Sunday morning buffet

Eat those damned bagels any way you want to.

• Dos and don’ts for car flags and magnets.
• Auburn’s compliance director makes about $60k a year less than what was allegedly asked for Cam’s services.
• Georgia’s beat writers staged a silent protest of SEC media rules at a recent Mark Richt presser.  (h/t Lrgk9)
• Joe Posnanski explores bracket creep as major league baseball plans on adding another wild-card team to its playoffs.
• Tony Barnhart points out how football has made the ACC basketball tourney just another four-day event.
• The LSU players’ bar fight generates a wonderful Miles malapropism:  “So first and foremost, I take discredit for that event.”
• Kirk Olivadotti thinks Alec Ogletree looks better than some of the guys he coached with the Redskins.  Of course, the question is whether he can play as well as some of those guys did.
• “The formation of three or four superconferences, which is going to happen eventually, is a reaction to the consolidation in the distribution marketplace.”  Sadly, I can buy that.
• Here’s the story on Boise State’s right tackle, who is scheduled to get his first start protecting Kellen Moore’s blind side against Georgia.

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Oy vey, NCAA.

I should probably save this (h/t John Infante) for a buffet item, but it’s too deliciously perfect an illustration of what’s so screwed up about the NCAA not to deserve its own special place on the GTP posting menu.

… But it turns out the biggest story about National Collegiate Athletic Association violations had nothing to do with the corrupting influence of Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro.

It had to do with cream cheese. Yes, the corrupting influence of free cream cheese.

I know. You probably missed this shmear campaign. It was buried on Page 118 of an NCAA report dealing with proposed rulebook changes for next year.

The report, which suggests 91 rule changes, tackles the dispensation of free bagels to student-athletes.

‘You gotta put something on it’

As it stands now, schools can give their athletes free bagels, but not free cream cheese.

An existing NCAA rule allows schools to provide their student-athletes “fruit, nuts and bagels” any time of day.

But nothing on the bagel. See the problem?

Problem?  More like a crime against nature.  But more importantly, what kind of mindset does it take to come up with a hair-splitting proposal like that in the first place?