Esherick was the coach.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Those freshman probably haven’t shown up to a class in months.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:00 PM
i think it’s actually “fabert.”
dumbasses.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Craig Esherick was always good for quality meltdown sound bites
March 13th, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Wow that is a deep cut Godfather reference.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:01 PM
The Bernie Fine shit opened up the door to an investigation of the program as a whole, that is why this stuff comes out. Every big school has these issues, but it isn’t until they get cited for one thing that people take a closer look and find out more wrongdoing.
Miami for example had issues all season with their basketball team only because of the whole Shapiro investigation, otherwise they would have never found out the stuff that made those players ineligible.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:02 PM
Craig Esherick was always good for quality meltdown sound bites
I credit Esherick for making Georgetown’s worst and fattest lottery pick into the fat man that he is today.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Giada de laurentis just needs to show her rack. Enough of this cleavage cock tease bullshit. Nobody cares what you’re making when you have a deep cut shirt
March 13th, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Sweetney!
March 13th, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Every time she has a little seizure and drops the authentic Italian pronunciation for parmesan or spaghetti I want to bash her face in. That shit pisses me off for some reason.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Husker, i agree. Even though she is 100% italian, its fucking annoying
March 13th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
id give giada my sopressata in a mario batali heartbeat.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Then speak with a fucking accent the entire time. Turning it on and off is just annoying. It comes off as pretentious and fake.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
I love food porn.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:08 PM
i have less a problem with this than i do madonna adopting a british accent for…?
March 13th, 2012 at 3:09 PM
There’s apparently a still from one episode where she had a nip slip. The fact that I’ve heard that before apparently makes me a resident porn expert according to NDub.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Not going to pretend to know or speculate. My Facebook timeline is a scary place to be right now. Idiots. Of course, that probably doesn’t reflect all that well on me.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:11 PM
She’s the type that will still look good in her fifties. I mean, she’s this attractive and she’s almost 42!
March 13th, 2012 at 3:11 PM
One of our baseball team kid’s mom has this issue. Really annoying – and, even though she was born here, lived there for about 7 years and has been back for about 6 years, she has the bad teeth to go with the accent.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:12 PM
TTE, what are the rochester people saying? I know people in Cuse are losing their mind on the radio right now
March 13th, 2012 at 3:18 PM
If we’re talking real people and not the jerk look-at-me Facebook version of people, I’ve had one conversation with a guy in my office who looked dejected but not surprised and said “well, that’s it then.” Pretty much, yeah.
Not listening to the radio, though I think John DiTullio is on right now and in general is a pretty reasonable and runs a mostly lunatic free show. Coincidentally, he’s a huge Penn State guy.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:20 PM
I just tuned in to his show online. They are talking RIT hockey. I did enjoy his show when i lived out there. Fairly sane..as opposed to the senile bob matthews on 1180 at night
March 13th, 2012 at 3:20 PM
The K-State people are ecstatic.
/Watches So. Miss waltz into the Sweet 16.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Ah, yep. AHA semis at Blue Cross this weekend.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:28 PM
No, and I don’t think it’s academics. If it were academics, SU wouldn’t even be allowed in the tourney b/c they would have been playing an ineligible player. I mean, how could he be eligible for Big East Tourney, but not NCAA Tournament
Also fascinating how SU kept this quiet again (like Onuaku’s injury two years ago to avoid de-seed)
March 13th, 2012 at 3:29 PM
My family is littered with RIT hockey alumni and RIT professors. Stupid ass parents moving out of NY cost me a line into that school.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Here’s Axe on Cuse radio
March 13th, 2012 at 3:31 PM
No way this happens unless Yahoo came a diggin’ and Charles Robinson had the drug story. Now they’re under the microscope. And obviously the only reason Yahoo came digging was the Bernie Fine scandal.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:35 PM
I mean, maybe that’s true. But maybe not. Melo has been under the microscope since shortly after he showed up in central NY, this hasn’t been a career for the program to brag about.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Who?
/98% of people filling out brackets
March 13th, 2012 at 3:44 PM
How did they keep it quiet? Do we know when this came down? It could have literally just happened. The Onuaku thing was on purpose so they didn’t get bumped to a 2, but This seems like the NCAA came down and told them not to play him. If the NCAA knew they are also culpable in “keeping it quiet.”
March 13th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Yeah, based on new info I probably wrote that prematurely. This is just crazy for the NCAA to just look into his eligibility now…unless they were tipped off.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
He’s just butthurt about anything involving players getting in trouble due to OSU.
Melo was suspended once for skipping classes. He got his shit together, or his tutors did, he was let back on the team. He’s suspended again. He could have fucked up in classes recently.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Why is it crazy when he was suspended for academic reasons six weeks ago?
March 13th, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Fab Melo molested Zach Tomaselli. It just happened last week
March 13th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Time frame doesn’t seem weird to me at all.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Yes that’s it.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Umm, because it opens up questions if he should have been ineligible all along. Also, he was at the Big East Tournament last week, so when did he skip classes that he would have had to attend?
March 13th, 2012 at 3:58 PM
Did the determination on his eligibility from the January suspension originally have any NCAA involvement? If he was deemed eligible I don’t see what the problem is.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
More importantly, how pissed should a Mizzou or Kansas be? Stiffed for a #1 seed, and now they watch as Ohio State’s stock rises being the #2 in the East. Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but hard to fathom that this wasn’t known prior to selection Sunday.
March 13th, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Why would they be pissed?
Syracuse is the weakest #1, and tOSU is the strongest #2.
March 13th, 2012 at 4:04 PM
When they seeded, Syracuse was the second #1. sparty was the weakest number one. OSU may have been ranked as strongest 2 but they are barely above Duke in my mind. mizzou is the strongest 2 to me
March 13th, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Yeah that’s the question. It did not appear so at the time, but nothing came out regarding that with any reports. If so, then it makes sense (although shame on the NCAA for allowing this to happen right after the selection show). If the NCAA is just getting involved now, then Cuse has some explaining to do as to why he was eligible
March 13th, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Makes sense.
Just seems weird to me that the NCAA would just now be getting involved. Syracuse were either one or two when he was suspended, it’s not like it was under the radar. Maybe the NCAA has been taking the whole time to decide and let him play in the interim. It’s interesting, but it doesn’t seem nefarious.
March 13th, 2012 at 4:15 PM
Absolutely agree. At least Kansas has the carrot of potentially playing for a Final Four berth in St. Louis. That would not be fun…
/UNC fan