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Charles Alan Wright.
One of the most distinguished attorneys the southwest has ever known. Successfully argued on behalf of Richard Nixon in several watergate cases, won 10 of his 12 arguments before the Supreme Court (the two he lost were subsequently overturned into his original point of view), literally wrote the playbook for procedure still used today in Federal Court, "Federal Practice and Procedure" which has been referenced over 10,000 times in Federal Court, and was appointed as a visiting professor to Harvard, Yale, Penn, Cambridge, etc.
Who is Charles Wright? Why is this professor of Law at the University of Texas who taught from 1955 until his death in 2000 the subject of my post?
Because Charles Alan Wright also wrote another document, well, not literally. He wrote the NCAA committee on infractions playbook. While his bio states he was only on the committee for ten years and chaired it for five, he is fully engrossed in the NCAA. Nevermind that during the time he chaired the committee and immediately thereafter, the University of Texas' competition in state was virtually wiped clean with the infractions levied against A&M and SMU, what is more important is the relationship between Wright and the NCAA.
Charles Wright has writings and credits in NCAA investigations from the early 1970's through the late 1990's as his health began to falter. That is 20+ years, or if you are keeping score, basically the entire time the NCAA has been levying penalties. Every investigation has his stamp on it. This is a snippet of the detail from his publication list at the UT library regarding the NCAA committee on Infractions -http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlaw/00025/law-00025.html
There are hundreds of more boxes. The guys fingerprints are all over nearly every NCAA investigation from 1970 through 1995.
Additionally, and more importantly and unbelievably, Charles Wright was a football freak. Fanatic does not begin to describe the man. He began an intramural football team and appointed himself coach of the Legal Eagles at Texas. A team that still plays today. He was so serious about the team, he kept records, stats, held tryouts, and could not hold a conversation without discussing his team. He did this for over 30 years and could likely chronicle each of his teams 330 wins. He was so obsessed, the subject became a cornerstone in his obituary. Let that sink in. One of the most successful attorneys to ever argue before the Supreme Court, a man with cornerstone legal arguments that shaped US national policy, and his obituary was centered around a club football team. Word around texas was his obsession with his intramural team was only surpassed by one thing, his obsession with the Texas Longhorn football team. And this guy was THE MAN when it came to NCAA investigations. Does anyone see a conflict here?
The story that will never be told is that in an era of cheating, the one constant in the NCAA infraction world was Charles Wright, Longhorn Professor and Longhorn Fan. And during his tenure as chairman of the infraction committee and immediately thereafter, the guy who decides who gets investigated and who doesn't, the competition of his beloved Longhorns was summarily eliminated by the NCAA.
Addition: Finally, in 1987, the Longhorns were found guilty of a major infraction for which they were given Probation. Mysteriously, at the end of the document filed with the NCAA detailing the probation, a certain clause was added that gave the University of Texas immunity for anything found after the date of the probation ruling that had to do with the timeframe prior to 1987. Ask yourself one important question, "Why was that clause added?"
Conspiracy theorists unite.
Charles Alan Wright.
One of the most distinguished attorneys the southwest has ever known. Successfully argued on behalf of Richard Nixon in several watergate cases, won 10 of his 12 arguments before the Supreme Court (the two he lost were subsequently overturned into his original point of view), literally wrote the playbook for procedure still used today in Federal Court, "Federal Practice and Procedure" which has been referenced over 10,000 times in Federal Court, and was appointed as a visiting professor to Harvard, Yale, Penn, Cambridge, etc.
Who is Charles Wright? Why is this professor of Law at the University of Texas who taught from 1955 until his death in 2000 the subject of my post?
Because Charles Alan Wright also wrote another document, well, not literally. He wrote the NCAA committee on infractions playbook. While his bio states he was only on the committee for ten years and chaired it for five, he is fully engrossed in the NCAA. Nevermind that during the time he chaired the committee and immediately thereafter, the University of Texas' competition in state was virtually wiped clean with the infractions levied against A&M and SMU, what is more important is the relationship between Wright and the NCAA.
