Paul Dee, who handed down USC sanctions, cited in Miami scandal

Shapiro said he was enabled by the university, allowed to run the entire Miami team out of tunnel and onto the field -- twice -- and once honored on the field by former athletic director Paul Dee during a game. The same Paul Dee who wagged a finger at USC as the chairman of the NCAA’s committee on infractions in 2010, chiding the Reggie Bush/O.J. Mayo scandal as a systematic failure. “High-profile players demand high-profile compliance,” Dee said while announcing USC’s sanctions. Now Shapiro says Miami’s athletic compliance -- Dee’s own backyard while Shapiro was operating -- suffered one catastrophic oversight after another.

He’s the guy who sat in judgment of USC when the program was burned to the ground, then scolded the school for letting it happen. “High profile players demand high-profile compliance,” Dee said 14 months ago in reference to Reggie Bush. There have been few more hypocritical words spoken in the history of NCAA enforcement.

“Dee, Miami’s AD during most of the period covering Shapiro’s allegations, is retired and no longer under NCAA jurisdiction. Still, it seems only fair he should spend a day at USC’s Heritage Hall wearing a sandwich board with the word “Hypocrite.” See if this sounds familiar: “We didn’t have any suspicion that he was doing anything like this.” He didn’t do anything to cause concern.” I’m fairly certain I heard Pete Carroll say something to that effect, repeatedly, about Bush’s time at USC. He insisted there’s no way he or anyone else at the school could have known that Bush’s parents were living the high life in San Diego -- a defense Dee and his committee sharply rebuked.