Happens all the time. Camby at UMass, etc. In recent years, a number of recruits (e.g., Wall) have been ruled temporary ineligible for taking small amounts of money during AAU. They have been required to pay it back and sit out a few games. This is a question of amateurism. If you receive benefits that are not available to other students on the basis on your ability to play the sport in question (here, basketball), then you are no longer an amateur. Now, the NCAA has allowed individuals to "rehabilitate" their amateurism eligibility, such as the example I gave above. And that is what Louisville has argued and continues to argue in their fight again vacation of games. Their argument is that if this was discovered at the time, the players would have been able to rehabilitate and only lost a few games. But the NCAA will argue in return that (1) the "nature" of the benefits here matter (i.e., this is far worse than just cash -- this is buying sex for players/recruits, many of whom were underage), and (2) the players were ineligible the moment they took impermissible benefits and we can't just let it go on the basis that it was not discovered until after-the-fact, not to mention the problem of trying to calculate restitution for sex acts.
