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Article: NCAA Charges Miami With Lack of Institutional Control
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Miami is a media darling because Miami draws eyes to TVs. It has nothing to do with whether the media loves us or hates us, it has everything to do with viewers and ratings. People love to watch the Canes because we have arguably the most recognizable college brand on the planet.
We're like the Yankees or the Lakers. You can't find a college football fan that doesn't have a steadfast view on us. You love to watch us win or you love to watch us lose, but either way, you're gonna watch us, and because of that, Miami is a media darling.
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Pretty sure somebody on the recruiting board (maybe Cash) said the going rate for a top JuCo DT this cycle was $60K
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“I’m not in the position of Roger Goodell, one who hands down penalties or makes those decisions,” he said.
Hey, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is exactly what Emmert did in the Penn State case. He personally sought the authority from the NCAA executive committee - same folks who obviously had to offer up a vote of confidence this week - to go outside the normal enforcement/infractions committee process in imposing harsh sanctions against Penn State. The NCAA didn't investigate (guess they had to save pennies since Nevin and his attorney blew the budget), but instead relied solely on the Freeh Report.
The problem with Emmert from Day One is he's tried to be this accessible, affable head of the NCAA, making himself readily available to friendly microphones and cameras, but yet he constantly puts his foot in his mouth
Hey, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is exactly what Emmert did in the Penn State case. He personally sought the authority from the NCAA executive committee - same folks who obviously had to offer up a vote of confidence this week - to go outside the normal enforcement/infractions committee process in imposing harsh sanctions against Penn State. The NCAA didn't investigate (guess they had to save pennies since Nevin and his attorney blew the budget), but instead relied solely on the Freeh Report.
The problem with Emmert from Day One is he's tried to be this accessible, affable head of the NCAA, making himself readily available to friendly microphones and cameras, but yet he constantly puts his foot in his mouth
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Help me out here...
Wasn't shapiro an official Booster? If so, then the amount of $170K to the school would be ok then right?
As a Booster, aren't they allowed to host events or be around players? Im talking "Official Booters", not agents, etc...
Now as a sports agent, I can see that being a conflict of interest, but I have still yet to hear of him actually signing one of the former Canes to a contract. For this reason, I'm thinking a good lawyer should be able to get us out of this situation???
My feeling, as far as this $170k being considered benefits (to and for players), I have a hard time beleiving the NCAA got former canes to admit to accepting cash from this guy via handshakes.
Wasn't shapiro an official Booster? If so, then the amount of $170K to the school would be ok then right?
As a Booster, aren't they allowed to host events or be around players? Im talking "Official Booters", not agents, etc...
Now as a sports agent, I can see that being a conflict of interest, but I have still yet to hear of him actually signing one of the former Canes to a contract. For this reason, I'm thinking a good lawyer should be able to get us out of this situation???
My feeling, as far as this $170k being considered benefits (to and for players), I have a hard time beleiving the NCAA got former canes to admit to accepting cash from this guy via handshakes.
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FENNO: Beyond reproach? Mark Emmert’s NCAA really beyond repair
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
You couldn’t make up the statement that slipped out from the NCAA’s executive committee last week.
The 235 words backed embattled president Mark Emmert.
Not conditionally. Not with concern or censure or even hesitation. But unanimously.
For all the high-minded talk of reform and accountability, the 19-member group of college presidents, athletics directors and conference commissioners went all-in with a failed president and, by association, a broken system.
“In short,” read the statement from Michigan State president Lou Anna K. Simon on behalf of the group, “we demand the highest level of integrity and accountability not only from our peers but also from the national office.”
That accountability the NCAA demands of everyone from young athletes to their coaches just doesn’t apply to Emmert. Instead, he’s lauded with praise in the statement for “historic” reforms conducted “without fanfare.” That pesky University of Miami scandal isn’t directly mentioned.
Oh, Miami. That one.
The scandal, the real one, revolves around the NCAA paying convicted con man Nevin Shapiro’s attorney to depose witnesses in the organization’s 22-month probe of extra benefits being directed to Miami athletes. Even Emmert’s No. 2, chief operating officer Jim Isch, signed off on the scheme that the NCAA’s legal department unambiguously opposed.
Think about that. The NCAA abused a federal bankruptcy proceeding to force witnesses to testify under oath to bolster its plodding investigation. The NCAA had no subpoena power so it bought some. While that didn’t violate a specific NCAA rule — it’s frightening enough that such procedures aren’t written down — the move flouted common sense, basic decency and the advice of the NCAA’s counsel.
