From the ATHENS BANNER-HERALD/ AP:
State trustees took no formal vote but the vast majority of members voiced support Sunday for the university president’s acceptance of tough penalties imposed by the NCAA over the university’s handling of its child molestation scandal…
Erickson told trustees that he was told that an overwhelming majority of NCAA officials “wanted blood” and the consent decree was “a take-it-or-leave-it proposition” — and any leak of details would take the deal off the table. After consulting with the university’s executive committee and receiving legal advice that he had the power to do so, he signed the agreement, he said…
Trustee Anthony Lubrano, however, said he too wanted to move forward but “not at the price of our proud past.” He criticized the actions of the NCAA and the resources it relied upon, especially the school’s internal investigation led by former FBI director Louis Freeh, the findings of which he called “so inconsistent with reality that I find them to be intentionally inflammatory.”
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EDITOR: Why the secretcy? Why the rush to judgment?
