How schools avoid NCAA penalties

[Masterofreality]

I'm not a fan or Gregg Doyel, but he wites a very good analysis of how schools avoid big penalties when they actually deserve them.

Ah, yes. The two asketball schools mentioned happen to be in the Big Greased. How surprising.



Doyel Article (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/15067608/reps-with-ncaa-ties-help-schools-soften-penalties)

[GoMuskies]

That Louisville team in '99 sucked. They shouldn't have bothered with the NCAA Tournament (they lost to Creighton in round 1).

[X-band '01]

So, USC got hammered in football because they didn't hire former NCAA compliance officials to help mitigate the damage like UConn and Louisville did and Ohio State is doing?

I thought it was because Reggie Bush and his family got excessive benefits while he was in college. Silly me.

And for those who think Ohio State should just impulsively fire Jim Tressel, I give you 2 words:

Jim O'Brien.

[xubrew]

So schools avoid penalties by hiring lawyers who are educated to defend them.

What a shocking revelation.

It isn't any different for people who break the law. If they can afford it, they hire defense attourneys who are educated and in many cases used to be prosecutors.

Not that it's a bad article. I do enjoy Doyell's cynicism, but other than being cynical, he often has no point or reports on anything that people don't already know.

[X-band '01]

Not everyone realizes that the people they hire to help them get through these penalties are people who used to work for the other side - there is a conflict of interest present.

UC and Bob Huggins almost got over on the Donald Little case when John Burlew was assigned as judge to that case. He had to recuse himself from that case for some reason. *cough*Pablo*cough*

[GoMuskies]

Not everyone realizes that the people they hire to help them get through these penalties are people who used to work for the other side - there is a conflict of interest present.


What's the conflict? All my friends in private law practice who used to work at the SEC are very interested in your response.

[smileyy]

The revolving door from government officials/representatives to lobbyists spins fast enough to cool DC by 10 degrees. Its pretty disgusting.

[xeus]

UC and Bob Huggins almost got over on the Donald Little case when John Burlew was assigned as judge to that case. He had to recuse himself from that case for some reason. *cough*Pablo*cough*

What's the story?

[MuskiePimp23]

The thing that bothers me is the NCAA is not a court of law, just a corrupt organization that makes shady decisions based on these conflicts of interest...Goes to show how corrupt the whole system is...These cases should be reviewed by a court or an independent 3rd party arbitration case instead of by the NCAA.