The sordid details were unveiled last week in an investigation of the do-anything investigators commissioned by the NCAA. The report, of course, absolved Emmert of responsibility for the latest in a slew of debacles from his enforcement division that are symptomatic of an organization that’s lost its way.
An organization, incidentally, he runs.
But somehow Emmert is beyond blame, above the high standards he expects of those beneath him as the NCAA has lurched from embarrassment to embarrassment since he took charge in 2010 that’s called the organization’s long-term future into doubt.
The lead investigator in the Miami case, Ameen Najjar, lost his job. So did Julie Roe Lach, the vice president of enforcement.
Emmert essentially passed the decision on his future to the committee.
And the 19 members, the same ones who helped hand Emmert the authority for the unprecedented sanctions against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, unanimously patted Emmert on the back in three tone-deaf paragraphs. Under the guise of well-worn phrases about transparency and change, the group comes across as out of touch and desperately clinging to the status quo.
Think the support would be unanimous if one of their universities was under assault?
Think their 235 words make Miami president Donna Shalala feel any better?
Last week, she savaged the NCAA’s investigation in an unusual, if not unprecedented, verbal barrage from a university under threat of NCAA punishment.
Shalala accused the NCAA of orchestrating leaks and passing on obvious interviews that would help Miami’s case, not to mention the lawyer fiasco. Anger sizzles in each word. It’s not difficult to imagine this case eventually joining Penn State in the long list of those suing the NCAA.
“We trust that the Committee on Infractions will provide the fairness and integrity,” she wrote, “missing during the investigative process.”
Gentlemen, start your lawyers.
This is Emmert’s make-it-up-as-you-go-along NCAA. Process and procedures can be discarded when they aren’t convenient. Accountability is something for those unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of the NCAA’s wrath.
Penn State’s athletics department is excoriated (then hammered) by Emmert for “fundamental culture problems” while his own organization’s culture issues are blamed on the path to change being “bumpy” and “controversial.” Coaches are rebelling against new recruiting rules that will allow them to text, email or instant message recruits as much as they want. All the while, the cash rolls in with $871.6 million in revenue in 2011-12 alone.
Protecting student-athletes, the NCAA’s stated mission, certainly is lucrative.
None of this surprises Ramogi Huma. The former UCLA linebacker runs the National College Players Association that advocates for college athletics reform. This is what he’s preached for years.
“The notion that the NCAA institutes a fair system has gone the way of the belief that the world is flat,” Huma wrote in an email Monday, “and that will have consequences among legislative bodies, the courts, the public and even its member institutions. The NCAA may have ultimately sealed its fate of irrelevance or extinction.”
Huma thinks Emmert’s NCAA may have finally gone too far.
In the twisted, out-of-control world of college athletics, that earned Emmert the support of the NCAA’s executive committee.
Unanimously.
© Copyright 2013 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
You couldn’t make up the statement that slipped out from the NCAA’s executive committee last week.
The 235 words backed embattled president Mark Emmert.
Not conditionally. Not with concern or censure or even hesitation. But unanimously.
For all the high-minded talk of reform and accountability, the 19-member group of college presidents, athletics directors and conference commissioners went all-in with a failed president and, by association, a broken system.
“In short,” read the statement from Michigan State president Lou Anna K. Simon on behalf of the group, “we demand the highest level of integrity and accountability not only from our peers but also from the national office.”
That accountability the NCAA demands of everyone from young athletes to their coaches just doesn’t apply to Emmert. Instead, he’s lauded with praise in the statement for “historic” reforms conducted “without fanfare.” That pesky University of Miami scandal isn’t directly mentioned.
Oh, Miami. That one.
The scandal, the real one, revolves around the NCAA paying convicted con man Nevin Shapiro’s attorney to depose witnesses in the organization’s 22-month probe of extra benefits being directed to Miami athletes. Even Emmert’s No. 2, chief operating officer Jim Isch, signed off on the scheme that the NCAA’s legal department unambiguously opposed.
Think about that. The NCAA abused a federal bankruptcy proceeding to force witnesses to testify under oath to bolster its plodding investigation. The NCAA had no subpoena power so it bought some. While that didn’t violate a specific NCAA rule — it’s frightening enough that such procedures aren’t written down — the move flouted common sense, basic decency and the advice of the NCAA’s counsel.
