Chansky’s Notebook: Chaos In The Making

Posted Aug 10, 2018
What’s wrong with the new NCAA rules? Almost everything. Critics from coaches to former players to lawyers have come out en masse against the new set of convoluted NCAA rules thrust upon college basketball this week without running them by any kind of focus group. In the long run, few of these new rules will fly, so the Rice Commission will have to go back to the drawing board. (Chapelboro.com)

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