NCAA is a joke: grants UCLA a waiver.

The NCAA is just brimming with hypocrisy.

First it granted Ohio State players last year, the opportunity to play in the Sugar Bowl, despite ruling them ineligible, in part, because those players pledged to return the next year to serve out their suspensions.  And then Pryor left, without any penalties served.

Now it has granted UCLA -- which is expected to lose to Oregon in the inaugural PAC-12 championship game and end up with a 6-7 record -- a waiver to play in a bowl game.

A side joke: UCLA is so proud of its team, that they fired their coach, immediately enforced after the championship game.  A second side joke: in UCLA's waiver, their primary excuse ran along the lines that it was USC's fault (USC, by virtue of being ineligible, forced UCLA to play for the championship, thereby making them ineligible for a bowl game, were they to lose, as expected, to Oregon).

Talk about zero self-pride at UCLA -- and the NCAA rewarded them for it!

So we come to USC.  None of the players have anything to do with Reggie Bush.  None of them have committed violations.  But they don't get a waiver from the penalties inflicted by a conflicted Paul Dee, whose own problems at Miami led the Hurricanes to disqualify themselves (having a 6-6 season made it easier to swallow) this year for a bowl game.

It just doesn't make any sense.  But as the NCAA is wont to do, they excuse their actions by simply explaining that every case is different.

Or as I like to say: the NCAA granted a waiver from itself.