More proof the NCAA is a complete joke

[Cynical]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--ncaa-firing-vp-of-enforcement-171556026.html

 

Vice president of enforcement Julie Roe Lach was fired in the wake of an external report detailing an abuse of power in the NCAA's investigation into the Hurricanes' football and men's basketball programs.

 

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.
  

(emphasis and formatting mine)

 

I'm shocked, I tell ya, just shocked the NCAA would choose to ignore it's own policies in an investigation.

 

Further down in the article is this tidbit:

Emmert said he does not believe the NCAA's enforcement process is broken.

 

Pfft. Of course not. Hey Emmert. It's not broken, it's just plain .

[JPPT1974]

NCAA do not have their own police thing it seems. As they are a joke and beyond!

[UConn James]

I wonder if Emmert will get suspended for "lack of institutional control"....

[Cynical]

More details regarding the UM investigation:

 

http://www.miaminewt...-you-know/full/

 

Throughout his career, (Rich) Johanningmeier has been accused in court filings and testimony of unethical behavior, including:

• Railroading two University of Alabama football coaches based on shoddy information from secret witnesses.

• Manipulating witness testimony to concoct an allegation against former Mississippi head football coach Jackie Sherrill.

• Playing more of a leading role in the scandal over the NCAA's unethical use of an outside attorney at UM than was originally known.

 

Regarding the Jackie Sherrill investigation:

 

In 2002, the NCAA began probing MSU's program over alleged recruiting violations. Again, Johanningmeier and other NCAA investigators pulled information from a source with a clear bias. This time, the secret witness was a University of Mississippi booster named Julie Gilbert, according to the lawsuit.

In December 2003, MSU and Sherrill were handed notices of allegations. Among accusations of impermissible contact and illegal expenses for recruits, the most damning claim alleged that coach Sherrill promised a high schooler a car if he attended the school. As evidence, the report referenced a conversation between the coach and the student's grandfather.

But the family countered the claim, adding that the NCAA investigator knew it was false before making an official charge. According to affidavits included in a defamation lawsuit Sherrill filed in 2004 against the NCAA and Johanningmeier, three of the student's family members said their testimony was misused.

 

Want to know why Bama people really hate the NCAA, and get agitated when somebody starts discussing the Albert Means fiasco?

 

From the article:

 

(Former Alabama Asst. coach Ivy) Williams says when he declined to finger other members of the Alabama staff, he and another Alabama assistant coach, Ronnie Cottrell, were targeted. What followed was jurisprudence straight out of Kafka; the NCAA's ammo all came from secret witnesses the accused were never allowed to confront.

 

"They tell you all this stuff about what somebody has said about you and what you supposedly did, but they never tell you who that person is," Williams says with frustration. "And they tell you what you can't talk about and what you shouldn't say, and the next day, it's leaked out."

 

The NCAA threatened to cancel the Alabama program. Williams was accused of three major violations: knowing about the Means pay-for-play setup and staying quiet; lying to Johanningmeier about Means' recruitment; and exceeding the number of permitted high school visits in Memphis.

 

But before the coach could officially mount a defense, the NCAA yanked the first two — more serious — charges. Despite the witch-trial atmosphere surrounding the case, neither coach nor assistant coach was found guilty of infractions.

 

Together, they filed a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA, Johanningmeier, and others involved. During pretrial hearings, their lawyers discovered the secret source for the bulk of the accusations: a recruiting scout who had no evidence. Johanningmeier had originally contacted the source on a tip from the head coach at Alabama rival the University of Tennessee. The Bama coaches had essentially been railroaded based on the questionable testimony of a single unsubstantiated source with a conflict of interest.

 

In 2005, a jury handed Cottrell, the other assistant coach, a $30 million judgment, which was later thrown out by a judge on technical grounds. Williams didn't win anything. Although their names were cleared, the stain of the investigation has scared away most Division I programs.

 

"It is the most blatantly un-American thing ever," says Thomas Gallion, a lawyer who represented both Bama coaches. "The NCAA, they were one of the more corrupt, blatantly — for lack of a better word — Hitleristic organizations I've ever seen."

 

Side note: The U of Tenn HC and one of the secret witnesses being referred to in this article was none other than Fat Phil Fulmer.

 

And this is only the tip of the iceberg.