Schools with more money to print big awesome media guides have a perceived recruiting advantage over schools who have to do it on the cheap. Since PDFs are essentially free, the playing field is supposedly equal so that’s still okay. Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s bullshit, but it’s their excuse. One would think that “no giving media guides to recruits” would serve the same purpose without screwing over fans and collectors, but nobody ever accused the NCAA of making any sense.

To protect us from being eye raped by stuff like the UF guide — and then to protect management from having their employees’ work hours “wasted” while they Photoshop things like aforementioned guide.