Reading the NCAA Report: Part III excerpt

More (very biased) comments on the NCAA Report on SU athletics. This excerpt is from a subsection called, "The Part-Time Tutor and a Representative of the Institution’s Athletic Interests"

P5. “BOTH THE INSTITUTION AND THE HEAD BASKETBALL COACH DESCRIBED IN GREAT DETAIL THAT THE REPRESENTATIVE DID NOT BEAR MANY OF THE TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INSTITUTION'S ATHLETICS INTEREST. THE INSTITUTION, HOWEVER, ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE REPRESENTATIVE MET THE DEFINITION OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INSTITUTION'S ATHLETICS INTEREST AND UNDER THE FACTS OF THIS CASE, THE REPRESENTATIVE WAS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INSTITUTION'S ATHLETICS INTERESTS.”

For some reason, possibly legal, the report doesn’t list anyone by name. Boeheim is “The Head Basketball Coach.” Jeff Cornish, the guy at the Oneida YMCA who allegedly gave out 21 checks to Syracuse athletes, is “A Representative of the Institution’s Athletic Interests.” Hank Leo, the guy who hired him at the Y and who originally introduced him to Boeheim, is “The Part-Time Tutor.” Even Syracuse University is “The Institution.” You can see from this excerpt the hilarious effect this has on the prose of the report. It’s also wild that some random dude at the Oneida Y would be a representative of SU’s athletic interests, but apparently, even though Boeheim and SU said he isn’t a typical representative of an institution’s athletic interests, he meets the NCAA’s definition. Please don’t ask me to go find that definition on the NCAA’s website. I’d love to read some reporting that explains it, such as in the NY Times’s mildly decent reporting on Cornish and Leo, but I have  yet to come across anything that even attempts to explain the NCAA rules. The NY Times was too busy describing a YMCA as a "haven" for SU athletes that “served as an arm of Syracuse’s elaborate system of violating the rules governing college sports.” Really? For once, the comment section on this article actually made me feel better; a few of them seized on the absurdity in all of this. Yes, the (later revoked) credits athletes received for a nonexistent YMCA internship is not good, though the report acknowledges that many athletes did actually do legitimate community service through the Y. But does God forbid kids from getting money for working Y events, being treated to fast food meals, and accepting car rides? Because the NCAA sure does.