Ohio State and the Big Ten Put an End to the Most Recent NCAA Nonsense
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As if the NCAA couldn't get any more bizarre, this week started one of the craziest trends that the sport has ever seen.
One day removed from playing in a preseason game with the Cleveland Browns, former Ole Miss tight end Dae'Quan Wright was granted another year of eligibility by a Louisiana judge, which would allow him to basically enter the transfer portal from the Browns and be eligible to play in college football.
This was a crack in the dam that truthfully no one saw coming.
Of course, at the heart of this story is Lane Kiffin, who was recruiting Wright and his former teammate, once a New Orleans Saint, Zxavian Harris. That is a topic that could take up 400-plus words in and of itself.
For now, we will focus on the fact that the NCAA was on the verge of complete and total anarchy in the sport. Not only can players do pretty much whatever they want at this moment, but they can also now come back to college if they have eligibility left.
Well, before this could catch fire in the Big Ten, they quickly came together to rule this scenario out.
On Tuesday, it was announced that the conference met to pass a rule that doesn't allow transfers between the NFL and College Football. If you are thinking, "no duh," you'd be 100 percent right.
The final rule that was agreed to states that if any team violates it, they will sacrifice 50 percent of their contest, and they will incur an institutional fine.
The result of this proposal received a unanimous vote of approval.
As if it actually needed a vote of approval, but it still got one, and it was 100 percent in favor of keeping pros pros and college players college players.
Many coaches, including Ohio State's Ryan Day, spoke out against this and basically said that they don't agree with it, but it is their responsibility to explore it if it makes their team better.
Thankfully, that will never come to fruition in the Big Ten. Naturally, the conference that is always in constant competition with the SEC had to step in and show just one ounce of brainpower to decide how crazy this whole situation was.
The floodgates cracked open when those two players entering the portal were able to do so without penalty. The Big Ten shut them down immediately and led the way for the other conferences to follow suit.
Yes, including that one.
The crazy days in college football continue to get crazier.
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