Internal Emails Show NCAA Questioned Their Authority to Sanction Penn State

[knapplc]

The NCAA is a sham. We all know this. But it isn't often you get proof in writing. Thanks to some dogged FOIA work, we have some. And more may be coming.

Internal Emails Show NCAA Questioned Authority to Sanction Penn State

To recap: these emails reveal that the NCAA knew it had no jurisdictional claim over an inherently criminal matter but chose to act anyway, banking on Penn State’s compliance. Of course, the rest is history — Penn State President Rodney Erickson, with the backing of Board of Trustees leadership, did comply to the NCAA’s extortion, despite it being characterized here as a “bluff.” The actual reasons for that decision are still hidden behind a wall of public relations flack — I tend to think it had something to do with the corporate “apologize and move on” method of management that permeates Penn State leadership these days – but these emails expose the NCAA for extremely questionable governing practices at the very least.

If this sort of blunt language is in the emails the NCAA chose NOT to fight, imagine the stuff in the ones it did. In any case, discovery should be fun.

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[Stumpy1]

This could play a big factor in other cases that the NCAA dealt with, tOSU and USC come to mind.

Does the NCAA get charged with extortion then? This will get interesting as more is revealed.