It's June, and there are no more Rebel sports, so why not take a gander at some of the more colorful revelations from Ole Miss' response letter to the NCAA?
Early in Ole Miss' response letter to the NCAA Notice of Allegations released last month, the university shrewdly points out that, by the time this matter is all said and done, it will have paid out more than $1.5 million in legal and investigative fees for a probe that unearthed little more than $15,000 worth of impermissible benefits to student-athletes.
Such a monstrous sum in the interests of turning up such a paltry infraction betrays two absurdities of today's NCAA: (1) that the organizing body of collegiate athletics and its member institutions are abundantly well-coined enough to pay their revenue sports laborers a fair wage; and (2) that the NCAA is so doofily self-important, and yet so woefully not self-aware, it's willing to air out a laundry bill in excess of a million dollars to justify some sort of punishment on an institution of higher learning in order to teach that institution about the rules of fair play and just action.