"I hope you read the background stories on the 'diploma mills' that exist as 'private schools' so that athletes can go and play college sports without - you know - actually having to pass any real courses. A Miami 'correspondence academy' is now under scrutiny by the Florida High School Athletic Association and the state attorney general and the NCAA.

What did the NCAA do? They formed a committee to look into this matter; it will likely make some findings known to some board or panel within the NCAA in about 2 years and the board or panel might think about some new rules that relate to the situation.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the NCAA under Dr. Myles Brand at work and ever vigilant to assure that athletic programs stay within the mainstream purpose of the university institutions. When is anyone in the national media going to call out this jamoke on his hypocrisy and his pomposity? The NCAA vice president for membership services has already said that students other than athletes are using some of these diploma mills and so this is 'a bigger problem than something for the sports pages.' OK, so what the hell are you folks going to do about this 'bigger problem' sometime before the glaciers come again?"