[BostonCard]

Athletes in professional European leagues who harbor NCAA ambitions will have to decline payment.  They are allowed only "routine expenses".

https://www.athleticscholarships.net/ama...eign-2.htm

Cal is mentioned (for a different foreign player, from Turkey):

In 2000, Nihan Anaz left Turkey to sign with South Carolina’s women’s basketball team. She had played from 1997–1999 in a league that the NCAA classifies as professional.
“Her eligibility was not a problem because she didn’t get paid,” South Carolina’s Walvius said.
Anaz played a full schedule for South Carolina in 2000–2001, left the school for personal reasons, and played a full schedule as a sophomore in 2001-2002 for two years at Weatherford College in Parker County. She then signed with California.
Cal’s compliance director, Fody Mellis, looked into Anaz’s background and told the NCAA that she had played on a team supported by a professional organization.
“She had to sit out some games,” Mellis said. “She should have done that at South Carolina, and they never held her out.”

It appear that at least some of it is open to interpretation from compliance specialists.

BC

[BostonCard]

Athletes in professional European leagues who harbor NCAA ambitions will have to decline payment.  They are allowed only "routine expenses".

https://www.athleticscholarships.net/ama...eign-2.htm

Cal is mentioned (for a different foreign player, from Turkey):

In 2000, Nihan Anaz left Turkey to sign with South Carolina’s women’s basketball team. She had played from 1997–1999 in a league that the NCAA classifies as professional.
“Her eligibility was not a problem because she didn’t get paid,” South Carolina’s Walvius said.
Anaz played a full schedule for South Carolina in 2000–2001, left the school for personal reasons, and played a full schedule as a sophomore in 2001-2002 for two years at Weatherford College in Parker County. She then signed with California.
Cal’s compliance director, Fody Mellis, looked into Anaz’s background and told the NCAA that she had played on a team supported by a professional organization.
“She had to sit out some games,” Mellis said. “She should have done that at South Carolina, and they never held her out.”

It appear that at least some of it is open to interpretation from compliance specialists.

BC