Mike Williams' NCAA career is over. They turned him down for reinstatement. A lot of pundits are slamming the NCAA and want Williams to be reinstated, but I think Stewart Mandel nailed it earlier this month.

Williams has no desire to be a student-athlete. Period. Don't believe me? Check out his comments to the local beat writers Saturday about his geography and cinema classes. "It's trying," Williams said. "People don't understand the situation. How you want to get up and take a flight back home. But I owe it to these guys to stick around."

How noble. He doesn't really want to, but for the good of the team, Mike is willing to sit through a couple of classes this summer. Never mind that every one of his teammates carries that cumbersome burden of having to actually attend college, as do the other 12,000 or so individuals fortunate enough to play Division I-A football. [...]

How's this for entitlement? Among the estimated $100,000 in expenses Mike Williams had to repay former agent Mike Azzarelli in order to be considered for reinstatement was the use of a private plane for a trip to the Bahamas. And that was after he'd been disqualified from the draft. He also got to receive world-class training at Competitive Edge Sports in Duluth, Ga. (a favorite among NFL prospects), get his face plastered on football cards and fulfill every kid's dream by landing an endorsement deal with Nike.

Sorry, Mike. Whether or not you paid back the money, whether or not you got screwed by the NFL, you don't get to live the life of a pro for four months then, when things don't work out for you, come crawling back to college. The classrooms at USC weren't designed as a place for future first-rounders to kill time.