The Silliness of NCAA Eligibility Rules

Last night's news that Notre Dame football player Tom Zbikowski will make his professional boxing debut this summer exposes the silliness of NCAA eligibility rules, which were used to stop skiier / CU football player Jeremy Bloom from both playing football and earning endorsement monies to subsidize his expensive skiing competitions. Why Coach Weis would "sign off" on letting one of his players get punched in the head a few months before ND begins its hunt for the national championship is a mystery to me. Equally mysterious is how any reasoned distinction can be drawn between letting athletes get paid to box, and letting them endorse brightly colored ski pants. Hat tip to UT 2L James Schwegler for forwarding me the story.

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