NCAA suspends Tennessee linebacker for $427 plane ticket, as college sports hands out millions in NIL

The NCAA has lost another battle in the court of public opinion, and this time it involves a college football player at Tennessee. In a world in which college athletes are being paid millions of dollars to play, it looks as though the NCAA is still harping on the small things like we are still living in the past. Should this come as a surprise? Probably not, given the organization is still trying to hold onto any power they have left within this current ecosystem of college athletics. Tennessee