Temple Football Dreams Crushed

Seven football players from Temple University were declared academically ineligible for this fall's season. Doesn't sound like a big deal, right? You hear about it all the time, kids not making high enough grades. In the situation at Temple University, the athletes were in the right and the administration was in the wrong. Starting this year, stricter guidelines were implemented from the NCAA. Nothing is wrong with making new guidelines, the NCAA is just trying to make the student athletes maintain higher GPA's. The only problem is in the advising department, where no one informed the players that the rules had changed. That is until four days before the season home opener. For some student athletes this news would have just meant that they would take a year off and work harder to be eligible for next season. Unfortunately that isn't the case here, all of the players are in their final year of eligibility. They were told what classes and grades they needed to maintain so they did. Now they are being told they can't play. What kind of message is this supposed to be to the upcoming student athletes at Temple?