During the 1980s and ’90s, Virginia Tech and Virginia ran afoul of the NCAA. Rules were broken, sanctions levied, jobs lost. High-profile jobs held by accomplished men.

The UVA athletic director who later served as executive director of the NCAA and the United States Olympic Committee. The winningest men’s basketball coach in Tech history, the school’s football coach/AD and president.

As college sports commences revenue sharing with athletes — a federal judge in California approved the historic step late Friday night — many of the violations that occurred in Charlottesville and Blacksburg seem downright irrelevant.

Such a revision speaks to the clarity of hindsight and the evolution of how subsidies for college athletes are viewed by the public and, most telling, the courts.

The Suprem

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