—A reminder that Louisville football is holding its season preview fan event this Saturday night at Cardinal Stadium.
—The NCAA continues to be the worst, and pretty much everyone who covers college sports wrote about it on Wednesday.
This was all about enforcement, which is to say this was about protecting the money. It’s about not even bothering to address the free-market value of players, making a move toward the Olympic model that allows for sponsorship or endorsement opportunities or even truly protecting student-athletes.
Consider that the NCAA could have addressed academic fraud, most famously revealed in the scandal over no-work classes at the University of North Carolina.