The Blue Board

There is nothing wrong with the NCAA using the Freeh Report. But it is just a report. PSU should have been served by the NCAA with a NOI and had a chance to respond. The Freeh Report is not some legally binding document based on rules of evidence and due process. It's one man's opinions and he didn't even have an opportunity to interview many of the parties because of the pending criminal cases. The NCAA should use all the evidence at its disposal, but that doesn't mean it should disregard proper rules and procedures.

The Freeh Report is way more comprehensive than any report that the NCAA has ever come up with. NCAA piggy backs on most other investigations to find their information. This is no different. Only thing they should have done differently is let it go through the Board of Infractions instead of trying to just make it quick with Emmert.

I did answer your question. I said that Kiffin was a smart man for doing what he did. Also, seeing as where both programs currently stand, those recruits should've followed him to SC.

It is and it isn't. Freeh never interviewed Curley, Schultz or McQueary among others. Or even some of the victims. The AG requested Free not to do so until the criminal cases were completed. Apparently, Freeh also never interviewed anyone from the Paterno family. Jay was the QB coach. How could you not interview all the coaches? Did he interview the rest of the coaching staff (idk the answer)? Freeh had the benefit of $6.5 million, but there is plenty missing from the report. And I'm not saying the NCAA shouldn't use the report, but separate the facts from the opinions and give PSU a chance to respond to the allegations.

PSU's BOT are the ones that signed off on the Freeh report. They are the ones that took it as complete. BOT can't fight that the only thing they can fight IMO is that to argue this isn't a NCAA matter.

Interesting situation, BOT will end up accepting the punishment once the NCAA threatens with far worse penalties. Can't see how this ends up well for Penn State.

Ok, if the BOT has accepted all the conclusions in the Freeh Report, fine. I had not seen that. But whatever. It's still no reason to toss out the NCAA's own process. Deliver a NOI to PSU based on the Freeh Report. Give them 90 days to respond. Schedule a hearing so the COI can ask any questions they have and so PSU has a chance to defend themselves against the alleged infractions in the NOI. The COI issues a written ruling in 4-8 weeks. Allow an appeal. What is so difficult about that?

So again let me get this right. The BOT had a big disconnect with your last incompetent president and he was fired for that among other things. They hire a new one and there's obviously a disconnect between the BOT and the new president. Or the president is incompetent and just going on his own accord which is the reason why you are in this in the first place. your BOT sound like more of a problem then any solution.

I'd think he was offered his dream job and had to make a quick decision that in the end looks like the right one. What about Urban being too stressed to coach at UF but being okay to coach at tOSU? Or a coach floating rumors about taking a job up north to pull more cash out of a school? There's no end to pointing fingers at coaches because it's a rough profession that sometimes calls for some heartless decisions.

As far as telling any kids that were early entries not to attend class he was responding to their inquiries about eligibility for transfer not specifically eligibility at USC. If that was the truth why didn't more players follow him?

It is the football culture ingrained in the BOT. I saw an interview with one of them the other day with Erickson and another person about the Paterno statue. The BOT member hemmed and hawed about about what a big debate it was within the board and they finally, reluctantly agreed it should come down but kind of and not really but if we have to then ok call me maybe.

Supposedly he can't make certain contracts without consent of the board. Who knows what fits under that. And the contract would stick If the ncaa should have known that he didn't have the authority to sign the contract. Who knows what's true and what isn't. I don't think the board will be fighting this, though.

Yes, it would. The President has certain authority given to him by the school's charter or directly by the BOT itself. Most major decisions, especially those above a certain dollar threshold, require board approval. Your new video boards, for example, probably required board approval. Anything the requires borrowing a large sum of money (which this might) generally requires board approval. Erickson most likely informed Emmert he was going to need to take this to the BOT, so it's very likely tonight's meeting is no surprise at all to the NCAA. I'm sure Erickson and the NCAA expect this to be approved by the BOT (and it probably will). But it's not outside the realm the BOT decides to go in another direction.

I don't disagree with him going to USC at all. It clearly was a job he would have rather had. I don't blame him for that at all. The telling kids that are already on UTs campus a couple days before school starts to not go to class and follow him to USC which would make UTs class even worse than it already was going to be since Kiffin left. When our coordinators leave usually they don't try and recruit the players they just recruited for us.