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This in my alumni/faculty mailbox

Statement from President Donna E. Shalala

Earlier today the University of Miami received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA concerning its investigation of the University’s athletics program. The following statement from President Donna E. Shalala is in response to that Notice.

The University of Miami deeply regrets and takes full responsibility for those NCAA violations that are based on fact and are corroborated by multiple individuals and/or documentation. We have already self-imposed a bowl ban for an unprecedented two-year period, forfeited the opportunity to participate in an ACC championship game, and withheld student-athletes from competition.

Over the two and a half years since the University of Miami first contacted the NCAA enforcement staff about allegations of rules violations, the NCAA interviewed dozens of witnesses, including current and former Miami employees and student-athletes, and received thousands of requested documents and emails from the University. Yet despite our efforts to aid the investigation, the NCAA acknowledged on February 18, 2013 that it violated its own policies and procedures in an attempt to validate the allegations made by a convicted felon. Many of the allegations included in the Notice of Allegations remain unsubstantiated.

Now that the Notice of Allegations has been issued, let me provide some context to the investigation itself:

Many of the charges brought forth are based on the word of a man who made a fortune by lying. The NCAA enforcement staff acknowledged to the University that if Nevin Shapiro, a convicted con man, said something more than once, it considered the allegation “corroborated”—an argument which is both ludicrous and counter to legal practice.
Most of the sensationalized media accounts of Shapiro’s claims are found nowhere in the Notice of Allegations. Despite their efforts over two and a half years, the NCAA enforcement staff could not find evidence of prostitution, expensive cars for players, expensive dinners paid for by boosters, player bounty payments, rampant alcohol and drug use, or the alleged hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts given to student-athletes, as reported in the media. The fabricated story played well—the facts did not.
The NCAA enforcement staff failed, even after repeated requests, to interview many essential witnesses of great integrity who could have provided first-hand testimony, including, unbelievably, Paul Dee, who has since passed away, but who served as Miami Athletic Director during many of the years that violations were alleged to have occurred. How could a supposedly thorough and fair investigation not even include the Director of Athletics?
Finally, we believe the NCAA was responsible for damaging leaks of unsubstantiated allegations over the course of the investigation.
Let me be clear again: for any rule violation—substantiated and proven with facts—that the University, its employees, or student-athletes committed, we have been and should be held accountable. We have worked hard to improve our compliance oversight, and we have already self-imposed harsh sanctions.

We deeply regret any violations, but we have suffered enough.

The University and counsel will work diligently to prepare our official response to the Notice of Allegations and submit it to the Committee on Infractions within the required 90-day time period.

We trust that the Committee on Infractions will provide the fairness and integrity missing during the investigative process.
 
The thing that scares me the most is, the NCAA has no one to answer to. If the COI wants to **** us, they can.
 
Emmert would be smart to steer clear of Donna. If she gets within 50 feet if him I'm betting she takes out her earrings, kicks off her shoes, charges that homo and straight mollywhops his ***.
 
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miamimike said:
CaneCounty said:
Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds
Somebody, quick, hand Donna Shalala a microphone, so she can drop it. That's the only way Canes fans will be happier tonight.
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i dont get it???
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Canemang said:
The thing that scares me the most is, the NCAA has no one to answer to. If the COI wants to **** us, they can.
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They answer to the world and the rest of college football. And, the way they answer is that, if they **** us, no one will ever cooperate with an NCAA investigation again. There'd be no reason or incentive to do anything but stall, stonewall or outright lie.
 
SmokeyRone said:
tOLD YOU THE ncaa WAS GONNA COME GUNS ABLAZIN'
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Lol, where are the blazing guns. They are ****ed. They don't have much of a case and what they do have will be time served. They don't want to **** with Donna on this or they will be sitting in front of a senate subcommittee.
 
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Despite their efforts over two and a half years, the NCAA enforcement staff could not find evidence of prostitution, expensive cars for players, expensive dinners paid for by boosters, player bounty payments, rampant alcohol and drug use, or the alleged hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts given to student-athletes, as reported in the media. The fabricated story played well—the facts did not.

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LuCane said:
Canemang said:
The thing that scares me the most is, the NCAA has no one to answer to. If the COI wants to **** us, they can.
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They answer to the world and the rest of college football. And, the way they answer is that, if they **** us, no one will ever cooperate with an NCAA investigation again. There'd be no reason or incentive to do anything but stall, stonewall or outright lie.
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But they fugged up the Shabazz Muhammad invest., the Cam Newton invest., went outside NCAA bylaws on Ped St., and now this one...all under Emmert's watch.
 
LuCane said:
Canemang said:
The thing that scares me the most is, the NCAA has no one to answer to. If the COI wants to **** us, they can.
Click to expand...

They answer to the world and the rest of college football. And, the way they answer is that, if they **** us, no one will ever cooperate with an NCAA investigation again. There'd be no reason or incentive to do anything but stall, stonewall or outright lie.
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They keep ******* with Donna, they'll answer to a federal judge.
 
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UMprodigy said:
Despite their efforts over two and a half years, the NCAA enforcement staff could not find evidence of prostitution, expensive cars for players, expensive dinners paid for by boosters, player bounty payments, rampant alcohol and drug use, or the alleged hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts given to student-athletes, as reported in the media. The fabricated story played well—the facts did not.

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Isn't that the whole Yahoo article?

****, WTF did they find?
 
In the field of politics and public relations, the NCAA is no match for Shalala. There, she will school the NCAA.
 
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DonDonna has an industrial sized fan pointed at Emmert and has placed a circus elephant eating taco bell behind it.
 
LuCane said:
Canemang said:
The thing that scares me the most is, the NCAA has no one to answer to. If the COI wants to **** us, they can.
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They answer to the world and the rest of college football. And, the way they answer is that, if they **** us, no one will ever cooperate with an NCAA investigation again. There'd be no reason or incentive to do anything but stall, stonewall or outright lie.
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Este. If the NCAA shafts UM they may as well not even bother trying to investigate anyone else. They won't even be let on campus.
 
I'm surprised that no one in the media has yet focused on the whitewashed investigation of itself commissioned by the NCAA. The mere fact that the NCAA goes out and hires counsel to conduct the investigation is such an obvious public relations ploy that it reeks. It is tantamount to asking Maria Elena Perez to investigate Nevin Shapiro--or the NCAA allowing UM to investigate itself after Shapiro made his allegations. No one would accept that, but people accept the "for show" investigation that the NCAA bought and paraded out to the public?

The media should be writing more about that and raising questions. So far, it pretty much has accepted the report, even if rejecting the conduct it reports. They should be asking about what information the report withholds.
 
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