Hypocrisy knows no bounds with the NCAA.
The NCAA had punished USC and Pete Carroll for having a consultant participate in reviewing special teams, by calling the consultant an impermissible extra coach, and was cited as part of their lack of institutional control charge against the Trojans. Today, the NCAA has granted Ohio State (excuse me, The Ohio State) an extra coach -- Urban Meyer -- the right to work as a recruiter, while the Ohio State transitions into a new coaching staff. The current staff will be coaching The Ohio State for its bowl game, while the new hire gets to work on recruiting separately. No having to wait after the bowl game -- as the case is with all other teams.
Utterly ridiculous.
The Ohio State had previously been charged by the NCAA with the infamous "failure to monitor" allegation, just last month. Four months ago, they met with the NCAA COI over allegations of improper benefits within the football program involving a booster. The improper benefits first stemmed from an investigation last year, that resulted in a number of players sanctioned, most notably Terrelle Pryor. However, at the time The Ohio State had appealed to the NCAA to put off player suspensions until the 2011 season. It turned out the scandal was much worse than originally thought, and Terrelle Pryor left college to play in the NFL, without having to serve any penalties -- it made the NCAA look like fools.
During the last decade, The Ohio State has recorded over 400 (mostly) secondary violations, with a handful of major violations. Despite all that, they had never been charged with a lack of institutional control or alleged to have failed to monitor enforcement of NCAA rules...until now. Which makes it more perplexing why they're granting The Ohio State an extra benefit -- a situation completely of their own making by their own hiring / firing decisions.
So what does this tell us? The NCAA plays favorites, even when it's contemplating handing down sanctions against their favorite teams, and made out to look like idiots.
Someone needs to investigate the NCAA's corruption -- it is so blatantly biased, it is nothing but a fat joke.
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