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NCAA should have folded long ago.(College Football)(National Collegiate Athletic Association)

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| November 01, 2004 | Hayes, Matt | COPYRIGHT 2004 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

So this is how the NCAA works, huh? Intimidate, insinuate, debilitate and, finally, exonerate. For an organization so deep in dysfunction and double talk, even this is hard to believe. Let's recap, shall we?

1) College football coach bets in an NCAA basketball tournament pool with friends after specifically being told by his university it's OK for him to do it.

2) The NCAA investigates, and the president of college sports' governing body publicly states that if he were president of said university, he would take "personnel action" against said coach.

3) Days later, said coach is fired.

4) A year and a half later, the NCAA says, oops, ...

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