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A Comparative Analysis of

The Standards that Robert Knight Violated

(That Myles Brand Used to “Justify”

Ending Robert Knight’s Coaching Career)

vs.

The Standards That Myles Brand Violated

(In Ending the Young Christian Student’s Academic Career)

The NCAA’s Unusual Presidential Selection Procedure

The NCAA Presidential selection procedure produced Myles Brand (Jewish) as the new NCAA President.

Was the Outcome of the NCAA Presidential Search Known Before It Began?

In January 2002, as soon as the NCAA announced that NCAA President Cedric Dempsey (religion unknown) was “retiring,” a sportswriter named Mike Fish (religion unknown) made two statements:

Dempsey was forced out as NCAA President, and

The NCAA wanted to hire a “college president” for the job.

(more)

The NCAA Search Committee and Baker-Parker

The NCAA created a four member Presidential Search Committee with:

Robert Lawless (chairman, President of University of Tulsa, religion unknown),

Robert Hememway (Chancellor of the University of Kansas, religion unknown),

Patricia Cormier (President, Longwood College, religion unknown),

Bette Landman (President, Arcadia University, religion unknown).

The NCAA Presidential Search Committee then hired Baker-Parker and Associates as the executive search firm to do the search.

Indiana University President Myles Brand, the beneficiary of the Baker-Parker NCAA search procedure, had a professional relationship with Baker- Parker…Baker-Parker had filled positions at Indiana University.

Patricia Cormier owed her job as President of Longwood College to Baker-Parker.

When the NCAA later realized they had left out a Black, they added one to the Search Committee:

Milton Gordon (President, California State University—Fullerton, religion unknown)

Bette Landman was a personal friend of Myles Brand for reasons including their mutual involvement in the American Council on Education.

Other members of the search committee may have had personal or professional relationships with Myles Brand.

Patricia Cormier was a signatory of the American Jewish Committee’s Jewish Supremacist Statement. (more)

Baker-Parker then engaged in an extensive, unusual search procedure.

Private Commercial Interests Were Given A Big Voice In ‘The Search’

Although the NCAA and Myles Brand lament the “commercialization” of college football and basketball, the NCAA and Baker-Parker went to private commercial interests for “nominations” for NCAA President. Baker-Parker directly solicited NCAA President nominations from:

Top executives at 50 or more sports-related companies such as Nike, Reebok, and Converse,

Top executives at Fortune 200 companies, and

Females listed in Fortune Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business.” (Purposeful gender discrimination.)

Purposeful Racial and Gender Discrimination Played A Role In the Search

Baker-Parker purposefully racially discriminated by purposefully soliciting NCAA Presidential nominations from:

The presidents of “more than 90” historically Black colleges, whether they were NCAA members or not, and

Persons listed in Fortune Magazine’s “Most Powerful Black Executives.”

In addition, the NCAA Presidential position was advertised in a demographically rigged list of publications that catered to minorities and females including Hispanic Outlook, Black Issues in Higher Education, and Women in Higher Education.

Certain Political Lobbying Groups and Special Interest Groups Were Invited to Nominate the NCAA President

Baker-Parker invited “over 40” Special Interest Groups to nominate the new NCAA President, including:

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),

The Motion Picture Association of America, and

The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

Unexpected Groups Were Specifically Invited to Nominate the NCAA President

Upon information and belief, Baker-Parker solicited NCAA Presidential nominations from some unlikely organizations:

Central Institute for the Deaf

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Industrial Technology Institute

Institute of Paper Science and Technology

Michigan Virtual Automotive College

New School for Social Research

Rhode Island School of Design

Some Colleges May Have Been More Equal Than Others in the NCAA Search

Apparently, certain NCAA member schools were directly solicited for NCAA Presidential nominations while others had a different level of input.

