Why is the FBI trying to enforce NCAA rules? | New York Post

Why is the FBI trying to enforce NCAA rules? | New York Post
"When exactly did the FBI decide that NCAA regulations were the law of the land? 
When did it conclude that, in addition to hunting down terrorists and investigating insider trading, its mandate also included protecting amateurism in college sports?
For years, athletic-shoe companies like Nike and Adidas paid coaches to have their team wear their brand of sneaker.
Were coaches like Rick Pitino, John Thompson and Jim Valvano being bribed by the shoe company representatives?
You certainly could frame it that way.
But nobody did.
Neither law enforcement nor the NCAA ever protested.
In 2006 — to pick just one among the many, many NCAA scandals over the years — two less-than-reputable agents gave the family of the University of Southern California’s star running back, Reggie Bush, gifts and benefits, including the free use of a house, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They did so in the expectation that Bush would sign with them when he decided to turn pro. (He didn’t.)
Although the university was severely punished by the NCAA, the FBI chose not to look into the matter. 
Why would it? 
Giving a star athlete’s family the use of a house may be unseemly, and it may violate NCAA’s rules regarding amateurism, but it doesn’t violate the laws of the United States.
Not even close.
And yet on Tuesday, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York — that was Preet Bharara’s old jurisdiction, before the president fired him — announced with great fanfare that it had cracked a college basketball bribery scandal..."
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