Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which must hurry today or risk going over the 37.5 hours I’m allowed to work in one week.
We’ll be heavy on the NCAA’s special delivery and for that I kind of apologize. There’s some stuff I’ll leave out — you handled the scholarship numbers debate quite nicely — because this NCAA thing is too big and too complex to merely flip through today.
No need for an introduction today. I think everything I think and know can be wedged into the replies to the very smart and very appropriate comments regarding the case.
I will offer four observations. Two might to increase your heartbeat and two might slow it:
1) When did Rodriguez begin closed practices? Prior to the 2005 season.
2) If someone is thought to have done something that merits an accusation from the NCAA and that someone’s job no longer exists, but that someone remains employed by the university, what kind of dirt might that someone have?
3) You’re not going to lose past wins or future television appearances.
4) You’re now a more qualified candidate for the SEC.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, file the appropriate paperwork.
Foul Shot said:
This all just makes us look bad.
Since this all happened on Asbestos Ed’s watch, can he be let go from the emeritus position which is paying that ridiculous salary for doing absolutely nothing?
Also, about the comments regarding Stew, if he was doing wrong, I think he should be cleared out too.
I like Stew and I like his values that he speaks of, but practice what I preach and not what I do just won’t cut it. Especially if WVU goes on some sort of probation.
I agree, I dont see how WVU compares to a USC regarding a probation, but just the thought of us not being clean really bothers me. I guess I would have to have my head in the sand though to think we would be totally clean.
A lot of people were thrown from high horses. WVU could always punctuate a conversation with a rival like, say, Marshall by saying, “Well, at least we do it the right way.” That changes now, no matter how widespread this sort of behavior is today. It does make WVU look bad — not SMU or USC bad, but still bad — and that’s never happened with football here. Let’s give Stewart and Pastilong a look. First, Pastilong wasn’t asked to appear at the infractions hearing, which I thought was strange. Not because I feel he’s guilty, but because he was the AD during the years in question. The NCAA requested the former compliance director appear, so why not Ed? There’s a very serious allegation compliance was making a fuss over the football staff breaking rules and the fuss went uncured. Someone in charge decided to overlook that, right? And it’s the athletic department, and not the institution, that’s charged with a failure to monitor. It’s almost always the institution. As for Stewart, he’s hurt the most, I believe, because everything he says and does in his daily walk contradicts what is said and done by a cheater. I don’t think he’s a cheater, but he’s accused of allowing rules to be broken on his watch. There are clauses in both contracts that say both can be fired for running afoul of the NCAA, but I highly doubt that happens.
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