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September 2010, NCAA-Conferences
Gumbel Cites NCAA's Hypocrisy
HBO's Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel questioned why the NCAA would punish USC so harshly for student-athlete interactions with agents and yet would not punish the University of Florida's Urban Meyer for having 27 football players arrested for criminal behavior. His suggestion is to hold coaches and AD's as accountable for criminality as eligibility.
"Look, no one's naïve enough to think football's ever going to be played by a bunch of choirboys. It's not. But you'd think that NCAA officials could, at the very least, give coaches and athletic directors a reason to be as diligent about illegality as they are about eligibility - and right now they don't. Until and unless they do, the NCAA's idea of institutional control is anything but," Gumbel said. To read more, click here.