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NCAA admits to its own "severe issue of misconduct"

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The NCAA named Jonathan Duncan as interim vice president of enforcement on Monday in the wake of admitted "missteps" and "insufficient oversight" in its investigation of Miami's athletics department.

Duncan will replace Julie Roe Lach, whose firing was reported earlier by Yahoo! Sports.

Despite an earlier report that a source told ESPN's Brett McMurphy that managing director of enforcement Tom Hosty was also fired, NCAA president Mark Emmert told USA Today that Hosty will remain with the organization.

The NCAA on Monday released the results of an external probe of how it investigated the Hurricanes, nearly a month after revealing what it called "a very severe issue of improper conduct." That issue was that the attorney for former booster and convicted Ponzi scheme architect Nevin Shapiro was used to improperly obtain information.

However, the NCAA said the case against Miami will proceed "with information properly obtained by the enforcement staff."

The NCAA admitted missteps were made. Miami had no immediate comment.

And now that this step is complete, the path is clear -- again -- for Miami to finally receive its notice of allegations from the nearly 2-year-old investigation into what rules were broken within athletics. Shapiro said he provided dozens of athletes, coaches and recruits with impermissible benefits for several years, starting in 2002. Shapiro is now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for his Ponzi scheme, which bilked investors of about $930 million.

The report the NCAA released Monday said Shapiro's attorney, Maria Elena Perez, billed the NCAA for $57,115 worth of work performed from October 2011 through July 2012. The NCAA said it paid about $18,000.

One of the people Perez deposed, former Miami equipment room staffer Sean Allen, said he was not contacted during the NCAA's external probe. Allen provided some testimony that could have damaged Miami, but since the NCAA does not have subpoena power, what he said in that deposition to Perez should never have been part of the case against the Hurricanes.

A transcript of Allen's deposition shows that much of his deposition involved Perez asking questions about Miami athletics, matters which would not have seemed directly involved to Shapiro's bankruptcy case.

The NCAA said Perez offered to use depositions and subpoena power to assist with the case against Miami. The NCAA also said Perez was willing to ask any questions they wanted, but that the enforcement staff was urged by the governing body's legal team not to go forward with the plan to collaborate with Perez.

"We found very clearly the enforcement staff disregarded ... the advice they got from the legal staff," said Kenneth L. Wainstein, the attorney who led the probe that Emmert ordered last month.
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The NCAA is a joke. What they did to Penn State is absolutely terrifying if you are a fan of any college team. They imposed their own, invented authority and applied it to a State institution to totally devastate it financially. The good thing - Penn State is big enough to survive. The bad thing - it sets a horrible precedent.

But, just because it happened to Miami doesn't mean that they didn't have problems in their athletic department.
 
Jerry Punch said:
The NCAA is a joke. What they did to Penn State is absolutely terrifying if you are a fan of any college team. They imposed their own, invented authority and applied it to a State institution to totally devastate it financially. The good thing - Penn State is big enough to survive. The bad thing - it sets a horrible precedent.

But, just because it happened to Miami doesn't mean that they didn't have problems in their athletic department.
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No way. If they death penaltied SMU for doing something far less egregious than what went down at PSU, the death penalty should have been the minimum for Penn State. :twocents:
 
Check out Jay Bilas on twitter. Dude hates the NCAA w/ a passion. Was never a Bilas fan until I started following him on twitter, dude is good.
 
So if the NCAA finds that a program has made "miss steps" it levies punishment, fines etc. Seems Miami should levy some punishment of its own.
 
"And the University of Miami has cooperated extensively with the NCAA Rules Committee to the extend that they (Miami) has self-imposed a two year post season ban.

With the amount of evidence no longer viable in the NCAA's investigation of Miami it wouldn't shock me any to see that Miami self inflicted their own punishment over something no worse than an athlete caught jaywalking across campus in order to get to class.

All these self-imposed limitations that universities do and have done is but a submission to a blackmail by the NCAA; in order to avoid more severe punishments merely alluded to in a clandestine manner by an organization that is groping for power and nothing but power, whether right or wrong.

The University of Montana, nor any other university for that matter, should never submit to such a provocation; never apply self-imposed sanctions in order to avoid the possibility of heavier penalties merely alluded to and used by the NCAA to blackmail with.
 
Everyone is right about Bilas. He called out the NCAA for its lack of accountability. That itself is disturbing, but to me, nothing compares to its ability to assume jurisdiction over matters that clearly is inappropriate. The NCAA, in essence, levied an extreme tax on the people of Pennsylvania by requiring a public institution to pay severe penalties. Penn State needed to be held accountable - but not the entire University and athletic department. Now, current and future students will pay the price for failures from the few without any justification at all.

Emmert all the while sits atop his perch and is not accountable to anybody for the missteps of the organization he leads. The irony and hypocrisy here is staggering and frightening if you are a fan of any NCAA institution.
 
Jerry Punch said:
Everyone is right about Bilas. He called out the NCAA for its lack of accountability. That itself is disturbing, but to me, nothing compares to its ability to assume jurisdiction over matters that clearly is inappropriate. The NCAA, in essence, levied an extreme tax on the people of Pennsylvania by requiring a public institution to pay severe penalties. Penn State needed to be held accountable - but not the entire University and athletic department. Now, current and future students will pay the price for failures from the few without any justification at all.

Emmert all the while sits atop his perch and is not accountable to anybody for the missteps of the organization he leads. The irony and hypocrisy here is staggering and frightening if you are a fan of any NCAA institution.
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Gotcha. I understand what you're getting at now Jerry Punch. If I remember correctly, Emmert was the president(?) (AD?) of the University of Washington when that program got ran into the ground. Not surprising (yet still disturbing) that it's continued while he's been "overseeing" the NCAA -- of course, it was kind of a joke before he got there, still, it's not like he's made things better.
 
No. He made things way worse. It is a money making institution - if that is your number one goal, things like this are going to happen. The NCAA does hardly anything to protect the institutions it "governs" and merely investigates them to reaffirm that it exists. Corporate sponsors like Tostitos, State Farm, Discover, etc, all provide more to Universities than the NCAA does.

Emmert may have "cleaned up" UW, but even if he did, he is totally insulated from the public and is accountable to no one. That is a scary idea. He can place the blame on anyone he wants. Bilas stated that Emmert has placed all of the blame on a woman who doesn't deserve it. What recourse does anyone have against him?

I don't care about fan allegiances with this issue. If the NCAA sets a precedent that it can shaft over Penn State or Miami without any jurisdictional authority to do so, it can happen to your college too. That scares the shit out of me. But what can anyone do about it?
 
Jerry Punch said:
... But what can anyone do about it?
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We can start witch hunts and lynch mobs! :twisted:

Seriously though, I agree with your points. About the only thing that Emmert did "right" at UW was make the Football teams GPA/graduation rate get better....and that is probably more on the coaches than him. :twocents:
 
MissoulaMarinerFan said:
Jerry Punch said:
... But what can anyone do about it?
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We can start witch hunts and lynch mobs! :twisted:

Seriously though, I agree with your points. About the only thing that Emmert did "right" at UW was make the Football teams GPA/graduation rate get better....and that is probably more on the coaches than him. :twocents:
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The witch hunt is in full force in Missoula. They will look even worse when they find nothing. Or, in the alternative, find something they themselves fabricated by overstepping their boundaries. I am cheering for UM for the first time in my life against the ultimate evil, the NCAA.
 
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