Alabama got into trouble with the NCAA this week. Apparently that some of the players were give free textbooks in violation of the organization’s rules. It’s not clear how this happened, except that the procedures were not properly monitored. But does this make sense? If the rules were not properly followed, you’d think that there would be something clear about that. How do most college students get textbooks? They buy them. Exactly what were they supposed to be monitoring and what part of it allowed “free textbooks for certain people” to become a sin of omission? I don’t really get it.