The NCAA has learned the power that delaying a decision brings. First and foremost is the effect is has on recruiting. In recruiting the delay allows a schools opponents to use innuendo as to what the NCAA will pass out for punishment, but also how the recruit will be devalued by association with such university. The longer the delay the more difficult the task becomes in overcoming negative recruiting. The NCAA in knowing this has no urgency or reason to speed up the process, letting the process drag, in actuality is penalizing the institution.
In the case with Carolina the NCAA stepped back in when the Wainstein report was close to being finished. NCAA wanted to know if know if further in fractions had occurred and was this an Athletic Department issue. Wainstein reported his findings directly to the NCAA; this is an academic issue not athletic. Now the NCAA is stuck, it cannot tell institutions how to run classes. NCAA wants to give Carolina the death penalty, across the board in all sports. Remember athletes from many sports took these classes. NCAA by delaying the process is for all intents and purposes penalizing Carolina. If the NCAA sent a Notice of Allegations before October I’d be surprised. Brandon Ingram was just the first to verbally state that he was influenced by negative recruiting.
In the case with Carolina the NCAA stepped back in when the Wainstein report was close to being finished. NCAA wanted to know if know if further in fractions had occurred and was this an Athletic Department issue. Wainstein reported his findings directly to the NCAA; this is an academic issue not athletic. Now the NCAA is stuck, it cannot tell institutions how to run classes. NCAA wants to give Carolina the death penalty, across the board in all sports. Remember athletes from many sports took these classes. NCAA by delaying the process is for all intents and purposes penalizing Carolina. If the NCAA sent a Notice of Allegations before October I’d be surprised. Brandon Ingram was just the first to verbally state that he was influenced by negative recruiting.
