Riddle Me This re: Barney/Leo

[messageboardsuperhero]

According to the UM response to the NOA, Barney is a criminal mastermind, cheating and paying prospects behind everyone's back- and Leo is lying about everything. How are these circumstances even possible? The two are mutually exclusive.

1. If you admit Barney was a rouge assistant paying recruits and coordinating with boosters, then are you not by extension assigning credibility to Leo's testimony?

2. And if your story is that Leo is not to be trusted and throwing out false accusations, then why are you firing a seemingly innocent coach while throwing him to the wolves?

The logic is totally ***-backwards. I can't believe that nobody has called them out on it.

 

[engie]

You make a great point.

All I can come up with is that they aren't attempting to protect Barney by disputing Leo's account -- they are attempting to protect the booster. Regardless, all of the different conflicting info in there is enough to make your head spin. The COI is going to read through that -- and on about the 3rd batch of conflicting info -- just decide OM is guilty on all of it and hit them harder for for the attempt. JMO.

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

You make a great point.

All I can come up with is that they aren't attempting to protect Barney by disputing Leo's account -- they are attempting to protect the booster. Regardless, all of the different conflicting info in there is enough to make your head spin. The COI is going to read through that -- and on about the 3rd batch of conflicting info -- just decide OM is guilty on all of it and hit them harder for for the attempt. JMO.

Protecting the same boosters that they just disassociated and admitted had improper contact with prospects (thus lending more credibility to Leo Lewis)? Obviously you don't actually think that, but I'm just legitimately trying to make some kind of sense of what exactly their version of the events is... But the whole story is a convoluted mess.

It seems like the strategy is to throw a bunch of accusations at the wall at other parties- trying to put the blame on anyone they can (outside of Freeze and the program at large), regardless of how logically/sensibly the story actually flows.

 

[Drebin]

Absolutely they are still protecting the boosters. Even the ones they've disassociated. If they weren't, their names wouldn't have been redacted.

What kind of world do those mental midgets live in where they will fight to protect the name of a booster, but will out the identity of a student athlete in the same document?

 

[bulldognation]

The kind of world they live in?
They're protecting the golden goose. Without those boosters and their bagmen, there's no way they would be relevant or recover from the *** beating the NCAA is about to deal them.

 

[Junction John]

Duck, dive, dodge, distract, delay, dodge... It's been their strategy from the beginning.

Anything they can do to distract someone from the real issues is a win for them.
Any charge they can dodge is a win for them.
Any time by which they can delay the outcome gets them further into next football/recruiting season, softens everyone's memory on it all, makes people care less about it, etc. In other words, it's a win for them.

The opposite of this strategy is to stand up and admit you sinned, apologize for your actions, and take your punishment like a man... Which is obviously outside the realm of possibility with this bunch.

It seems like the strategy is to throw a bunch of accusations at the wall at other parties- trying to put the blame on anyone they can (outside of Freeze and the program at large), regardless of how logically/sensibly the story actually flows.