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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 612514" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>The government's argument in the Gatto case was that providing a benefit to an athlete that made the athlete ineligible to compete without informing the school was criminal fraud. In my opinion, an even stronger argument could be made against Jim Tressel of Ohio State. He knowingly signed affidavits asserting that he didn't know of any violations when it was later proven that he did know of violations.</p><p></p><p>I haven't seen the new attestation documents. I don't believe that federal prosecutors are going to look at every single one of them to see if there is a mistake and then try to prosecute. However, there is a chance that if an athletic director signs an overreaching affidavit and that program is brought into the national spotlight that a federal prosecutor could take an interest. If something causes public outrage against that program, then a technicality in the affidavit could be used to provide a fall guy for the public. If the NCAA is asking the athletic directors to sign a form saying that there are NO violations at their school, and the FBI/prosecutors are treating NCAA violations as crimes, then the athletic directors are in a tenuous spot. Gatto was convicted. I said when his indictment was first posted that I didn't see any actual underlying fraud. If I were involved with the NCAA, I would be very concerned about attesting to anything that I could not be 100% certain to be the absolute truth. I wouldn't sign anything that made blanket statements of things beyond my direct control. I would probably even be hesitant to sign something that read "to the best of my knowledge".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 612514, member: 2426"] The government's argument in the Gatto case was that providing a benefit to an athlete that made the athlete ineligible to compete without informing the school was criminal fraud. In my opinion, an even stronger argument could be made against Jim Tressel of Ohio State. He knowingly signed affidavits asserting that he didn't know of any violations when it was later proven that he did know of violations. I haven't seen the new attestation documents. I don't believe that federal prosecutors are going to look at every single one of them to see if there is a mistake and then try to prosecute. However, there is a chance that if an athletic director signs an overreaching affidavit and that program is brought into the national spotlight that a federal prosecutor could take an interest. If something causes public outrage against that program, then a technicality in the affidavit could be used to provide a fall guy for the public. If the NCAA is asking the athletic directors to sign a form saying that there are NO violations at their school, and the FBI/prosecutors are treating NCAA violations as crimes, then the athletic directors are in a tenuous spot. Gatto was convicted. I said when his indictment was first posted that I didn't see any actual underlying fraud. If I were involved with the NCAA, I would be very concerned about attesting to anything that I could not be 100% certain to be the absolute truth. I wouldn't sign anything that made blanket statements of things beyond my direct control. I would probably even be hesitant to sign something that read "to the best of my knowledge". [/QUOTE]
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