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We said it over on our Twitter feed, but it bears repeating. The NCAA drove another nail into the coffin of its demise with the capricious, arbitrary ruling it issued yesterday on the eligibility of Auburn quarterback Cam Newton.

For those of you not familiar with the story, in brief: Newton's father, a minister, solicited $200,000 from Mississippi State University in an effort to influence his son's decision about where he might play college football. (Oh and theoretically attend classes.) Mississippi State balked. The scam was outed in recent weeks. The NCAA, despite rules explicitly stating the opposite, said yesterday that because it had no evidence that the younger Newton and Auburn knew about the attempted racketeering of father, Cam Newton would be eligible to play.

This is all relevant because Newton's latest (he also attended Univ. of Fl., and a junior college in his illustrious academic career) school, Auburn, is vying for the BCS National Championship of college football. The whole enterprise could hardly be more corrupt. But that is not the issue today, the issue today that has folks up in arms, especially USC and UNC supporters is the utter hypocrisy of the NCAA. The NCAA previously severely punished USC despite the university's lack of knowledge about its star recruit's parents' extortion. UNC withheld football players from participating in games for much smaller offenses, to its own detriment.

The NCAA's ruling on Auburn not only kicks sand in their faces, but costs them money. Lots of money.

Their supporters are livid, as is every college football fan who is not an Auburn undergrad or alum.

The NCAA was already going to be dissolved in the next not so many years because the big football schools did not want to divide the football revenue pie so many ways. The Clarion Content noted this during the college football preseason when conference expansion and realignment was all the talk. Yesterday's ruling on Cam Newton just pushed forward the date this epic realignment and finally a college football playoff arrive.

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