So sad: hole in one.

I realize there's the opportunity for schools to set up "charity" golf events with big prizes for everyone if an example isn't set and a line drawn in the sand, but this is ridiculous.  The event was an innocent charity golf outing and the kid hit a miracle shot.  Let him ride off into the sunset with his Harley and never look back.

It's gotten to the point that every NCAA rule can be challenged and the broad, sweeping "no" to every challenge just isn't a legitimate solution.  There are simply too many rules and too many "shades of gray" situations that the NCAA cannot handle.  At some point the organization will have to sit down and simplify things and usher in an era of greater enforcement and monitoring (expensive) but also leniency (humane) or the entire organization will collapse under the powers of its own hypocrisy.

A wave of lawsuits are eventually on the horizon and the NCAA may not be able to afford/successfully challenge all of them.  Whether the organization chooses to proactively save itself or fall down in one swift blow is their choice.

The paradigm shift is coming, it's just a matter of identifying that tipping point when events come together to usher in a new "NCAA" reality.

What small or large event will create the change?  I don't know, but I'm curious.  All I know is that the NCAA in its current condition cannot persist forever.

Anyone have Malcolm Gladwell on speed dial?