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New 'Rich Paul Rule' Targeted at Agents Is NCAA's Latest Blunder

If colleges awarded bachelor’s degrees in Arrogance and Self-Delusion, NCAA bigwigs would have an easy double major, and then they would be qualified to advise the players they claim to love so deeply.

The ancient monolith is letting basketball players who test the NBA draft talk to agents. But not just any agents. According to ESPN, those agents must have a bachelor's degree, National Basketball Players’ Association certification for at least three consecutive years, professional liability insurance and completion of an in-person exam taken at the NCAA office in Indianapolis in early November.

All the agents should really need is NBPA certification; if the players’ union trusts an agent, the NCAA should, to.