The sordid details were unveiled last week in an investigation of the do-anything investigators commissioned by the NCAA. The report, of course, absolved Emmert of responsibility for the latest in a slew of debacles from his enforcement division that are symptomatic of an organization that’s lost its way.
An organization, incidentally, he runs.
But somehow Emmert is beyond blame, above the high standards he expects of those beneath him as the NCAA has lurched from embarrassment to embarrassment since he took charge in 2010 that’s called the organization’s long-term future into doubt.
The lead investigator in the Miami case, Ameen Najjar, lost his job. So did Julie Roe Lach, the vice president of enforcement.
Emmert essentially passed the decision on his future to the committee.
And the 19 members, the same ones who helped hand Emmert the authority for the unprecedented sanctions against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, unanimously patted Emmert on the back in three tone-deaf paragraphs. Under the guise of well-worn phrases about transparency and change, the group comes across as out of touch and desperately clinging to the status quo.
Think the support would be unanimous if one of their universities was under assault?
Think their 235 words make Miami president Donna Shalala feel any better?
Last week, she savaged the NCAA’s investigation in an unusual, if not unprecedented, verbal barrage from a university under threat of NCAA punishment.
Shalala accused the NCAA of orchestrating leaks and passing on obvious interviews that would help Miami’s case, not to mention the lawyer fiasco. Anger sizzles in each word. It’s not difficult to imagine this case eventually joining Penn State in the long list of those suing the NCAA.
“We trust that the Committee on Infractions will provide the fairness and integrity,” she wrote, “missing during the investigative process.”
Gentlemen, start your lawyers.
This is Emmert’s make-it-up-as-you-go-along NCAA. Process and procedures can be discarded when they aren’t convenient. Accountability is something for those unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of the NCAA’s wrath.
Penn State’s athletics department is excoriated (then hammered) by Emmert for “fundamental culture problems” while his own organization’s culture issues are blamed on the path to change being “bumpy” and “controversial.” Coaches are rebelling against new recruiting rules that will allow them to text, email or instant message recruits as much as they want. All the while, the cash rolls in with $871.6 million in revenue in 2011-12 alone.
Protecting student-athletes, the NCAA’s stated mission, certainly is lucrative.
None of this surprises Ramogi Huma. The former UCLA linebacker runs the National College Players Association that advocates for college athletics reform. This is what he’s preached for years.
“The notion that the NCAA institutes a fair system has gone the way of the belief that the world is flat,” Huma wrote in an email Monday, “and that will have consequences among legislative bodies, the courts, the public and even its member institutions. The NCAA may have ultimately sealed its fate of irrelevance or extinction.”
Huma thinks Emmert’s NCAA may have finally gone too far.
In the twisted, out-of-control world of college athletics, that earned Emmert the support of the NCAA’s executive committee.
Unanimously.
© Copyright 2013 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
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I'm glad people aren't just accepting the NCAA's bull**** anymore.
The NCAA is still not going quiety into the night though. Donna just needs to stay the course and finish these ********.
The NCAA is still not going quiety into the night though. Donna just needs to stay the course and finish these ********.
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The NCAA abused a federal bankruptcy proceeding to force witnesses to testify under oath to bolster its plodding investigation. The NCAA had no subpoena power so it bought some. While that didn’t violate a specific NCAA rule — it’s frightening enough that such procedures aren’t written down — the move flouted common sense, basic decency and the advice of the NCAA’s counsel.
This is an egregious violation of due process. EVERYONE has a right to due process; it is fundamental to a democratic society.
I hope Hurricane Shalala sues the living **** out of these tyrannical despots.
This is an egregious violation of due process. EVERYONE has a right to due process; it is fundamental to a democratic society.
I hope Hurricane Shalala sues the living **** out of these tyrannical despots.
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One thing I don't get is why doesn't the judge from the bankrupcy hearing do something? If I was the judge of that case, I would be ****ed and hold the NCAA and Perez accountable for waisting my time and the taxpayer's time and money.
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You would think that would be the case..... But who knows......
Maybe he was on the NCAA payroll too.......
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This country wasn't founded, and technically isn't, a democracy. But point taken nonetheless.
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The Department of Justice may have jurisdiction.
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Hey Punch...
Stop cutting and pasting articles from other sources.
Tex
why? so that we can strictly read your incredibly insightful work?
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Hey Punch...
Stop cutting and pasting articles from other sources.
Tex
Who the **** are you? Shut up.
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