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Whether you believe it illogical or not, it's the way the NCAA has always done business. Again, so Jerry is in jail, Joe is dead, the other 3 Amigos are pending trial so no more issue right? Using that line of thought, Jim Tressel & the Tat 5 are gone, Pete Carroll & Reggie Bush had already left USC, Ron Meyer left SMU in 85 so there should have never been NCAA issues there either. The culture problem is that the leaders of your program allowed the program to be more important than those young boys. They were the cause and should have been the solution. They ignored the issue to avoid bad press and allowed your program competitive advantage for years. The NCAA doesn't need due process. You (like every other school) belong to a private club and are subject to their private rules, and at their discretion. It is the governor's & the senator's right to attempt to fight this. It just makes looks even worse to everybody else. What about the victims that those individuals allowed your school to be used as bait for? What else would the NCAA have found if they had done their own investigation? The school president probably had that on his mind as well when he agreed to accept the Freeh report instead of having the NCAA come in and do their own. Don't even try to say no one ever got their fingernails dirty over there, because they absolutely did. You just never got caught.

You are correct. I do want the BIG to step up, and thus, my comments were hypocritcal.