We’ve probably all had a little too much fun at the University of Tennessee’s expense the past three weeks regarding the school’s search for a new football coach.
It’s chaos, stupidity, arrogance and ignorance all rolled into one. It’s all been so unbelievably inept that no one would believe it if it weren’t shockingly true. And a school that managed to play football for 120 years before suffering its first eight-loss season deserved better from its administrators.
But having NCAA president Mark Emmert lower the boom on the Volunteers on Wednesday for disorganization and mixed signals is a little like LaVar Ball making fun of helicopter parents, or Al Franken, Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose conducting a seminar on the role of women in the workplace.
In case anyone has forgotten, Emmert has presided over three of the most sensationalized, poorly executed, questionably concluded investigations in NCAA history regarding the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, the booster scandal at Miami and the academic fraud scandal at North Carolina.
Not that Emmert is ever the judge, jury and executioner in such cases, but if he were, he’d make Judge Judy look like Oliver Wendell Holmes.