The NCAA has always struck me as an archaic racket.
Yeah, they’re addicted to maintaining an illusion that has no meaning and in so doing they hold athletes to a standard no other student is held to. Really nobody is going to stop a CSC student on a full ride from getting a job. Really the day they decided Johnny Manziel (from a rich family who could afford good lawyers) would only be “suspended” for part of a game for selling his autograph for thousands while Ohio State players lost their eligibility for getting some free tattoos should have been the end. I wish they’d actually tried to seriously punish Manziel, not cause he deserved it, but because the lawyers his family could afford would have ended this silliness by now.