The NCAA is a corrupt sham organization that is nothing but an insult to college sports and its fans. We all know this. The supposed governing body of collegiate athletics essentially does nothing and when it does take action, that action is usually just handing out arbitrary and idiotic punishments for breaking recruiting rules.

In its latest showing of complete stupidity, this week the NCAA refused to make rules changes that would penalize teams that appear to be faking injuries in an attempt to slow down games. They tried to pacify critics by proposing a postgame "appeals" process but we all know that will amount to nothing.

Obviously, Tennessee fans such as ourselves have seen plenty of fake injuries in the past year and know that rules changes are badly needed.

Against a number of teams during the 2021 Vol football season, opposing defenses had players fall to the ground and act injured for no reason other than to give themselves time for rest against Josh Heupel's incredibly fast offense. Beyond the fact that faking injuries is a pathetic way to admit that your defense can’t handle what the opposing offense is doing, these stoppages often dragged out game times and made some games borderline unwatchable.

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And faking injuries isn’t some brand new phenomenon in college football. Teams have been using this tactic since the advent of quick tempo offenses years ago. This change has been needed for a long time but never more than now.

But the NCAA has decided to just plug its ears and act like nothing is happening. Like an infant, they’re covering their eyes and hoping that no one will see them not doing even the bare minimum to make college football better.

And it’s not like they have a hard time changing rules anyway. When Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett did an awesome fake slide in the ACC championship game, it took the NCAA all of five minutes to make a rule outlawing fake slides. But when a rule is needed that would actually make the sport markedly better, the NCAA is nowhere to be found.

But let’s be honest, this is nothing new and is far from surprising. Why would we expect anything better from an organization that is defined to its core by total incompetence? The only bit of positivity I can provide for this situation is that hopefully with the way things are going in college sports at the moment, the days of the NCAA may be numbered.