NCAA allowing schools to decide how much food is enough food

The NCAA is the governing body of college sports. Apparently, though, they are not the governing body of calorie intake.

In April the NCAA announced legislation that would give programs more freedom as to how and how much they feed their student-athletes. Because, really, nothing says altruism more than allowing a person to feed themselves.

However, a new debate emerged from the NCAA’s more lenient stance of yum-yums for the tum-tum. How much food is the correct amount of food for an active, book learning, student-athlete? The answer is, I guess, whatever your school wants. Well, according to a new NCAA statement at least.

"Consistent with the deregulatory nature of this rule change and recognizing the uniqueness of institutional meal plans and polices, institutions and conferences have the discretion to provide student-athletes other meals or snacks as they deem appropriate and consistent with institutional policies and financial aid regulations. As adopted, the legislation does not permit institutions to avoid applying the financial aid legislation. For example, meals and snacks provided as benefits incidental to participation in intercollegiate athletics are not intended to replace meals that would normally be provided through a dining plan or an off-campus board stipend."

I smell some sort of fair and competitive balance injustice going on here. What if the Club State Pool Cleaners offer their kids brand name pasta sauce while the University of Broken Dreams can only afford a generic brand? That is a recruiting advantage if I ever saw one.