An unusual list of “more than 100” colleges and universities were invited to nominate NCAA President Candidates. Only colleges and universities that were customers of the private firm Baker-Parker and Associates were on this list. A minority of the schools were NCAA Division I-A such as:

Indiana University

The University of Illinois

The University of Iowa

The University of Michigan

The University of Minnesota

Northwestern University

The Ohio State University

Others schools on the special list who were invited to nominate a candidate for NCAA President may have included:

Binghamton University SUNY

Brandeis University (more)

Green Mountain College

Longwood College

James Madison University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Meredith College

Michigan Technological University

Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Rhodes College

Walden University

Walden Institute for Learning and Leadership

Wesleyan University

Second Rate University and College Inputs

Other colleges and universities were not shut out of the Presidential nomination process, but the solicitation of their input appears to be more random and haphazard. Whereas the NCAA and Baker-Parker directly targeted and solicited President nominations from the parties mentioned above…other than the individual conference commissioners, there doesn’t seem to have been an equivalent formal solicitation of nominations from precise and complete lists of NCAA member schools and coaches associations.

The Result: 118 Presidential Nominations

When completed the NCAA/Baker-Parker Presidential Search came up with 118 nominations. The summary statistics are rather bizarre. The NCAA has over one thousand active member schools; in addition, Baker-Parker solicited nominations from other special non-NCAA-member schools. Only 29 of the nominees were affiliated with ‘higher education’ and only 10 of the nominees were affiliated with ‘intercollegiate athletics.” Fully 69 nominees were affiliated with business corporations while the final 10 nominees had government affiliations. Talk about the commercialization of collegiate sports!

Now the Process Becomes Even More Peculiar

It will probably never be known whether the extensive, but unusual, NCAA President nomination procedure was sincere. Maybe the NCAA wanted to simply build bridges with particular groups to generate future support. Maybe the NCAA went through motions to make particular groups think they had a voice in the process. Maybe the desire was to kick up a lot of dust to give the impression a legitimate search was pursued. Who knows?

But, the next aspects of the selection process do seem peculiar indeed.

One would like to think that the extensive Baker-Parker/NCAA search procedure came up with some amazing candidates. And maybe it did. Persons with collegiate sports knowledge would probably have debated extensively over the relative merits of the different candidates. One would like to think that there were probably twenty or thirty great candidates. Nevertheless, Baker-Parker and the five member NCAA Presidential Search Committee whittled the 118 names down to only three:

Myles Brand (from the 2.7% Jewish minority),

an unnamed minority individual (probably from the 13% black minority), and

a third unidentified individual (demographic status unknown).

This Is Too Preposterous to be True

Baker-Parker and the NCAA Presidential Search Committee provided the three candidate names to the NCAA 16-member Executive Committee. Baker-Parker and the Search Committee made “no recommendations” regarding the three candidates. The Executive Committee was to make the selection of the new NCAA President from among the three candidates.

The three preposterous suggestions are:

All sixteen Executive Committee members agreed to be ‘locked” incommunicado in a room with no opportunity to do their own due diligence research on the candidates…and with no recommendations from Baker/Parker and the Search Committee.

All sixteen Executive Committee members agreed to make an “on-the-spot” decision.

All sixteen Executive Committee members voted for Myles Brand with none voting for either of the two other candidates.

The Lock-Down

The NCAA Executive Committee consisted of sixteen members: fifteen university/college presidents and one university chancellor. These are not “stupid people.”

Every person with executive experience can recite examples of the surprises and pitfalls of hiring senior executives. Experienced people know that good research and confidential comments from personal contacts often prevent hiring disasters. This is one of the primary “rules” to hiring. (more)

The NCAA Presidency is a high profile position with a five-year compensation package that will easily exceed $4,000,000. The NCAA’s revenues are over $1,000,000,000 per year. This is no casual position. Most of the NCAA’s revenues come from television and radio broadcasting rights sold to Jewish controlled media corporations. A 1% swing in the contract price equals $60,000,000 to $100,000,000 in revenues to the NCAA’s member schools. It’s an important position that requires the highest integrity…and confidence that the President is working for the good of the member schools and students.

Supposedly, all sixteen members of the Executive Committee agreed to the ‘lock down’ and renounced their duty to pursue due diligence by doing their own research into the candidates. Plus they had no recommendations from Baker/Parker and the Search Committee. It would probably be difficult to find five experienced executives in the entire United States who would agree before the fact to forego the right to do their own research in such a situation. Supposedly, not just one or two but all sixteen members of the Executive Committee agreed not to research the candidates or check with their own sources of information. The claim that the sixteen Executive Members agreed to such an arrangement simply defies belief.

