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Tainted Glory - Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
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Tainted Glory - Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
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In 1997, Dave Ridpath walked onto the campus of Marshall University
as a sports-loving athletic administrator with a career on the
rise. Less than five years later, Ridpath's quest to reform one of
the most corrupt athletic departments in college sports, while
simultaneously standing up to the behemoth governing body that is
the NCAA, had all but destroyed that career. While serving as
assistant athletic director for compliance and student services at
Marshall University from 1997 through 2001, Ridpath unearthed
violations of several NCAA rules. These violations included overt
academic fraud and impermissible, booster-devised employment for
members of the Marshall University football team-a team had taken
the nation by storm because of its incredible success on the field.
Ridpath now chronicles his experiences through this trying time in
Tainted Glory: Marshall University, the NCAA, and One Man's Fight
for Justice. Instead of being hailed as a conquering hero
determined to clean up an outlaw program, Ridpath had the tables
turned on him. He found himself out of a job when Marshall
University and the NCAA determined that the path of least
resistance would be to remove him rather than address the issues
head-on. With this action, they hoped to avoid damaging the
university, the athletic department, and the NCAA overall. This
story is about more than the NCAA or Marshall University. It is
about the state of the business of intercollegiate athletics told
by someone on the inside who lived it-the good and the bad.
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