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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 2271984, member: 622"] You are trying to be legalistic. However, the NCAA has "rules" to ensure "moral" behavior. Players "cannot" be paid by boosters, get jobs with boosters, get free stuff from boosters, etc.; just a sampling of the "moral" issues the NCAA guards against due to the efforts by others in the past to entice players to attend/play for said boosters' schools. Protecting a criminal is a legal issue, doing so is a moral issue, i.e. cheating, so, yes, the NCAA does have governance over the matter. What you are really arguing is that the NCAA bylaws don't have a specific rule stating that protecting a criminal coach/coordinator is a form a cheating when the &^$% should be in jail so the PedState incident is not in their "wheelhouse". Your argument falls flat on its face because protecting a criminal is a crime and is a cheat in the legal world; therefore, it is a cheat in the civil world, too. It also carries civil penalties on top of the criminal penalties and civil litigation requires only the preponderance of the evidence (50% plus anything). What you are saying is that using child molesters for recruiting and coaching is not cheating. If the NCAA is about protecting the student athlete, how can you claim they are protecting student athletes who are being recruited and coached at camps at young ages who are the prey of the molester/coach/recruiter? By your reasoning, why is the NCAA involved with Baylor? Furthermore, why would the NCAA investigate PedState when they knew there was no bylaw stating the exact violations occurred and knowing the issues were "not in their wheelhouse"? It appears that the NCAA was looking for an excuse to get out of the PedState mess. They will likely repeat with UNC and possibly Baylor. The NCAA should have stuck to their guns and forced the issue, making PedState sue the NCAA over their (weak) punishment, they would not be in a predicament now with UNC and Baylor, the NCAA would look and be stronger and have more enforcement capability and credibility. [/QUOTE]

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