Alabama case spotlights Emmert

Just to get it out in the open. Its somewhat LSU related.

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NCAA President Mark Emmert has a special relationship with Alabama head football coach Nick Saban.

As chancellor at LSU from 1999 to 2004, Emmert hired Saban as his football coach and eventually helped make him the highest-paid coach in the nation at $2.3 million.

"Chancellor Emmert is absolutely the best boss I've ever had," Saban said at LSU in 2004. "He's the most significant reason I was interested in the job. Never once has he disappointed me."

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This is going to get really ridiculous very soon. Auburn's big bro won't even so much as sniff any sanctions from any of this.

No doubt the NCAA sucks at nearly everything, but kudos to them for at least SAYING this type of thing, which is far more than we can expect from our own damn conference office:

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"If an enforcement staff member or leadership, Committee on Infractions member or even the association president has any connection with a member school under investigation, that person is immediately recused from the case and has absolutely no role with either investigating or deciding penalties for that infractions case," NCAA spokeswoman Emily Potter told USA TODAY Sports in a statement.

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