Ace is completely oblivious. Literally, every step of the way with the Trier situation, including the beginning of the season, he's been proven wrong. Now he has the audacity to keep denigrating others while cleaning the egg off of his face? Dude is a narcissist in every form and I hope, albeit unlikely due to his cult-like followers, that this situation cripples his site as he's a giant embarrassment to not only the university, but to journalism.
He's on record as saying if Trier doesn't come back he will delete PGU.
Of course if he didn't coem back he wouldn't delete it he'd say the NCAA changed their minds blah blah. He's just guessing.
The reason this rumor started is Trier went from street clothes to sweats on the bench and that suddenly made it appear he was more engaged so he must be coming back. I remember seeing on PGU people discussing how long would it take for him to get in shape once he started practicing. Then it came out, not on PGU, that he has apparently been practicing all along. And during this entire discussion of how long it would take him, not one person who had this inside knowledge from the pay part of PGU bothered to say well he's practicing already. Which of course means they didn't know, and that's because Ace didn't know.
I think his prediction is vague enough that unless Trier never plays again for UA he can claim hes' right.
If you read that thread he posts a link to an explanation of the NCAA appeals process, and said explanation completely contradicts what he says is going on. It has a timeline and the last 2 things on the timeline are NCAA notifies school and individual their final ruling on appeal, then public announcement. He's been saying for nearly 2 weeks now that they've cleared Trier, so where is the public announcement? he's claiming they can't do it because the appeals process is anonymous, they get a case with no name and they rule on the case so if they made an announcement about Trier, then it would bias the case. But that's completely stupid he's claiming they already exonerated him.
It's not even clear to me the appeals process even applies if it's a PED thing, that appears to be a completely separate process. When his suspension rumor first came out the first thing I heard was he was suspended for taking gifts from Kevin Durant. I've mentioned that before he met Durant during KD's rookie year in Seattle, Trier was a youtube sensation there and they became friends. Trier even appears in a commercial with Durant and assured the NCAA he wasn't paid for it. Trier has openly talked about his extensive collection of shoes and "gear" and has admitted much of it comes from Durant. The reason he moved to OKC and played HS ball there(home schooled league) was because the Sonics moved to OKC and he moved to follow Durant. So that rumor made total sense, NCAA just decided the entire basis of their friendship was basketball, Trier had presumably crossed a line on how much he took, and was suspended. It seemed logical he was planning on going pro, took more gifts from Durant, then changed his mind to stay and was now suspended over said gifts.
But then the PED rumor came out and was so consistent that I assumed the money rumor was false. Now 97Cats is claiming it's academics which we already know UA makes public since they did with Comanche. So why isn't his suspension public if it's academics? And why is he allowed to practice, PED, Academics, money all 3 of them you're not supposed to practice, even when under appeal from what I understand.
This is a really weird one, I guess eventually the truth will be known.
