I got yer plantation for you, right here.

I don’t know if any of you flipped through the rest of the NCAA override report I linked to yesterday, but if you didn’t, I suggest you pop it open again, turn to page fifteen and prepare to become pissed off.  I know I am. It’s the response to proposal 2011-97, which allows schools to offer scholarships as multi-year grants.  As much crap as I toss in Mark Emmert’s direction, here’s something he’s pushed that deserves nothing but praise.  It’s laudable for at least two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:  it strikes a legitimate blow against the roster management excesses most of us find objectionable and it drills in the point to every student-athlete that a scholarship isn’t more than a one-year commitment unless it says so in writing. Another plus is that it gives smaller schools a market-based tool to use in the recruiting wars.  Duelling one-year offers between an SEC school and a Sun Belt school may seem like a no-bra...