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The NCAA Has New Basketball Eligibility & Recruiting Rules.... And They’re Maybe Not Any Good

In case you have been living under three rocks lately, the NCAA has been making some changes to their rules regarding college basketball, recruiting, and eligibility ever since the FBI found out that there were more people on the take working in the college hoops industry than in Prohibition-era Chicago. After the initial round of proposals from the Rice Commission (#CondiWatch) was not greeted with resounding enthusiasm, the NCAA decided to follow up with another salvo of actual new and approved rules on Wednesday which has been meet with a healthy dose of skepticism, although skepticism is still better than the downright outrage the first reforms were met with.