CLEMSON — Brad Brownell says college basketball has gone crazy with the way coaches and players are trying to skirt NCAA rules to get around eligibility issues.

A former G-League player, who played at Alabama from 2021-’23 before going professional, returned to the Crimson Tide late last month after he secured a temporary restraining order against the NCAA, allowing him to immediately play for Alabama despite having signed a professional contract.

Other teams, such as SMU and Arkansas, are signing foreign players who have played professionally overseas, but are enrolling as freshman at ages 21- or 22-years old. Arkansas added 7-foot-1 forward/center Paulo Semedo from Angola and 6-foot-11 center Elmir Dzafic from Bosnia.

SMU features 7-foot-2 center Samet Yigitoglu.

“I do not know what the NCAA can do about it,” Clemson’s head basketball coach said. “It seems like their hands are tied because people just go around the rules. Now we have hearings with the judges that are graduates of the school.

“Bizarre is not the word for me anymore. I do not know what to expect.”

Brownell feels for the NCAA. No matter what the NCAA tries to enforce, a player signs a lawyer and threatens to sue.

“I think it is hard because I have heard people from the NCAA say that every time they try to put a rule in and enforce it, coaches try to go around it,” he said. “Everybody is looking at ways to go around things. It seems like all the schools are not agreeing on the CSC (College Sports Commission).

“I do not know. I do think we have lost control here in terms of college sports. Whether we are talking about guys that have played in the G-League…Now we have a guy that has played in an NBA game that is trying to come back. Some of the international kids that are coming over at 21-years old or 22-years old and our being deemed freshmen after playing professionally overseas for a couple of years, that seems crazy to me.”

Brownell’s concern? High school kids are getting left out.

“I do think there has to be some protection for the 18- and 19-year-old kid that is trying to go to college,” he said. “In terms of what you can do to get there, I really do not know and do not think many people do beyond getting congress involved, which seems very unlikely.”