Tyler Kreig and NCAA rule 2005-54

So if you're a college football player, and you've done the whole college thing and graduated in four years, and rather than stick around at the same school for another year for your graduate degree, you want to apply to go someplace else and still play football, guess what? You can.

The NCAA says so, and Cal has a new OL, Tyler Kreig, who's taking advantage of this rule. However, a couple of idiot sportswriters think this is a bad idea.

It's only a bad idea if you don't think education is the primary goal of student athletes. See, you have to have already graduated with a Bachelor's degree to take advantage of this rule. And 40% of college football players (including most of the first round of the NFL draft this year) never get that far.

Maybe Tyler just wants to be on a winning football team. Maybe Tyler really wants to be a teacher: he's taking graduate classes in education. Or maybe Tyler, with his Bachelor's from Duke and a future Master's from Cal, is just a smart guy. Anyone else in the world would love to have that kind of education on his resume.