http://www.ncaa.org/enforcement/enforcement-process-hearings
Are witnesses called during a hearing?
No. The committee may ask questions of involved individuals at the hearing and may also inquire about information reported by witnesses or developed by the enforcement staff, institution or involved individuals. However, witnesses are not summoned.
gonna need a breakdown on what "a regular answer" constitutes, legally.
http://www.ncaa.org/enforcement/enforcement-process-hearings
Are witnesses called during a hearing?
No. The committee may ask questions of involved individuals at the hearing and may also inquire about information reported by witnesses or developed by the enforcement staff, institution or involved individuals. However, witnesses are not summoned.
I read the NOA and Ole Miss' response yesterday. Of course I couldn't read the attachment with the evidence for each allegation due to the fact that's protected on the NCAA website and holds all of the information that the investigators drew their conclusions from.
The most glaring problems OM faces are these:
1. In the allegations naming Freeze, it was pointed out that he stated he asked his compliance dept about a video made of recruits. The NOA states om's compliance department didn't know of that request. That speaks to his credibility and whether he was actively trying to monitor.
2. The problems with their handling the entire recruitment of SA39. Freeze Spoke with him when he knew he shouldn't have at a game. There are numerous times sa39 had contact with boosters and Barney. The dollar amounts. The RR issue is serious, but defending yourself by saying the booster has no record of a card being swiped and no record of a sale is, well, asinine. Of course there isn't a record.
The one thing I do say could help mitigate individual penalties is that there are so many serious ones that the COI could extend an olive leaf and throw one out and not make a dent in the penalties. Sort of a consolation prize.
That said, the credibility of sa39,40 and stepdad are only in question in om's eyes. Not in the ncaa's. That ship sailed. Om didn't respond with much of any evidence that reverses the enforcement staffs conclusions. Sure, it calls them into question. But that isn't the standard. The COI looks at the totality of the investigation and penalizes.
Freeze, Kiffin, Farrar are not getting off on technicalities. After reading allegation 21, I'm wondering if Bjork survives.
If the NCAA backs off on anything, they lose. This case is their way of telling all the other schools that we will hammer you to the ground if we catch you cheating . Letting OM slide on anything that they have proof for will lopen the door for "special circumstances" at other places.
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