To play or not to play, judges make call for former JUCO talents

LOS ANGELES — We’ve all been enrolled at Make It Make Sense University. It turns out it’s a fraudulent diploma mill.

Instead of an updated textbook, we’ve opened a Pandora’s Box of problems, and every string that’s pulled – well-intentioned or otherwise – tears at the fabric of what made college sports wonderful.

In the thick of this mess now with no roadmap and no flashlight, we do have judges – real-world referees and umpires – creating new precedent every day, for the day. Which isn’t much of a precedent at all.

Take Diego Pavia’s case against the NCAA. If you’re a USC or UCLA football fan, you’ve heard of it. Last November, the Vanderbilt quarterback sued the NCAA, arguing that the two years he spent playing in junior college before getting a Division I offer shouldn’t count toward