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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 2868006, member: 549"] [URL="https://sports.yahoo.com/guys-keep-jobs-major-ncaa-programs-prepare-federal-corruption-trial-fallout-144438938.html"]'How do these guys keep their jobs?' Major NCAA programs prepare for federal corruption trial fallout[/URL] >>“The other shoe is dropping, and it’s dropping hard,” said Notre Dame coach Mike Brey. “It’s amazingly captivating, and I have a feeling it’s going to be a lot worse before it gets better. This is really a crossroads.” The intriguing part of the sport’s dirty laundry being hung across social media is that it’s actually part of the plan for defense attorneys in the case. To prove the innocence of two men affiliated with Adidas (Jim Gatto and Merl Code)a runner (Christian Dawkins), the lawyers are demonstrating in detail the pervasive nature of transactions that violate NCAA rules — but may not violate the law. Stephen L. Hill, a partner at Dentons in Kansas City who prosecuted the Myron Piggie case a generation ago, summed up the strategy this way: “We admit to everything. We’re going to burn down the house completely and you can’t convict us for burning the house down. It was a bad house to start with.”<< >>It remains unclear what evidence the NCAA would be able to import from this trial, and the process of determining that could be arduous. The NCAA membership has long called for faster investigations, but legal challenges to importation would snarl a process meant to expedite the disposition of cases. These are all challenges that the NCAA — and perhaps more acutely, its member schools — must reconcile quickly. A new season draws nigh, and the damage done to the credibility of college basketball by another year of university inaction in response to scandal would be immense. “There better be some ineligible players this year,” Brey said. “Some guys better not be playing. It’s on NCAA enforcement to get moving.”<< [/QUOTE]

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