Alabama’s Marcel Darius Case, Who’s Behind It All?

This weeks flurry of NCAA investigations involving agent contact with a number of suspected future first round NFL draft picks is becoming all too common. It's not so much the facts of the case, but the timing and the players involved. Nobody ever invites our third string nose tackle or the backup punter to South Beach. Around this time last year, Alabama was waiting to hear about the eligibility of star players, Mark Ingram and Julio Jones. That wait would continue into fall practices and would not be cleared up until just before the critical Virginia Tech contest. Virginia Tech held a lead into the second half of that game, so there is no question missing two of Alabama 's best players could have derailed a National Championship season before it even started. One year later we have the same sort of issue, a player is invited somewhere only to find he was being baited for another purpose. Now with fall practices two weeks away, the NCAA has a massive case l...