Imagine getting a telephone call and the voice on the other end says, “Congratulations, you just won a new car.” That’s fantastic, you think, before you hear the person say, “All you have to do to claim it is pay us $25,000” You’d classify that as a scam call. But not if it came from the NCAA Division I Council. Then you’d view it as a reprieve, a bonus, a gift. That’s not to say the NCAA’s decision to extend the eligibility clock of every spring sports athlete robbed of a season this year by COVID-19 precautions that cancelled competition is a bad thing. It’s a good thing. It’s the right thing. But it’s also a very hard thing. Hard, if you’re one of those athletes — and the vast majority are — who don’t receive a full athletic scholarship. As a fan, you hear, “extra season of eligibility,” and…
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