Welcome in to another Inside Carolina Daily. I'm Tommy Ashley. It is Thursday, January 22nd, a little bit later, getting this out to you today, late night ball games and late night work. We'll do that for you. That's Greg Barnes, sponsored by Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com. Go to Inside Carolina sign up for the premium membership for a dollar. Greg, the NCAA continues to amaze.

Only this time we're talking about,

are they dead yet?

Not are we there yet?

Are they dead yet?

NCAA dying on the vine.

Just another example is a player,

a professional player being allowed to come back to college.

What times we live in, Greg?

For sure, Tommy.

And let's be clear, the NCAA is dead.

They just don't know it yet.

That's kind of where we're at.

As I've said before,

the NCAA puts on some incredible postseason tournaments and the, uh, eligibility clearinghouse seems to do a pretty good job.

Beyond that, it serves, serves a little purpose.

And I know a lot of people are up in arms about, uh, kind of what's happened first with James Naji at Baylor and now Charles

Bediaco at Alabama but we've seen this coming for a long time and I think

one of the one of the issues with a Betiaco situation is with Naji a lot of the

conversation was the fact that that he had not actually signed

an NBA contract and that he still was within his eligibility window.

And so there was an exception made.

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