Re: NBC News: Several NCAA Assistant Coaches Arrested by FBI
I know you see things thru orange and blue glasses, and yes this is a corruption case, but NO other coach has refused to cooperate.
And again, without knowing the nature of those schools internal investigations, you can’t really make that comparison. What is the nature of the questions being asked? Until you can answer that question, you can’t make that comparison.
If you or I were to tell our employers that we would not cooperate with an internal investigation of any kind much less a FBI/DOJ investigation, we'd be fired on the spot.
This is an interesting situation. On the one hand you have a federal investigation going on. Pearl has a personal attorney and the advice of his attorney is that he doesn't speak to anyone on this matter until the FBI investigation is done.
On the other hand, Auburn is doing an internal investigation more geared toward NCAA bylaws and such. So they want Pearl and his assistants to talk to them on the matter. If you're in Pearl's position, do you listen to the advice of your attorney or do you obey the wishes of your employer?
What needs to happen here is for Auburn to cool its jets a little. Ultimatums and leaking stuff to the press is more of a petty power contest than it is anything designed to do what's best for Auburn. Pearl will talk eventually, and it is understandable why an attorney would tell his client not to say anything until the feds are done.
Auburn has let this go on far too long without addressing this at all. Your own university president said if he didn't cooperate he'd fire him. What do we have? Crickets so far.
Pearl and Leath are both stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. As the President of the university, he needs as much information as he can get to make an informed decision after the Person debacle, and he expects his employees to help him in the investigation. Pearl has been informed by his lawyers not to talk possibly because by talking he might be interfering with an FBI investigation, even if unaware of what Person was doing.
All we can do is wait and see how things play out. The sad part is the longer we wait the more rumors that will be floated.
I do applaud Auburn for hiring what appears to be very good choice for AD. They have needed an outside voice for years as Alabama did prior to hiring Byrne. Maybe this will break up the Pat Dye gang and Lowder along with Raine can quit dictating what the Athletic department does and doesn't do..
This has Rich McGlynn written all over it, not Dye and his cronies.
