If Lucca was declared eligible even for 1 game

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I would assume, since they are ruling him ineligible for the year, NOT suspending him (two entirely different things), that if he were to be ruled eligible for the season (i.e. the NCAA was wrong), were he not to play at all the rest of the year, he could still be eligible for a red shirt.

The NCAA is saying that he is forfeiting a season of eligibility, not a season of games. It's a small, but important, difference.

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Ain't going to happen under any circumstances. First the NCAA does not do, "Whoops, our bad, we'll give you the whole year back." Second, if they do let him play this year, who would want him to sit out the year, and who would ask him, "why don't you just wait till next year" after this whole fiasco. Lastly, he's probably a real smart kid who wants to graduate in four years and get on with his life--hopefully in the NBA.

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Ain't going to happen under any circumstances. First the NCAA does not do, "Whoops, our bad, we'll give you the whole year back." Second, if they do let him play this year, who would want him to sit out the year, and who would ask him, "why don't you just wait till next year" after this whole fiasco. Lastly, he's probably a real smart kid who wants to graduate in four years and get on with his life--hopefully in the NBA.

Actually, that's precisely what the appeals committee could force the NCAA to say. Obviously you can't go back and play games that you should have been eligible for, but going forward, you would be eligible for a year of competition, even if that year is shorter than the full season of games. Playing in any games during that season would cost you a season of eligibility. So I would think it's technically possible he could redshirt. That being said, McDermott would be an idiot to allow him to at this point, before the Big 12 season kicks off.