NCAA fires chief enforcement officer

Jumbo shrimp.  Full vacuum.  NCAA enforcement.

I love bashing the NCAA's bumbling as much as the next guy, and this was obviously a very bad idea.  However, without condoning this particular action, I can see how if the enforcement office had people who actually cared, they would go to non-traditional sources of information.  From media accounts I have read, Michigan opening its doors and welcoming in the NCAA to investigate is the exception and not the rule.  On the contrary, these schemes are sufficiently sophisticated that SI can send one of its best reporters to Columbus to stir the pot and only comes out with a sorta story about tattoos and even Yahoo! reporters recently said that they have reports of many many stories they cannot run because they cannot corroborate.  If even reporters cannot run much with the option of running with anonymous sources, the NCAA compliance office certainly has an uphill battle to keep its legitimacy and nail all but the dumbest or most arrogant offenders.

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is that the fox is guarding its own henhouse, and is loath to kill the--aherm--hen that's laying the golden huevos. 

Would be a better investigator than the NCAA.

Soon to be replaced by Inspector Clouseau.

Why didn't they think of this pre tat gate?



One wonders UFR how messed up that was...

I'm pretty sure the corollary is never attribute to stupidity, that which can adequately be explained by bribery.

Fine and Howard, attorneys of law.

"The findings released Monday state that the enforcement department: went against NCAA legal advice in paying Perez for depositions she shared with the association; violated internal NCAA policy; failed to consider the NCAA membership's understanding of the limitation of its enforcement powers; and failed to sufficiently oversee Perez's actions on the association's behalf."

It might just be me, but the fact that the department went against the advice of their own lawyers and paid Perez is something that I find particularly intriguing. They seemed to be so invested in making a slam dunk with the Miami investigation that the rules and limitations of their own bylaws were of no importance, and that's the real pity - how can any institution take seriously the charges leveled by an association that can't reliably enforce its own rules on itself? 

It appears even the Miami Athletic Department retains the ethical high ground over the NCAA: http://www.miami.edu/index.php/ncaa_investigation/statements_and_releases/#18 .  Quite comical for the Miami AD to admonish another entity for not following the rules, but it shows just what a farce the NCAA was / is / always will be.

~Herm

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The Miami thing is a smokescreen. Emmert is pissed OSU wasn't awarded extra scholarships following the Tatgate "investigation."

didn't give a good recommendation for a pediatrition/ACL injury.

And every Penn State fan in the country just declared victory. Not sure how, but this TOTALLY vindicates JoePa.

Water is wet. Sky is blue. NCAA is not able to dunk a case without screwing it up. All these things are true and inevitable

that which is adequately explained by enlightened self-interest.

NCAA enforcement is designed to fail. Effective enforcement would damage the universities that make up the institution, lax penalties are an embarrassment. It's best if little is discovered in the first place.