State of the NCAA as well as proactive schools raiding its compliance dept.
SI spoke with more than 20 current or former NCAA employees about the troubles of the NCAA enforcement staff for a lengthy story in this week's Sports Illustrated. A portrait emerged of a department battered by turnover, afraid of lawsuits and overwhelmed by scandal. One ex-enforcement official told SI, "The time is ripe to cheat. There's no policing going on."
Morale is at an all-time low among the enforcement staff as several respected veterans -- Dave Didion (Auburn), Marcus Wilson (Maryland) and Chance Miller (South Carolina) -- have left for college compliance positions since April. On Tuesday the department received another huge blow when Rachel Newman-Baker, the managing director for enforcement, development and investigators, left for a compliance job at Kentucky. Newman-Baker is the highest ranking member of the department to leave since enforcement vice president Julie Roe Lach was fired in February in the wake of missteps in the Miami investigation.
"With Rachel gone," another ex-NCAA staffer said, "there's really only two investigators (Angie Cretors and LuAnn Humphrey) left with experience in major football and basketball cases."
Aug 5, 2013 ... Nine-year veteran of NCAA, Angie Cretors, goes to UConn.
In the last five years we have overhauled our entire athletics department...new basketball coach, new baseball coach, new football coach, new athletics director. However, you could probably make an argument that our compliance department should have been the first to be restructured. Well..maybe second after Croom.