Ok, a few things to note. First, with respect to the Herald's rep in Indy, Manny is clueless and out of his element when it comes to reporting on this. This is big-boy stuff. Dennis Dodd has been covering the NCAA since before Manny was even born, knows the system and the key players. Now, more importantly, the fact that they dealt with both basketball and football issues, the individual coaches' issues - plus, presumably the unethical behavior by the NCAA enforcement staff - in 16 hours or a day-and-a-half tells me this wasn't as contentious as some (Mr. Manny) would have us believe. That's a sign there may have been agreement on a fair number of issues, as well as the Committee on Infractions being fairly comfortable with the details and not requiring much back-and-forth or clarification from the sides. On two other points, and our ACC commish deserves kudos for standing up for Miami, and that won't go unnoticed by the COI; and Miami had the infractions case master on its side in Mike Glazier. Having said all this, I expect the football program to get off with largely time served, plus perhaps a loss of a few scholarships over likely a 3-year probationary peroid. The outcome for basketball is less certain because the accuracy of details regarding allegations is less clear, but they didn't take pre-emptive measures like football and so maybe they get hit harder now. We shall see. But no matter, better days are ahead.
