The Research Foundation of the State University of New York paid for the system to retain an ex-judge to investigate scandals involving the Binghamton University athletic program, Albany’s Times Union reports.
The foundation paid more than $900,000 to the law firm of former state Chief Judge Judith Kaye to probe problems at Binghamton, whose athletic director resigned in October after revelations of possible NCAA recruiting violations and the indictment of a basketball player on drug charges.
A SUNY spokesman said using the unorthodox financing procedure allowed the system to begin the probe quickly, rather than going through a time-consuming state contracting process, and without using tuition or taxpayer funds.
One Response to SUNY Research Foundation Paid for Binghamton U. Sports Probe
mark900 - February 23, 2010 at 4:25 pm
And the implication is? Lest anyone think this arragnement soehow taints the findings, a few salient points:1 Judy Kaye has a stainless steel reputation. She would not brook any shenanigans.2 The report concludes what anyone with a passing familiarity with the story knows-the basketball progam was crooked. It bent or broke nearly every recrutiment or retention rule in the book. Everyone with responsibility-the president, AD, coach, etc., is guilty.3 With a token exception or two, none of the repsonsible parties has been fired; everyone is still on salary.4 The campus has been torn apart by this scandal. It has hurt the school’s reputation. The school is stuck with a Div. I infrastructure that cost it millions & now can’t use.5 As usual, not a word about the atheletes, who were feted as long as they borught glory to the unversity, then dropped like a ton of bricks when everything collapsed.