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With NCAA enforcement on its last legs, Congress seeks to place limits on investigations

NEW ORLEANS — Take a good look at NCAA enforcement as Final Four week begins. This may be its last stand.  

Big Brother’s oversight can’t endure because it almost assuredly won’t. Part of what’s being evaluated at the ongoing NCAA Transformation Committee meetings is an evaluation of the laborious, unfair enforcement process. At least that’s the way it is perceived to a large swath of the membership who’ve had enough.

Congress certainly agrees. On Tuesday, the NCAA Accountability Act of 2021 was released. The bipartisan bill would limit investigations to eight months and cut the statute of limitations from four years to two years.

Even if the bill fails, there is still a real possibility the schools themselves take over the process by the end of the summer. Perhaps the divisions (I, II, III) have different sets of rules. Perhaps the conferences police themselves.

The hope is the process gets…

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