The next time you hear that a football coach “failed to cooperate” with the NCAA during an investigation just remember that the NCAA appears to be expect more from a search than the FBI.
A recent, real-life example of the NCAA’s outrageous investigative methods and what coaches are forced to endure to avoid being sanctioned by the NCAA for “failure to cooperate” unless they acquiesce to these overtly invasive intimidation tactics. pic.twitter.com/mK3XtkdXgP
— Tom Mars (@TomMarsLaw) February 8, 2024
In connection with this same records request, the NCAA was given access to more that 6,100 of the coach’s emails - every email he had sent or received for the past 20 months regardless of their relevance, except for emails to and from his lawyers.