Head of the NCAA Has A Nice Rap Sheet For Himself

USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer looked into the previous positions NCAA President Mark Emmert has held before he took the big job in 2010. And boy, was he busy:

• In 1993, Montana State was found guilty of "Lack of Institutional Control." Emmert was a part of senior management at the time.
• A 2005 investigation of Emmert's 1995-99 tenure as University of Connecticut chancellor showed he was aware of "six key issues" regarding on-campus construction projects. Besides numerous fire and safety codes, the project was as much as $100m over-budget. Emmert had left to become chancellor of LSU in 2000.
• During his 2000-2004 tenure at LSU, there was an academic fraud scandal when an instructor and a grad assistant alleged plagiarism for athletes and un-enrolled students taking notes for sleeping football players. The Emmert-led investigation found only small violations, and the NCAA agreed with LSU's self-imposed two-scholarship punishment. But a third staffer came forward (after the other two claimed they lost their jobs for whistle-blowing) and said violations were worse, including changed grades and papers being written for the football players. Emmert also made sure coach Nick Saban became the highest-paid coach nationally, and Emmert himself was the highest-paid chancellor with some of his salary coming from the Tigers Athletic Foundation.
• Emmert left for his alma mater Washington before the third LSU accuser came forward, and there he became the highest-paid college president. He also used taxpayer funds to build a football stadium there.

Accoring to tax records, Emmert is currently paid $1.6m as NCAA president. Read Schrotenboer's article at USA Today.
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