There is no doubt that paying kids fathers and so forth for “speaking” needs to be stopped. This is just a no brainer. Yes, it’s legal and I have defended the practice as an ethical dilemma for coaches, but it needs to be outlawed.

I also think that players should be ineligible to attend schools where some influential person in their lives (talk about a nightmare definition) has been hired at the university under consideration within a certain number of years of their signing there. Rick Pitino did it back when Jamaal Magliore was being recruited, and other schools have done similar. That just needs to stop, and the only way it ever will is by NCAA legislation. They also need to stop the paying of officials by schools during the off season to go off on junkets to referee games.

None of this stuff is that hard or complicated, and if the NABC thinks they can stop it, they are delusional. Besides, sooner or later a major offender or three is going to wind up running the NABC.

We make rules to define the limits of behavior, and rules are made to be parsed.