New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with another in a series of highly critical commentary on the NCAA. This most recent deals with the rather strange circumstances of the eligibility of University of Connecticut's freshman point guard Ryan Boatright.

“The N.C.A.A. is like the Gestapo,” wrote one parent in an e-mail. “It’s out there, we all fear it, and it is all-powerful and follows its own rules and makes them up as they go along. Who are they protecting? The same thing the Gestapo protected: themselves.”