OK gang, been a rocking week. Let’s finish the drill and remember Friday’s mailbag.
From the “Talks too much” studios, let’s mess around and get a triple-double.
Big day in Miami
OK, unless Don Johnson and the black guy strike up a “Miami Vice” rerun or Dan Marino decides to give it one more go, it’s hard to see the folks in South Florida having a better day than Wednesday. Let’s review:
– As the college football world waited for the 400-pound hammer of NCAA violations to drop on the Hurricanes football program for a laundry list of violations that ranged from improper contact to allegedly hooking players up with cash and ladies and what not, the worm completely turned. The NCAA admitted to several mistakes in collecting the information, even possibly damaging the legal process against Nevin Shapiro by using his attorney to ask NCAA-specific questions in depositions.
And while no one is debating whether Miami did a lot of the stuff claimed, here’s what NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a conference call Wednesday: “We have no interest in pursuing a case based on information garnered through inappropriate behavior. That’s not what we stand for. …We have a great amount of evidence compiled and only some a portion of it is a result of this conduct.”