Published Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:10 pm EDT Last updated 10 hours and 57 minutes ago
At some point NCAA membership will have to address the overwhelming ogre in the room: Why does embattled president Mark Emmert still have a job?
The reason could be this simple: Firing Emmert could do more harm than good.
?If you force him out, you?re essentially telling everyone he has failed,? one NCAA president told Sporting News. ?When you?re dealing with (litigation), it?s not prudent to admit failure at the highest office.?
The NCAA currently is in the process of defending lawsuits from Emmert?s handling of the Penn State case, including one from Joe Paterno?s family.
Of greater concern is the Ed O?Bannon case, where former athletes are suing the NCAA for use of their likeness?a watershed case that will be heard later this month and could lead to student-athletes getting a share of television money.
The last thing the NCAA needs is to publicly admit it has zero direction in such a tenuous time for college sports? governing body. It also doesn?t need more public relations gut punches like it sustained (again) on Wednesday, when Sports Illustrated spoke to ex-NCAA investigators who further detailed a dysfunctional organization on the brink of implosion.
One ex-investigator told SI, ?The time is ripe to cheat. There?s no policing going on.?
It was Emmert himself who admitted earlier this year that the NCAA hired the attorney of an incarcerated former booster they were investigating to help investigate the very institution they were investigating.
If that?s not bad enough, numerous NCAA investigators have left during Emmert?s tenure; some by their own choice and others fired. Julie Roe Lach, the head of the enforcement division, was forced out earlier this year because of the failed Miami investigation.
Emmert said in January that the association hired Miami booster Nevin Shapiro?s attorney in December of 2011, then tried to say he found out about it a year later. In the SI story, former investigators say Emmert was so involved in cases, he would discuss the status of cases with presidents of schools under investigation.
?He is incapable of looking in the mirror and figuring out that he could be the problem,? one administrator of a BCS school told Sporting News. ?A leader with a personality like that, it affects everyone he manages and it affects the way the organization is run.?
Remember this: Emmert was hired by the NCAA membership. His job is to execute their academic and athletic (and financial) goals. The only way he leaves is if those same presidents admit they failed, too?by hiring him.
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