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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Auburn hires Pearl within months of the end of his 3-year sanction for lying about illegal recruiting practices. So a coach who has been confirmed to have been unethical now gets to make a couple of million a year working with college student-athletes.
Furthermore, I doubt that an official who was found to be unethical by the NCAA would ever get a second chance.
Just another reason to root against the SEC.
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Maybe the NCAA wouldn't give a guy a second chance, but the NBA didn't hesitate in doing just that.
Don Vaden, a former NBA referee and the league's current coordinator of officials, has replaced Bernie Fryer as director of officials, league sources said Friday.
Vaden was among eight (8) referees charged with tax evasion in 1998 for downgrading first-grade plane tickets and not reporting the refunded money. He was found guilty and served six months' of home confinement and two years of probation.
This was a crime of judgment and this is a high-profile appointment where perception matters. Simply put, the NBA has named a proven tax cheat to head up its group of supposedly impartial referees
The whole thing sounds totally unbelievable. And yet, sadly, it's also totally believable at the same time.