Great birthday card — Front:  This is Edith ( beautiful Pin-Up ) and this is your cake ( Giant slice with a lighted candle ). 

Inside :  “You can have your cake, or you can have Edith–but you can’t have your cake and Edith too!”

As the man said–It is time to make some “chawses” ( Choices )

The just released survey by the Elon Poll requested solutions to college athletics problems.  Between the Portal and Likeness changes,  a Rubicon moment,     Teaming with the NCAA, they listed ten pages of questions and suggestions to summarize  how to reign in this “conundrum”.

Some years back I played in a local poker game with John McQuire, brother to Al,   and poster for Octogeneran Curmudgeons.  Occasionally he would blurt out angry admonitions to shut up and play.  Upon enduring  one cliched dissection of the past hand,  and it’s theories and what-ifs,  John concluded “… NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING! “

Apt description of the above Elon/NCAA poll.  

What seems apparent is that a square peg- round hole problem is at the core. 

Education and greed don’t jibe.  The POWER conferences have made their choice.  The rest may too “ante up “.   Hopefully some avenue to EDUCATION as a choice will emerge.  Some are already available.

“Bad luck women stick like glue.  You can have one or the other, but never the two.”  B. Dylan