Ole Miss' preemptive benching of Tunsil serves nobody but NCAA lawyers, their wallets, and the league's inflated sense of self-importance.
The NCAA's latest effort to exert its venal, exploitative choke-hold on the livelihoods and eligibilities of those it professes to protect has landed in Oxford, where All-American offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil is now on the receiving end of microscopic examinations into his extended use of a rental car that may or may not have been paid for, according to ESPN's Chris Low.
Details are so far mercurial and scarce on Tunsil's supposed violations -- Neal McCready, for what it's worth, hinted that Low is severely misinformed about Tunsil's infraction -- but the specifics of those violations are not wholly pertinent to the larger question of why this investigation began in the first place.