Supposedly, all sixteen members of the Executive Committee agreed to make an “on-the-spot” decision. None of the candidate names were known before the decision meeting. It would probably be difficult to find five executives in the entire United States who would agree before the fact to make an “on-the-spot” decision in such an important hiring matter. Yet, one is supposed to believe that not just one or two but all sixteen NCAA Executive Committee members agreed to this mandatory condition.

And here’s the most preposterous one of all. Supposedly all sixteen members of the NCAA Executive Committee voted for Myles Brand. What? A nationwide search involving, according to the NCAA, approximately ten thousand contacts…and there’s no candidate other than Myles Brand that can even get a vote from the NCAA Executive Committee?

If the three best candidates went to the Executive Committee and two of the three can’t even get one vote, just think how pathetic the other 115 nominees must have been. This is simply too crazy to believe.

One hypothesis that fits the facts is that the entire search was a sham and that Baker-Parker and the NCAA Presidential Search Committee rigged the rules…only three candidates…no recommendations…no due diligence…on-the-spot decision…and Myles Brand’s name along with two inferior rejects…in order to come up with…and the winner is…Myles Brand.

Curiously, Myles Brand seemed to be positioning for the NCAA Presidency starting a year before the NCAA Presidential Search Announcement. On January 23, 2001, Brand gave a speech before the National Press Club that reads like an acceptance speech for the NCAA Presidency. (speech) Why? (more)

How Will Anyone Know if the NCAA Selection Procedure Was Rigged?

Some say, when there’s an unusual event…follow the money.

Does Castoridae College Hold the Key?

Universities prize having Nobel Prize Winners on their faculties.

Let’s consider imaginary Castoridae College, the home of the Castoridae Colonists. Let’s say Castoridae College has one special faculty member: Buckminster Van Pelt. Van Pelt was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his technological breakthroughs in underwater engineering. Castoridae is known worldwide for its engineering department because of Van Pelt. In addition, Van Pelt is a great fellow, loved by all. Then one chilly day in October, the campus is stunned to learn than Van Pelt has been hired by Poussin University! They discover that the executive search firm of Butcher-Candlestickmaker was the one responsible for inducing Van Pelt to move to PU.

Castoridae College has lost its star Nobel Prize professor! They’re force to expend time, money, and trouble to rebuild their engineering department. They decide to hire an executive search firm to do a nationwide search for a new professor. Into the room struts Jimmy Candlestickmaker offering his search firm’s services.

Question:

Do the Castoridae College Colonists hire and pay a big fee to Butcher-Candlestickmaker to do a search for a new engineering professor for Castoridae College to replace the one Butcher-Candlestickmaker induced away, or

Do the Castoridae College Colonists tie Jimmy Candlestickmaker to a log, roll him down to the river, and push him in?

Does High Tech Enterprises Hold the Key?

Take another hypothetical example. Assume High Tech Enterprises has a great Director of New Product Development: Deimos Phobos. Phobos keeps High Tech on the “cutting edge.”

One day, Asaph Hall, the President of High Tech, is shocked to learn Phobos has been hired by Extreme Tech. Hall learns the search firm Butcher-Candlestickmaker conducted a nationwide search for Extreme Tech and realized that Phobos was the best in the country.

High Tech Enterprises is forced to find a replacement for Phobos. Jimmy Candlestickmaker arrives at High Tech and offers his executive search services.

Question:

Does the President of High Tech say, “Thank you for coming, Jimmy. I’m aware of the fine nationwide search you did for Extreme Tech that resulted in their hiring Phobos away from us. I’d be glad to pay your firm a big fee for one of your second-rate candidates that Extreme Tech rejected. I realize that if you had found a better candidate than Phobos for Extreme Tech, that candidate would have gotten the job and we’d still have Phobos. But, we want to be a second rate company and what better way than to hire your firm in order to get one of your rejects.” Or,

Does the President of High Tech put Jimmy on a rocket and launch him to Mars?

Does This Hypothetical Scenario Apply?

[You may want to reread this now, (click here).]

