08-18-2011, 05:38 PM
I haven't gotten into the weeds of the SC case, and I don't think they got railroaded, exactly.
I do think that the NCAA plays favorites, though, and this was a case of selective enforcement. The NCAA pursued the SC case with a zealousness that it doesn't show very often. And I don't think the reason the NCAA pursued this case so forcefully is because the underlying violations were any more egregious than at lots of other schools that have gone off more lightly.
The main reason I believe this is that someone who works for the NCAA told me a few years ago, before the sanctions against SC came down, that the NCAA's enforcement director was nearing retirement, and he was telling people that he wanted to nail SC as a retirement gift to himself. I heard that directly from an NCAA employee.
I do think that the NCAA plays favorites, though, and this was a case of selective enforcement. The NCAA pursued the SC case with a zealousness that it doesn't show very often. And I don't think the reason the NCAA pursued this case so forcefully is because the underlying violations were any more egregious than at lots of other schools that have gone off more lightly.
The main reason I believe this is that someone who works for the NCAA told me a few years ago, before the sanctions against SC came down, that the NCAA's enforcement director was nearing retirement, and he was telling people that he wanted to nail SC as a retirement gift to himself. I heard that directly from an NCAA employee.