I can’t stop thinking about this Wofford basketball situation because it’s just so perfectly absurd. Like, if you tried to write fiction this stupid, nobody would believe it. But here we are, living in a world where a successful basketball program gets blown up over meal plan benefits worth less than a night out at Applebee’s.

Let me walk you through this mess, because every detail makes it worse.

How It All Started

So back in summer 2025, six Wofford basketball players, including five junior transfers, got promised they’d live in the good dorms. You know, the upperclassmen ones with actual bathrooms attached instead of having to walk down the hall at 2 AM. Pretty basic stuff for college juniors.

August comes around and whoops, never mind! They’re getting shoved into freshman dorms instead. Classic college move, promise one thing, deliver another, act like it never happened.

Tysor Anderson, the associate head coach, sees this happening and actually tries to help. He asks the players what they want to do, stick it out in the crappy dorms or find their own place and pay for it themselves. They pick option two, which honestly makes sense.

So the players find apartments, sign leases, move in. Anderson tells the administration what’s happening because that’s what you’re supposed to do. Everyone thinks the problem is solved.

Then Everything Goes Sideways

Five days into classes, someone decides the players need to break their leases to stay eligible. So these kids have to pay whatever fees come with breaking a lease and scramble to find new housing. Already a nightmare, but it gets dumber.

Two weeks later, September 17, they find out they’re ineligible anyway because they used their meal plans while living off-campus. Nobody had mentioned this rule before. The big scary “impermissible benefits”? Between $84 and $108 per player.

I need to say that again because it’s so ridiculous: Six college basketball players got ruled ineligible over meal plan usage worth less than most people’s grocery bill.

The Coaches Get Thrown Under the Bus

Wofford fired both head coach Dwight Perry and assistant coach Tysor Anderson last week. Perry’s only 37 and just led the team to the NCAA tournament after winning the conference tournament. This is a guy who was building something real.

Anderson? The dude who tried to help players when the school messed up their housing gets fired too. His crime was literally asking players what they wanted to do about their housing situation and then telling the administration about it.

The timing is brutal too, season starts in less than two months and these coaches just got axed over what’s basically the school not communicating properly.

The Players Want Their Coaches Back

Mark Peper represents seven players on the team, and he says all of them want Perry and Anderson reinstated. These aren’t just random players either, a lot of them transferred to Wofford specifically to play for these coaches.

The players have some leverage here. NCAA rules give them 30 days after a coaching change to enter the transfer portal. If their coaches don’t get reinstated, they could all leave, which would basically kill the program. A team that made the tournament six months ago might not even exist next season.

Where Things Stand Now

The players got reinstated with no penalties or repayment required, but the coaches are still gone. The players want them back, but you know how these things go, institutions hate admitting they screwed up this badly.

What kills me is that this was totally avoidable. Someone at Wofford couldn’t keep their housing promises, another person didn’t communicate clearly about meal plan rules, and now a successful basketball program is in ruins over it.

The whole thing just feels so unnecessarily destructive. These coaches weren’t cheating or doing anything shady, they were trying to help players navigate a situation the school created. Now they’re unemployed and the program they built might not survive.

It’s the kind of story that makes you wonder why we even bother with all these rules in the first place. Like, what exactly are we protecting here? The integrity of meal plans? The sanctity of cafeteria access?

Sometimes I think college athletics would be better if everyone just stopped pretending any of this makes sense and admitted it’s all completely arbitrary.