For a couple months now Florida St. has ducked and bobbed to avoid releasing details of a NCAA investigation into academic cheating which involved up to 60 scholarship athletes. The NCAA’s Notice of Allegations remains under seal as FSU claims that it is cooperating with the NCAA’s on-going investigation.
Media outlets in Florida have gone to court to pry the document loose under the state’s open records law, but a quicker path to sunshine lies up I-85. ACC Commissioner John Swofford could announce that the conference will sanction the school unless it releases the document. FSU’s conduct is an embarrassment to the entire conference. Other schools routinely release such NCAA allegations and deal with the consequences. FSU administration even pledged to be totally forthcoming about such matters in the aftermath the Adrian McPherson gambling scandal several years ago.
If Noles want to act this way it is up to Swofford to lay down the law. Unless he wants to be mistaken for the commish of the SEC.
