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Crime pays for NCAA
Permit me (Phil Mushnick) to repeat what I’ve been writing for years: Racketeering indictments against Division I university authorities for allowing their schools to serve as fronts for crooked sports programs could not be successfully defended before an objective jury.
The only difference between many D-I football and basketball programs and organized crime is mascots.
You can now take your pick: Sexual assault cover-ups, financial fraud cover-ups, academic fraud cover-ups, drug-testing fraud cover-ups, sneaker company payola cover-ups, “hooked up” adult criminals recruiting vulnerable young criminals.
TV calls these “distractions.”
The NCAA is not only overmatched to meet such things, its investigators are hired at increased pay by schools to serve as rules loophole specialists. Telling, no?
It’s no accident the extensive September arrests of college basketball coaches/recruiters for pocketing Adidas influence cash was the work of the FBI, not the NCAA.
As for priorities, the school’s highest-paid — often by millions — employees are coaches, often with fat bonuses for winning. Compromise is virtually guaranteed; fraud a small step beyond.
This Michigan State horror? Of course, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims. Now back to the game.
Permit me (Phil Mushnick) to repeat what I’ve been writing for years: Racketeering indictments against Division I university authorities for allowing their schools to serve as fronts for crooked sports programs could not be successfully defended before an objective jury.
The only difference between many D-I football and basketball programs and organized crime is mascots.
You can now take your pick: Sexual assault cover-ups, financial fraud cover-ups, academic fraud cover-ups, drug-testing fraud cover-ups, sneaker company payola cover-ups, “hooked up” adult criminals recruiting vulnerable young criminals.
TV calls these “distractions.”
The NCAA is not only overmatched to meet such things, its investigators are hired at increased pay by schools to serve as rules loophole specialists. Telling, no?
It’s no accident the extensive September arrests of college basketball coaches/recruiters for pocketing Adidas influence cash was the work of the FBI, not the NCAA.
As for priorities, the school’s highest-paid — often by millions — employees are coaches, often with fat bonuses for winning. Compromise is virtually guaranteed; fraud a small step beyond.
This Michigan State horror? Of course, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims. Now back to the game.