The situation involving Alabama football players possibly getting paid continues to get more interesting.

TMZ reports that the NCAA is looking into whether someone other than Alabama running back Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner, paid for him to attend a May 12 party in D.C.

The Alabama compliance department tells TMZ that no issues arose from the situation. “Mark asked if he could visit Joe Haden at his home

in Baltimore,” the Alabama compliance department reportedly told TMZ. “We checked with the NCAA and they approved this trip as long as

Mark provided receipts for his expenses.”

Regardless, the NCAA is asking questions, and Ingram could be the next Alabama player whose potential eligibility issues result in Nick Saban choking on his Little Debbie snacks in connection with the ongoing turf battle between those agents who are willing to pay college football players in response to the millions they generate — and those like Saban who prefer that the players get nothing beyond an education that they quite possibly don’t want.