OT: NCAA Ineptitude Reaches a New Level
NCAA President Mark Emmert continues to amaze. Here he is saying that Ayton would not be instructed to sit because there was no investigation or process underway, just a yahoo report.
President Emmert made the choice to exclude himself from the decision to hold either Coach Miller or Ayton accountable for the allegations. During an interview with CBS, Emmert said, “First and foremost, that a decision the school has to make. We don’t reach in and tell a school that a player can or can’t play tonight, unless there is an open investigation going on that’s already been through a whole process. There’s been no process here. We’ve got a report in the media. I’ll let everyone make their own determination on the credibility of that.”
However, Arizona lawyer Paul Kelly in stating why Ayton was elligible to play said the following:
“Over the past several months, Mr. Ayton has voluntarily submitted to several interviews, by federal prosecutors and the FBI, by University and PAC-12 compliance officials, by representatives of the NCAA, and by Steptoe & Johnson, the independent law firm engaged by the University to review these matters,” the statement said.
Interesting contradiction here. It could all be about that word "process", but I wonder why Emmert would lead everyone to believe that no investigation had taken place and that this was just a report? It's definitely looking like the NCAA has no interest in punishing dirty schools and instead is considering rule changes as a fix.
February 26th, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 6:13 PM ^
Pay these players and/or allow them to capitalize on their likeness and/or allow high schoolers to go pro so we can be done with this nonsense.
February 26th, 2018 at 8:27 PM ^
I don't want to see college ball players get paid. That's a rabbit hole I just don't think it makes sense for universities to go down. But there is no reason not to let athletes who are good enough go straight to the pros out of high school. One and done is ruining college Bball.
February 26th, 2018 at 10:45 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 6:56 PM ^
Think again. Bridges reinstated by NCAA after paying $40. In one day. "Dude" proces, as posters above have noted. Great strategy by Sparty -- cop to the offense that if fixable, deny deny, deny on the rest.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-universi…
February 26th, 2018 at 7:23 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 7:40 PM ^
It would take a lot of big players banding together to get that to happen though. Ironically, the BIG 10 is probably in the best position to do something about it, but they're just as incompentent as the NCAA.
I would prefer a system where we get rid of this "playing school" nonsense and turn college football and basketball into the minor leagues.
February 26th, 2018 at 7:43 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 7:47 PM ^
Public officals are elected, private corps it is either the owner or the BOD selects. But, an orginization like the NCAA, who decides who is in charge? This guy has been a running joke as long as I can remember but how would he even get replaced?
February 26th, 2018 at 7:56 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 10:28 PM ^
if anything JB would hugely benefit from that.
February 26th, 2018 at 9:41 PM ^
February 26th, 2018 at 11:58 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 8:27 AM ^
Nothing about this organization makes sense.
February 27th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
In punishing stray offenders, because it lets them keep the artifiace that their system is working and amateurism is viable. This investigation doesn't allow them to do it, because it pulls back the curtain to reveal the entirety of amateurism is a ludicrous sham invented to get away with paying the talent a fraction of their worth.
February 27th, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
there were no more levels. Was this new DLC in a recent update?