Mark Emmert (NCAA President on PBS) discussing PSU scandal and other issues

[ChitownHusker]

It is a long interview, but very interesting throughout. The first half deals with PSU. Emmert is being just coy enough not to take a firm position, but my takeaway is that he is signalling very strongly that he believes that the NCAA's jurisdiction is implicated by the misconduct here (and particularly the lack of institutional control), and that the misconduct is bigger than anything that has ever faced college football before. He specifically declined to take the death penalty off the table. This interview leads me to believe that the death penalty is a very distinct possibility in this case.


http://video.pbs.org/video/2257100910

Unfortunately, I cannot get the embed to work, otherwise I would post the video here.

[Pops]

It is a long interview, but very interesting throughout. The first half deals with PSU. Emmert is being just coy enough not to take a firm position, but my takeaway is that he is signalling very strongly that he believes that the NCAA's jurisdiction is implicated by the misconduct here (and particularly the lack of institutional control), and that the misconduct is bigger than anything that has ever faced college football before. He specifically declined to take the death penalty off the table. This interview leads me to believe that the death penalty is a very distinct possibility in this case.


http://video.pbs.org/video/2257100910

Unfortunately, I cannot get the embed to work, otherwise I would post the video here.

We can only hope!

[Cardinal]

It is a long interview, but very interesting throughout. The first half deals with PSU. Emmert is being just coy enough not to take a firm position, but my takeaway is that he is signalling very strongly that he believes that the NCAA's jurisdiction is implicated by the misconduct here (and particularly the lack of institutional control), and that the misconduct is bigger than anything that has ever faced college football before. He specifically declined to take the death penalty off the table. This interview leads me to believe that the death penalty is a very distinct possibility in this case.


http://video.pbs.org/video/2257100910

Unfortunately, I cannot get the embed to work, otherwise I would post the video here.

Yes. He said on multiple occasions that the PSU case is the worst the NCAA's ever seen, or words to that effect.

How can PSU answer the NCAA formal questions with which they've been presented, concerning in what fashion the university was organized to prevent the football program or athletics department from going rogue like this, when the principal players in the matter include the President of the university and the athletics director?

Maybe they will take the angle that all the safeguards were in place, but when individuals in high places do bad things, criminal things, and hide them, it is impossible for the university to discover them, despite the university's (the Board of Trustees' ?) best intent and best measures. The problem with such responses is that they likely will be discoverable in the civil actions that are pending or to come against PSU (you active members of the litigation bar would know better than I; but I would doubt there is any privilege or immunity for responses given to a non-governmental association to which the defendant institution has chosen to belong).

[BakNthday]

I heard his interview and, yes, it sounds like the NCAA is not going to minimize this. Unprecedented territory for everyone.

[Speedlimit]

Yes. He said on multiple occasions that the PSU case is the worst the NCAA's ever seen, or words to that effect.

How can PSU answer the NCAA formal questions with which they've been presented, concerning in what fashion the university was organized to prevent the football program or athletics department from going rogue like this, when the principal players in the matter include the President of the university and the athletics director?

Maybe they will take the angle that all the safeguards were in place, but when individuals in high places do bad things, criminal things, and hide them, it is impossible for the university to discover them, despite the university's (the Board of Trustees' ?) best intent and best measures. The problem with such responses is that they likely will be discoverable in the civil actions that are pending or to come against PSU (you active members of the litigation bar would know better than I; but I would doubt there is any privilege or immunity for responses given to a non-governmental association to which the defendant institution has chosen to belong).

But the BoT just announced they are going to remodel the showers.

PSU has been both proactive in preventing things like this and they have put every effort possible since the crap-can lid blew off this scandal to make things right.

How can the NCAA argue otherwise????