Programming note: Slices of Tuna will take some time off from its Monday-Wednesday-Friday offseason routine as we put the finishing touches on some longer preseason content.
Enjoy your last CFB-free weekend!
1. What the?
Actual college football kicks off in eight days, and there are players who just played in NFL preseason games who are now trying to join college rosters in time for kickoff.
“CFB is so broken man,” one personnel staffer texted Thursday, unsolicited.
Find a friendly judge, and anything is possible.
That’s how eight former players were able to enter the portal Wednesday, as they were granted a restraining order in a Louisiana court case.
Give Greg Sankey credit for reportedly trying to put a stop to this, I guess. But this is a classic case of the old adage about pigs getting fat and hogs getting slaughtered.
How many billions — amid thousands of billable hours — had the powerbrokers in charge of college sports spent across the past 150 years or so in an attempt to not give players so much as an inch in their battle for being able to profit off their college exploits?
How often did we hear some version of Only the top 1 percent will actually make money.
How many decision-makers threatened to take their ball and go home if this billion-dollar enterprise actually allowed its labor to earn money?
It was nonsense then.
It’s nonsense now.
This is a bill past due, and we are now all witnesses to the carnage in its wake.
