It was augured straight down into the earth. Deliberately so.


When politely queried, he took exception with typical counselor client-attorney ya da ya da and that was that. So, it was swept under the carpet and has now dissolved into nothingness. Poof!


If it ever comes to light again, should the NCAA be forced to open up its files under a discovery motion, Savvy, Jenkins and key BoF/T members will be long gone.


The only words I can summon up to describe institutional and individual moral decay that now permeates the upper reaches of 46556 -- repugnant, self serving, total, abject . . .


Sadly, it didn't start then and there, as ND's leadership cadre moral putrefaction began long ago, when Monk let ND's AA student body percentage (a Ned and Ted goal since the 60s) wither from ~6% to under 1% in less than 9 years. No one noticed save for AA students (see LaPhonso Eliis's complaints about ND's atmosphere as the canary in the mineshaft). When queried about this decline at a mid 90s reunion, the old hubba dubba was the reply. It took a letter to the SBT and some well targeted whale lobbying to call this out and get it fixed.


Before this, we saw


-- the wrestling scholarship endowment get pinched by the collars and admin types withering campaign vs the deceased donee's wife to turn it loose so ND didn't have to dig deeply to support Title 9 mandates.

-- the 2007 University CLub demo with Monk's explicit backing -- the lesson here being stay a whale or have you donation razed and trash heaped.


Monk got his in 04 but that's a story for another day.


To continue with the rotting of ND:


-- alums and students being mauled by gameday alcohol police so much so that NDN RH threatened them with a PR and legal campaigns to address the situation; in this instance when warned via RH, they listened and Blue Ribbon commissioned the issue and started shit-canning folks and toning down their dumb-assery. Please note they were protecting ND's revenue stream and not the students and alums. Several private apologies were made to the assaulted.


- Student bucketed to death in a strong TS force winds -- unremarkable. The family should have sued ND's ass off. No one, let me repeat no one suffered any consequences appropriate to their malfeasance and lack of in loco parentis.


- 2012's and 2013's Wins vacated due to institutional failures to maintain student-athlete academic integrity; not only does the HC say he bears no accountability but the ND's president says much same (in a whiny screed that will become along with the punishment his SCARLET LETTER legacy) when the NCAA BOHICA's him and the school.


- ND has nada to say re USAG scandal. Another check in the unremarkable column, but this time Jenkins and his BoF/T cronies own it.

Found in the footnotes of the NCAA decision to argue against the penalty publicly is the most shocking thing I’ve seen from ND in some time.

Both that they thought we were all idiots and they could get away with it, and the fact that they were right about their fans and alumni for the most part.

And that has upset the applecart of what should be right and wrong - at least from a right and wrong standpoint.

Forbidden fruit. What forbidden fruit?

on, The Admin didn't want to be paying off his contract, so they let him stay on ND's gravy train salary until he got a better offer well after Monk was shit-canned. They were in full brand polishing mode by the point in time.