The NCAA's Agent Enforcement Crusade Threatens To Be Epidemic

The NCAA declared Investigeddon last weekend, hiring Michael Bay to spill fireworks over message boards and ESPN by launching, announcing, or leaking investigations of star players at North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida in the wake of some very dumb tweets from UNC DT Marvin Austin (pictured). As one toxic player (Austin) directly implicated another (SC TE Weslye Saunders) and Florida got roped in for something that may not be directly related but is remarkably timed for something totally independent, something occurred to me about how these cases are different than the NCAA's run-of-the-mill case wherein coaching staff X or booster Y violates bylaw Z. Those incidents are self-contained errors by one coaching staff or one set of overzealous fans with no knowledge of goings-on that could damage other universities. Meanwhile, the NCAA's agent crackdown is contagious. It has an infection rate. Player A tweets something about bottle service at a South Beach club, b...