Charles Wright has writings and credits in NCAA investigations from the early 1970's through the late 1990's as his health began to falter. That is 20+ years, or if you are keeping score, basically the entire time the NCAA has been levying penalties. Every investigation has his stamp on it. This is a snippet of the detail from his publication list at the UT library regarding the NCAA committee on Infractions -http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlaw/00025/law-00025.html
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0469 3 Administrative Review Panel, 1993
4 Administrative Review Panel, 1993
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0470 1 Administrative Review Panel, 1993
2 Administrative Review Panel, 1993
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0249 2 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
3 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
4 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
5 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1992-1993
6 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
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0250 1 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
2 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
3 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
4 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
5 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993-1994
6 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
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0251 1 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
2 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
4 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
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0452 2 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1993
3 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994-1995
4 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
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0453 1 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
2 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994-1999
3 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1994
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0454 1 Administrative Review Panel Cases, 1992-1999
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0119 4 Allegation 1, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
5 Allegation 2, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1975
6 Allegation 3, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1971-1976
7 Allegation 4, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1971-1977
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0116 2 Allegation 59, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1970-1976
3 Allegation 69, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
4 Allegation 70, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
5 Allegation 70, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
6 Allegation 70, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1971-1976
7 Allegation 71, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
8 Allegation 72, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, undated
9 Allegation 73, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, undated
10 Allegation 74, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, undated
11 Allegation 75, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, undated
12 Allegation 76, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
13 Allegation 77, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
14 Allegation 78, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
15 Allegation 79, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1970-1976
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0119 9 Allegations 12-21, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
10 Allegations 22-24, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
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0120 1 Allegations 25-29, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
2 Allegations 30-33, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
3 Allegations 34-40, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
4 Allegations 41-45, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
5 Allegations 46-50, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
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0119 8 Allegations 5-11, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
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0120 6 Allegations 51-56, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1976
7 Allegations 57-68, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1973-1976
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0258 3 Arizona State Law Journal, 1983
6 Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Georgia Athletic Association v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1982
2 Citizen Publishing v. Arizona Board of Regents, 1983
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0259 4 College Football Association, 1981-1982
5 College Football Association, 1981
6 College Football Association, 1980-1981
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0258 4 Committee Vacancy, 1982-1983
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0285 5 Convention Notices, 1978-1979
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0066 1 Correspondence, 1976-1977
2 Correspondence, 1977
3 Correspondence, 1976-1977
4 Correspondence, 1976
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0067 1 Correspondence, 1976
2 Correspondence, 1975-1976
3 Correspondence, 1974-1975
4 Correspondence, 1973-1974
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0068 1 Correspondence, 1972-1973
2 Correspondence, 1973-1974
3 Correspondence, 1975
4 Correspondence, 1975
5 Correspondence, 1974-1975
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0069 1 Correspondence, 1974
2 Correspondence, 1973
3 Correspondence, 1973
4 Correspondence, 1973
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0104 1 Correspondence, 1977-1981
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0247 1 Correspondence, 1983
2 Correspondence, 1983
3 Correspondence, 1983
4 Correspondence, 1982-1983
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0284 1 Correspondence, 1983-1984
2 Correspondence, 1984-1986
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0285 1 Correspondence, 1978
2 Correspondence, 1978
3 Correspondence, 1978
4 Correspondence, 1977-1978
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0450 3 Correspondence, 1993-1999
4 Correspondence, 1992
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0451 2 Correspondence, 1990-1991
6 Correspondence, 1987-1988
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0259 1 Council Minutes, 1983
2 Council Minutes, 1982
3 Council Minutes, 1980-1981
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0450 1 Faculty Athletics Representatives, 2000
2 Faculty Athletics Representatives, 1999
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0452 1 Faculty Athletics Representatives, 1999
5 Faculty Athletics Representatives, 1997-1999
There are hundreds of more boxes. The guys fingerprints are all over nearly every NCAA investigation from 1970 through 1995.
Additionally, and more importantly and unbelievably, Charles Wright was a football freak. Fanatic does not begin to describe the man. He began an intramural football team and appointed himself coach of the Legal Eagles at Texas. A team that still plays today. He was so serious about the team, he kept records, stats, held tryouts, and could not hold a conversation without discussing his team. He did this for over 30 years and could likely chronicle each of his teams 330 wins. He was so obsessed, the subject became a cornerstone in his obituary. Let that sink in. One of the most successful attorneys to ever argue before the Supreme Court, a man with cornerstone legal arguments that shaped US national policy, and his obituary was centered around a club football team. Word around texas was his obsession with his intramural team was only surpassed by one thing, his obsession with the Texas Longhorn football team. And this guy was THE MAN when it came to NCAA investigations. Does anyone see a conflict here?
The story that will never be told is that in an era of cheating, the one constant in the NCAA infraction world was Charles Wright, Longhorn Professor and Longhorn Fan. And during his tenure as chairman of the infraction committee and immediately thereafter, the guy who decides who gets investigated and who doesn't, the competition of his beloved Longhorns was summarily eliminated by the NCAA.
Addition: Finally, in 1987, the Longhorns were found guilty of a major infraction for which they were given Probation. Mysteriously, at the end of the document filed with the NCAA detailing the probation, a certain clause was added that gave the University of Texas immunity for anything found after the date of the probation ruling that had to do with the timeframe prior to 1987. Ask yourself one important question, "Why was that clause added?"
Conspiracy theorists unite.
