Fair Or Foul? Latino College Football Player Suspended For Being Homeless

*NCAA athlete housing rules have been under close watch since the USC Reggie Bush scandal. But there is an important difference here. Nacita made the Baylor team as a walk-on – no scholarship, no housing plan. VL

By Michael Duarte, Latin Times

Allow me to paint you a picture… you’re a 20-year old college football player without a dime to your name. You have no job, no scholarship, just a dream to play college football and graduate from a major university. After a year at McLennan Community College in Waco, TX you walk on to the Baylor University football team; one of the top college football programs in the country.

In your first season you rush for 191 yards and three touchdowns while averaging a staggering 6.2 yards per carry. You become a local sensation as Bears fans wear sombreros and luchador masks to honor your Hispanic heritage. All the while, chanting your nickname, “Salsa Nacho!” But, despite your success on the field you still don’t have a dollar to your name, or a place to lay your head. You drift from apartment floor to apartment floor and even spend weeks sleeping underneath the stairs at a local park.

Does this picture sound more like a nightmare than a dream? If so, welcome to the life of a Silas Nacita. Nacita was ruled ineligible earlier this week for violating NCAA rules. According to Baylor’s Athletic Director Ian McCaw, Nacita broke NCAA rules by accepting funds from his family friends in order to provide him with an apartment to live in.

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