Director of enforcement leaves NCAA for Auburn
NCAA director of enforcement Dave Didion finished his last day on the job in Indianapolis on Friday, with just more than a week before he leaves to return to Auburn.
The veteran enforcement officer left his position to take one as the associate director of athletics for compliance, effective April 22. He returns to a campus he left more than a decade ago after 14 years at the NCAA.
I feel like we are all being punked, really hard.
Has anyone seen Ashton Kutcher recently? /topicalin2003
with this scenario.
April 13th, 2013 at 10:18 AM ^
Must.... fight...urge...
Yeesh. This sounds as bad as the revolving door of the Military Industrial Complex.
April 13th, 2013 at 10:29 AM ^
Wall Street and the S.E.C.
April 13th, 2013 at 11:38 AM ^
Monsanto and the EPA or Dept of Agriculture.
African-American celebrities and Kim Kardashian's vagina.
This is a fun game.
African-American celebrities and Kim Kardashian's vagina.
This is a fun game.
Political rules waived due to lack of other metephors
I thoguht my latter one was quite adept.
April 13th, 2013 at 11:37 AM ^
I was just thinking, Congress and Lobbyists or the NCAA and Compliance Officers? Which is the bigger incestuous cesspool?
April 13th, 2013 at 11:18 AM ^
Well played. It's sad, but true.
will conclude that the trees at Toomer's corner are dead and need to be cut down. Alabama will get three years of probation for their poisoning and will lose three agricultural scholarships...
That's right. Auburn created its own sleeper cell inside the NCAA. Clever...
Is it just me or does it not seem right that everyone who works for the NCAA at some point seems to have either worked for one of the major institutions they are now governing and will eventually go work for them? That seems like a conflict of interest. It's like we send a spy to the Soviet Union who then defects and comes back to spy on the US. Can you truely trust these people to be unbiased regarding investigations of the very institutions that used to put food on their table?
April 13th, 2013 at 11:22 AM ^
I totally agree...it's a huge conflict of interest. No wonder Auburn hasn't been busted sooner...they essentially sent a mole in to the NCAA to help make potential issues go away.
Auburn's most famous alum, Charles Barkley, has said numerous times about how Auburn "pays well" and how "it's not what you think is going on, but it's what you can prove"
Makes me wonder how many other schools have sent people to work for the NCAA...
April 13th, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
Isn't it more like sending a local state representative to congress who then comes back to work for his own state afterwards? The NCAA is not a foreign governing body, it's a self-governing organization of the schools themselves. It's an association of member universities, so isn't it going to be made up of people from those institutions?
Dude, theres a narrative going on here and you are fing it up
April 14th, 2013 at 12:37 AM ^
""It's personal," Didion said of his decision to leave the NCAA, "but I just wanted to go back to campus, and Auburn is one of the few places that I could go to."
I have to wonder if the resignation letter began, "Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name....".
Cheers.
WWWWWWWWWWWWWhat?! No wonder these guys aren't enforcing the rules! This is crazy! Perhaps the biggest offender (as far as we know-- ask Cam Newton's father) and the director of enforcement is going there . . . this is some stinky #%@&!
How much did Auburn pay his dad?
How much did Auburn pay his dad?
April 13th, 2013 at 10:06 AM ^
WTF? This is like a district attorney going into private practice and working for the mob. Losing more and more faith in the NCAA everyday.
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to write for The Onion these days.
April 13th, 2013 at 10:18 AM ^
Breaking News: This just in Auburn still sucks.
April 13th, 2013 at 10:47 AM ^
The more I read about situations like this, and the more I watch games like the basketball final, the more I equate NCAA sports to professional wrestling and the less interest I have in watching anything except Michigan.
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April 13th, 2013 at 11:00 AM ^
This makes sense. Why would you want to leave a job where you've probably done nothing for 14 years to go to a place that actually might expect you to work?
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because he felt the need to have a good supply of confetti to toss during Auburn's Spring Game.
/s
April 13th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
This might have been part of the plan, go work at the NCAA and provide us cover, then we'll reward you for a job well done.
You have to admit, the guy did a great job protecting Auburn during their NCAA championship year...he deserves every penny. I just wonder why he's leaving now, with Auburn back in the crosshairs. Maybe they infiltrated someone else and this is just a passing of the baton.
April 13th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
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Ohio, Miami, and Oregon might disagree with you!
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This is hilarious.
April 13th, 2013 at 12:27 PM ^
But what's he going to do there?
I thought Auburn's compliance was all fi-NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
April 13th, 2013 at 12:39 PM ^
Take a long lunch
Knock off a little early for a job well done
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