“How did you go bankrupt?"
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway published those words in 1926, twenty years after the NCAA was created at the behest of President Teddy Roosevelt. The notion that American college students should compete as amateurs was quaint for a while, but it was never really true. Movement towards a more authentic paradigm has been more glacial than gradual, but rejoice, for the bell has finally tolled for college sports. The future has suddenly arrived.
Wednesday’s news that the NCAA Board of Governors approved a settlement in the landmark House vs. NCAA case was expected, yet seismic all the same. It followed similar votes proffered by the Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC. The old Pac-12