The NCAA’s report, released Friday, regarding its investigation into Syracuse Athletics, SU basketball, football and sanctions against them outlines a series of events for ‘student-athlete 1’ that closely matches those of former Syracuse point guard Billy Edelin.

Edelin played a troubled career for SU from 2002-05.

Student-athlete 1’s story is covered in pages 7-13 of the report and largely focuses on his relationship with “the representative,” a full-time state employee who worked at the Tri-Valley YMCA in Oneida who the NCAA and SU agreed was “a representative of the institution’s athletic interests.”

“When student-athlete 1 was confronted with a legal matter, the institution’s judicial affairs board dismissed him from campus for one-year and required him to perform 100 hours of community service,” the report reads.

Edelin initially enrolled at SU in 2001 but was suspended that October after being accused of sexual misconduct by two female students. He completed 100 hours of community service during the ensuing suspension, according to multiple reports at the time.

The representative supervised and verified student-athlete 1’s community service, according to the NCAA report.

No members of SU visited the site where student-athlete 1 was to be performing his community service, according to the report. The representative told the NCAA that he paid student-athlete 1, and four others, according to the report. Jim Boeheim, “the head basketball coach,” knew that student-athlete 1 was paid for work at the YMCA but thought the director of compliance knew about it and that it was OK, according to the report.

The report specifically notes a footnote 7 of page 7 of that “after he served the suspension he returned as an integral member of the men’s basketball team that won the 2002-03 NCAA Division I National Championship.” Edelin averaged nine points and 2.5 assists per game for the Orangemen that year.

Student athlete 1’s enrollment ended after the 2004-05 academic year, according to the report. As was widely reported at the time, so did Edelin’s.

Published on March 7, 2015 at 5:52 pm

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