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发帖数: 764 | 1 Mark Emmert, you have lost our confidence in your ability to do the job.
The next time you speak, we won't be able to take you seriously thanks to
news that Ohio State would not face additional charges of failure to monitor
or lack of institutional control in the school's infraction case.
'It's all about what the NCAA can prove, not what we've read' is the company
line. Well, you had a chance to prove things but you said you weren't going
to try.
CBSSports.com took a thorough look at cheating in college football, spending
nine days chronicling just how rampant the rule breaking has been over the
years. The purpose was the examine the subject with an eye towards where the
sport was headed in the near future.
Senior writer Dennis Dodd ended the series saying Ohio State would be a
landmark case going forward.
"This is what NCAA president Mark Emmert has been advocating, a way to make
the cheaters and liars think twice about cheating and lying," Dodd wrote.
The president failed, however, to send that message Friday. Emmert has
called for tougher enforcement numerous times since taking office and here,
in front of a primetime audience, was his Howard Beale moment.
He could have sent a message that he was mad as hell and wasn't going to
take it anymore. Instead, he lost what little confidence we had in "fixing"
college athletics.
Dennis Thomas, the chairman of the Committee on Infractions, said on a
conference call earlier this month that the committee "was not in the
business of sending messages."
Sorry to say it, but the NCAA's enforcement staff and the Committee on
Infractions are in the business of sending messages.
They sent one loud and clear: It's ok to cheat. Blame it on the coach if you
get caught. No need to monitor emails either.
But you better check on that house 100 miles away.
Emmert has talked about openness and a better understanding. The
organization invited several members of the national media to Indianapolis
for what they called the "Enforcement Experience."
The aim of it, as Vice President for Enforcement Julie Roe Lach explained to
compliance officers from across the country, was for a good number of
positive pieces and to remind everybody that the NCAA and the Committee on
Infractions are separate.
Last I checked though, the enforcement staff reports to the president. If
Emmert wanted to push for a message, a simple walk down the hall could have
resulted in serious charges against Ohio State.
According to interview transcripts, Jim Tressel mentioned an email tip to
school compliance officers but failed to mention what was actually in the
emails. The compliance office - or anyone else for that matter - failed to
follow up on this. Yet the NCAA enforcement staff said the school "followed
up on tips it received."
The school said they only found out about the emails in January "due to an
unrelated legal matter." Ask Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany though and he'
ll tell you it was due to a FOIA request.
Appears no one, not even one of the most powerful people in the country,
could get an accurate answer from the Buckeyes.
At one point in an interview, Tressel told the NCAA that Ohio State told him
to get rid of documents so they wouldn't become public record.
The folks at Enron are very impressed.
If the committee can nail USC based on a two minute, thirty-two second phone
call, they surely could nail Ohio State with all that.
Ohio State was lauded by many as having a large and well respected
compliance office. Yet both the NCAA and Ohio State agreed in December that
their education efforts were inadequate. That was the basis for allowing the
so-called "Buckeye Five" to play in the Sugar Bowl.
So Ohio State didn't do a good job at rules education in December but by
July, according to the case summary, the institution "provided education to
football student-athletes and staff regarding extra benefits and
preferential treatment."
That statement was contradicted by the enforcement staff five paragraphs
later by the way.
"The institution took monitoring efforts designed to identify the sale or
distribution of institutionally issued athletics awards, apparel apparel and
equipment," but somehow didn't know Terrele Pryor was taking "whatever" he
wanted out of the equipment room.
And let's not forget the school's treatment of their beloved "Senator."
"This is an individual that I have tremendous respect for," University
president E. Gordon Gee said of Tressel on March 8. "He's had great success
in working with young people and we applaud that. But I think equally
importantly, he's had great success in building the character and reputation
for this university, which I'm entirely grateful for. He's done so by
example."
A few months later in the Buckeyes' self-report: "The institution is
embarrassed by the actions of Tressel."
At least the flip-flopping when they're backed into a corner is consistent.
There's still one more chance for the organization to say enough is enough.
The committee could add a failure to monitor charge or lack of institutional
control charge following Ohio State's August 12th meeting with them. The
committee did it with Indiana in the Kelvin Sampson case but has rarely done
so. It can also choose to punish the school harshly despite the two serious
charges, as it did with Alabama several years ago in the Albert Means case.
They can also cite the enforcement staff for doing a bad job, which they
have also done on occasion.
"I fully expect that every NCAA member institution be held to the same high
standards," Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said after USC's appeal was
denied.
But based on everything that's happened so far with Ohio State, does anyone
expect them to? Athletic director Gene Smith was the recent chairman of the
NCAA Men's Basketball committee. Gee was Emmert's boss years ago at Colorado.
And even if the committee did hold them to those same high standards set in
the USC case?
"I'll be shocked and disappointed and on the offensive, Smith told The
Columbus Dispatch. "If I don't agree, we'll do everything we can to battle
it and go through the appeals process."
Don't worry Gene, you've already won. Sorry Mark, you didn't.
After all, actions, Mr. Emmert, speak louder than words. | H*****r
发帖数: 764 | 2 搞了半天NCAA的头和OSU的是好相好。。。
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【在 H*****r 的大作中提到】
: Mark Emmert, you have lost our confidence in your ability to do the job.
: The next time you speak, we won't be able to take you seriously thanks to
: news that Ohio State would not face additional charges of failure to monitor
: or lack of institutional control in the school's infraction case.
: 'It's all about what the NCAA can prove, not what we've read' is the company
: line. Well, you had a chance to prove things but you said you weren't going
: to try.
: CBSSports.com took a thorough look at cheating in college football, spending
: nine days chronicling just how rampant the rule breaking has been over the
: years. The purpose was the examine the subject with an eye towards where the
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【在 H*****r 的大作中提到】
: Mark Emmert, you have lost our confidence in your ability to do the job.
: The next time you speak, we won't be able to take you seriously thanks to
: news that Ohio State would not face additional charges of failure to monitor
: or lack of institutional control in the school's infraction case.
: 'It's all about what the NCAA can prove, not what we've read' is the company
: line. Well, you had a chance to prove things but you said you weren't going
: to try.
: CBSSports.com took a thorough look at cheating in college football, spending
: nine days chronicling just how rampant the rule breaking has been over the
: years. The purpose was the examine the subject with an eye towards where the
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