<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Get The Picture]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://blutarsky.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Senator Blutarsky]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/author/blutarsky/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Secondary violations:  fine for me, but not for&nbsp;thee.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>If you want to understand what&#8217;s screwed up about the wonderful world of NCAA recruiting violations, <a href="http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/12/solomon_ncaa_hopes_suspending.html" target="_blank">this article</a> is a great place to start.</p>
<p>Grant Teaff tells us that the coaches are fed up about secondary violations and, by God, it&#8217;s time to do something about that.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230; Coaches have displayed a growing lack of respect for NCAA  enforcement. And why not? A slap on the wrist for a secondary violation  is worth it if bending the rules helps to land an elite player.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s created an unlevel playing field,&#8221; AFCA Executive Director Grant Teaff said. &#8220;If I&#8217;m sitting there as a head coach and you&#8217;re one of my  assistants and can&#8217;t coach for two weeks, I&#8217;m not going to be a very  happy head coach. As much as anything, I think this is going to be a  deterrent.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Except no violator&#8217;s name is going to be made public.  And why not, you may ask?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Part of that goes to a bigger philosophy of not making secondary violations public, some of which are for legal reasons,&#8221; said Chris Strobel,  NCAA director of enforcement for secondary violations. &#8220;Part of that is  they&#8217;re typically not the type of violations that should subject the  particular individual to <strong>the type of scrutiny that could prevent their  employment from other institutions</strong>.&#8221;<em> [Emphasis added.]</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Got that?  Condemn this as long as it&#8217;s going on at another institution, but don&#8217;t let the Lane Kiffin wannabes lose a shot at getting hired somewhere else, because who knows when you may have need of a little envelope pushing to help your program?</p>
<p>These people are a joke.</p>
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