Luke Winn of SI.com has written an incredible story about the journey of Skal Labissiere to the Kentucky Basketball roster.
But of course, with all the rumors floating around about Labissiere’s eligibility issues, here is an excerpt that focuses on just that.
At the center of this situation is Gerald Hamilton and the conflicting opinions over whether he and Reach Your Dream are doing the Lord’s work of bettering a student-athlete’s life (as he and Labissiere assert) or using a prospect to leverage donations to a 501(c)(3) charity. According to one college coach who recruited Labissiere, but did not sign him, Hamilton controlled access to the extent that “you were not allowed to talk to Skal, and the only way you could know he liked you was if he liked your Instagrams.