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There are at least a couple of reasons the NCAA hasn't sanctioned Baylor at this point.

First of all, there is a process. It takes a while. Without a consent decree (which means agreement from the institution), they have to go through an investigation and several committees. Even with a consent decree, moving without due process could be a problem.

Secondly, in general the NCAA enforces rules that are supposed to have some kind of effect on competitive balance between institutions. Despite a few words in the bylaws about ethical conduct by institutions and individuals, in general the NCAA was never meant to be either a substitute or an add-on to the criminal laws of our country. Sometimes it has stepped into that role. The most well known such case was Penn State/Sandusky et al. In that case, Penn State agreed to everything in a consent decree. Still, after the furor died down a bit, the State of Pennsylvania took the NCAA to court and was more or less on the way towards winning their case that the consent decree wasn't lawful and the NCAA overstepped its jurisdiction - so an agreement was reached that had the NCAA basically back off.

Primarily, the people that should be doing something about the Baylor situation are Baylor University and the federal and Texas court systems. Baylor seems to be doing at least something: the head coach, athletic director, and president are all fired. That's something. I hope they are doing a lot more, but I don't have any connections to Baylor so I don't know.
Of the new stuff, the football ops guy was fired one month into the job, so they acted there. The statement by Kim Mulkey was certainly tone deaf (and stupid), but not exactly a firing offense.


Personally, with regards to the NCAA itself, I am more worried about the UNC case; though again I don't know enough details. Fake courses and fake grades to players definitely undermines the competitive balance, is in the realm of things the NCAA oversees, undermines the whole point of athletics in college, and I haven't heard that UNC has taken the matter overly seriously. [To be fair, it may be that the key part here was "I haven't heard".] Unless UNC itself has done more than I know, I don't like the rumours that the NCAA isn't looking at significant sanctions. 

[CTcard]

There are at least a couple of reasons the NCAA hasn't sanctioned Baylor at this point.

First of all, there is a process. It takes a while. Without a consent decree (which means agreement from the institution), they have to go through an investigation and several committees. Even with a consent decree, moving without due process could be a problem.

Secondly, in general the NCAA enforces rules that are supposed to have some kind of effect on competitive balance between institutions. Despite a few words in the bylaws about ethical conduct by institutions and individuals, in general the NCAA was never meant to be either a substitute or an add-on to the criminal laws of our country. Sometimes it has stepped into that role. The most well known such case was Penn State/Sandusky et al. In that case, Penn State agreed to everything in a consent decree. Still, after the furor died down a bit, the State of Pennsylvania took the NCAA to court and was more or less on the way towards winning their case that the consent decree wasn't lawful and the NCAA overstepped its jurisdiction - so an agreement was reached that had the NCAA basically back off.

Primarily, the people that should be doing something about the Baylor situation are Baylor University and the federal and Texas court systems. Baylor seems to be doing at least something: the head coach, athletic director, and president are all fired. That's something. I hope they are doing a lot more, but I don't have any connections to Baylor so I don't know.
Of the new stuff, the football ops guy was fired one month into the job, so they acted there. The statement by Kim Mulkey was certainly tone deaf (and stupid), but not exactly a firing offense.


Personally, with regards to the NCAA itself, I am more worried about the UNC case; though again I don't know enough details. Fake courses and fake grades to players definitely undermines the competitive balance, is in the realm of things the NCAA oversees, undermines the whole point of athletics in college, and I haven't heard that UNC has taken the matter overly seriously. [To be fair, it may be that the key part here was "I haven't heard".] Unless UNC itself has done more than I know, I don't like the rumours that the NCAA isn't looking at significant sanctions.