COLUMN: Eligibility problems are coming to an end

The start of the year has been filled with sports headlines. Probably the biggest and most important storyline to follow has been the ongoing battle between the NCAA and its athletes. It feels like you could throw a dart at a map of the United States, and you could find some sort of case where an athlete is suing for eligibility. It should be simple: four years of eligibility and a redshirt if you qualify. But somewhere along the way, the plot was lost. The easy culprit is COVID-19, which offered one free year of eligibility to any athlete who played during the pandemic era. While yes, this added an extra year for all these athletes, it also opened a Pandora’s box to the point where Montana...