Round Two: More on college sports confusion

Last week in Round Two, I discussed how almost nothing about college sports makes sense anymore, including simple math (the Big Ten Conference has 18 teams) and geography (two California schools, Stanford and Cal, are now in the Atlantic Coast Conference).

And if you think the madness stops there, it doesn’t. Name Image Likeness and the transfer portal recently had what few constraints existed completely removed. Athletes are now considered to be university employees, which means NIL, which previously had been the domain of collectives that raised money to pay a school’s athletes, is essentially funded by the schools themselves — meaning amateur college athletes are now, by definition, professionals.