The NCAA sends investigators to each of the Indiana University Trustees. The NCAA investigators do not tape record their interviews with each of the Trustees because they feel each of the Trustees appears nervous. The NCAA investigators provide each Trustee with a written memorandum stating certain alleged facts. Each Trustee refuses to sign the memorandum “denying that he/she made the statements attributed to him/her by the enforcement staff.”

The NCAA investigators find that the Indiana University Trustees agreed to hire Baker-Parker to find a new President for Indiana University…to replace Myles Brand who left the position to become NCAA President. The Trustees do this despite the fact Baker-Parker had just hired Myles Brand away from Indiana University and forced the university to spend time, effort, and treasure to fill his vacancy. The investigators find that the Trustees are paying Baker-Parker a fee estimated to be $200,000 to $400,000 for their services in replacing Myles Brand who Baker-Parker “transported” to the NCAA.

The NCAA investigators find that Myles Brand as President of Indiana University had a previous professional relationship with Baker-Parker.

The NCAA investigators learn that one of the NCAA Presidential Search Committee members had a conflict of interest involving Baker-Parker…she owed her job to them.

The NCAA investigators learn that Myles Brand and certain Indiana University Trustees had strong professional and personal relationships.

The NCAA investigators learn that Myles Brand and the Indiana University Trustees have previously been involved in alleged illegal activities involving secret Trustee meetings that violated Indiana State Law. They learn outraged citizens brought a suit against them for this reason. (more)

[It’s a shame there was never a referendum of Indiana citizens and Indiana University students, employees, and alumni to determine whether Myles Brand should have been fired from his position as Indiana University President.]

The NCAA investigators learn Myles Brand may have violated Federal Law, State Law, and University Policy when he condoned anti-Christian religious discrimination at Indiana University against an Innocent Christian Young Lady.

The NCAA investigators learn Myles Brand signed a Jewish Supremacist Statement that created a hostile environment at Indiana University.

The NCAA investigators discover telephone calls were placed between and among Myles Brand, Baker-Parker, NCAA officials, and the Indiana University Trustees around the time Brand was being considered for the NCAA position and around the time Indiana University hired Baker-Parker for its Brand-replacement search. Ditto for in-person meetings.

The NCAA investigators find that the NCAA Executive Committee members agreed to be limited to considering only the three candidates for NCAA President that were to be presented to them by Baker-Parker and the five person Presidential Search Committee.

The NCAA investigators find that the NCAA Executive Committee members not only failed to do personal due diligence when selecting Myles Brand as the new NCAA President, but agreed in advance not to do due diligence.

The NCAA investigators find that the NCAA Executive Committee members agreed to make a decision “on-the-spot” at the time they were informed of the only three candidates available.

The NCAA investigators find that the other two candidates presented to them by Baker-Parker and the five person Presidential Search Committee were so poor that neither of them could muster a single vote from the NCAA Executive Committee members.

Question:

Does the NCAA state: “ ‘It is the expectation of the NCAA that all NCAA officials and University Trustees and Presidents will deport themselves with honesty and integrity at all times so that intercollegiate athletics as a whole, their institutions and they, as individuals, shall represent the honor and dignity of fair play and the generally recognized high standards associated with wholesome competitive sports.’ ”

Or, does the NCAA state: “The NCAA, Baker-Parker, certain NCAA officials, Myles Brand, and the Indiana University Trustees ‘failed to deport themselves in accordance with the generally recognized high standards of honesty normally associated with the conduct and administration of intercollegiate athletics and violated the provisions of ethical conduct by their knowing involvement in’ an apparent $200,000+ financial payoff for placing Myles Brand in the NCAA Presidency.”

