NEW YORK TIMES: …Amid the increasing scrutiny, Mark Emmert, the N.C.A.A.’s president, disclosed in late January that the organization’s investigators had made “shocking” missteps in a major inquiry involving the University of Miami — and as a result, the N.C.A.A. commissioned an unprecedented outside investigation of its own enforcement program…
“The N.C.A.A. has a lot of work to do to rebuild faith in its process for enforcement actions,” said Tyrone Thomas, a Washington lawyer with the firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo who advises on enforcement cases. “This is a pretty public admission they need to look at all aspects of the process from the top down, including those persons charged with oversight of enforcement.”
It is also likely to increase public scrutiny of Emmert, who in two of the N.C.A.A.’s most high-profile cases since he took over in 2010 — Miami and the child sexual abuse case involving Penn State — has seemed to put distance between himself and results of the investigations. In the Penn State case, the N.C.A.A. did not conduct its own investigation, instead relying on the findings of a report by the former F.B.I. director Louis J. Freeh. Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania has initiated a lawsuit against the N.C.A.A. stemming from the penalties it levied… (more)