Or, does the NCAA state: “Baker-Parker, Myles Brand, and the Indiana University Trustees all engaged in conversations during the period Myles Brand was being considered for the NCAA Presidency and again when the Indiana University Trustees hired Baker-Parker for the replace-Myles-Brand Search. ‘These are broad, general conversations, and under the circumstances, they are susceptible of being interpreted as promising improper inducements. By engaging in such ambiguous conversations and apparent conflicts, the parties take the risk that where, as here, a great appearance of impropriety did, in fact, subsequently appear’ after Myles Brand was hired by the NCAA, ‘the NCAA is justified in interpreting the conversations as promising improper inducements to the parties involved.’ ”

Or, does the NCAA state: “The NCAA places great weight on circumstantial evidence and Napoleonic “Guilty until Proven Innocent” Code. The facts are clear that the Indiana University Trustees have agree to pay Baker-Parker an amount estimated at $200,000 to $400,000. The facts are equally clear that Myles Brand has had a long-term relationship with these same Trustees and that this relationship has resulted in past allegations of misconduct. The facts are clear that the parties engaged in a variety of conversations during the period when Myles Brand was actively a candidate for the NCAA Presidency and during the period when the Indiana University Trustees hired Baker-Parker for the replace-Myles-Brand search. On the basis of this information, the findings against Myles Brand, the Indiana University Trustees, Baker-Parker and the NCAA officials that they engaged in a series of kick-backs and bribes ‘is not clearly contrary to the evidence, and is affirmed.’ ”

Or, does the NCAA state: “One standard for the coaches and students, a different standard for Myles Brand, NCAA officials, and University Trustees and Presidents.”

Big Talk and Big Action When the NCAA Targets Coaches and Poor Blacks

NCAA officers constantly speak of high standards…leadership…integrity… sportsmanship…fairness…ethics…honesty…honor…dignity…and fair play. But, when the NCAA officers selected the NCAA’s new President, they endorsed racial discrimination…corporate commercial interests…and unmerited preferences for select special interest groups and particular colleges and universities.

If the NCAA had made special efforts to approach historically Christian Colleges or Christian special interest groups, or men’s groups, or White groups, then the howls of discrimination and “hater…hater…hater…hater” would have risen. Why can’t the NCAA officials conduct their own activities in character with standards of equality, integrity, fair play, and justice? Are the NCAA Executive Committee members frauds, race-traitors, bigots, racists or what?

If the events and circumstances surrounding the hiring of Myles Brand as NCAA President had applied to some individual hiring the mother of a basketball player as a cleaning lady…and he got $100 worth of complementary tickets…this would have been a major NCAA infraction with serious sanctions.

Hang your head in shame NCAA! Hang your head in shame. You treat a poor black lady as a criminal for the ‘crime’ of taking a cleaning job…while your NCAA Presidential stench is 1,000 times worse than anything she ever did.

[The poor black lady who saw her life and her son’s life thrown into turmoil can now see with her eyes that it’s the Myles Brands of the world that get the prize.]

The New Crowd has Thrown Out Western Culture Standards

“It is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.” Lord Gordon Hewart

“Abstain from all appearance of evil.” The Holy Bible, First Thessalonians 5: 22.

Here’s the New Crowd’s Evaluation of the NCAA Presidential Selection Process and its Outcome

“The NCAA Presidential Search was done in a very professional manner.” [paraphrase] Myles Brand (more)

“The NCAA spoke loudly with their selection of me.” [paraphrase] Myles Brand (more)

“President-Elect Brand in every way continues the high standards of leadership and integrity that have characterized the first three executive directors or presidents of the NCAA.” [Pathetic if true.] Robert Lawless, Chairman of the NCAA Executive Committee. (more)

The NCAA Presidential Search…A Most Astounding Spectacle

Most organizations select as their leaders individuals who are famous for their successes and positive achievements…their honesty and integrity…it’s amazingly remarkable that an organization such as the NCAA…which proclaims the virtues of fair play and achievement and sportsmanship…would select a person as President who’s greatest claim to fame and only source of renown is just one thing: that he’s the person who unjustly destroyed the Indiana University coaching career of one of the most illustrious coaches in the history of collegiate athletics.

Myles Brand also destroyed the Christian Young Lady’s academic career. (more)

And, at the time of his selection by the NCAA Executive Committee, Myles Brand was probably the only “sitting” President of a major University whose student newspaper had called for his “punishment” for his deceitful conduct that reflected Brand’s personal lack of integrity, honesty, leadership, and trustworthiness. They are known by their fruits…and Brand’s fruits are rotten. Of all the people in the world, why did the NCAA select Myles Brand? (more)