UGA hires heavy-hitting NCAA attorney for represention on Jarvis Jones, other cases
ATHENS – Whether it’s the reason Georgia received such a quick and favorable response from the NCAA in the Jarvis Jones case will probably never be known, but hiring Mike Glazier to lead its investigation certainly didn’t hurt.
Glazier
Glazier is an attorney who specializes in NCAA litigation and works for the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King of Overland Park, Kan. He’s a former NCAA investigator who has been called “The Fixer” and “The Cleaner” – nicknames he takes issue with — for his unique ability to handle NCAA infractions matters in a swift and effective manner.
The Bulldogs, it turns out, have been working with Glazier since March of this year. In the past, UGA has been represented almost exclusively by Athens attorney Ed Tolley on NCAA matters.
Tolley remains on retainer. But Greg McGarity, who took over as Georgia’s athletic director about a year ago, has known Glazier for many years and felt like the Bulldogs could benefit from his firm’s level of NCAA expertise.
“Mike and I, basically I know him from my Florida days,” McGarity told the AJC. “So I’ve had a prior relationship with Mike and his firm. I decided to have them take the lead in situations such as this one. I think their level of expertise, the questions they ask, the depth of detail they provide, gathering every bit of information, that’s their specialty. They ask the right questions and present the answers in an accurate, honest report on behalf of institutions.”
It certainly worked in UGA’s latest NCAA case. Georgia hired Glazier to investigate claims that Jones, an all-star linebacker from Columbus, had accepted impermissible benefits from a parks and recreation administrator who had been convicted of fraud. UGA received Glazier’s report on July 29th, submitted it to the SEC on Aug. 2, and received a favorable ruling from the NCAA one week later.
It was determined that Jones had a preexisting relationship with the administrator in question and any benefits he received were permissible under NCAA bylaw12.1.2.1.6. Jones, a sophomore transfer from USC, will be able to play this fall.
“It was handled better and more quickly than we could have hoped for,” McGarity said.
Glazier’s services don’t come cheap. According to financial records obtained by the AJC, the Georgia Athletic Association has paid Bond, Schoeneck & King $25,227 since March.
The first invoice the school processed was for $1,244.55 on March 10. UGA also paid $4,085.05 in April, $14,943.93 in May and $4,953.73 on June 15th. UGA also paid Tolley’s firm $4,200 in March.
“Back when we had the reports about [Ray] Drew and [Isaiah] Crowell, that’s when our relationship started,” McGarity said. “We decided to engage [Bond, Schoeneck & King] fr things that needed a higher level of scrutiny and review since they are experts in NCAA enforcement matters and interpretations.”
Oddly enough, the matters regarding the recruitment of Crowell and Drew, thought to be secondary violations, have yet to be adjudicated by the NCAA, McGarity said.
According to Glazier’s offical bio, he is considered a pioneer in collegiate sports law. A former member of the NCAA’s enforcement staff, he left after seven years and co-founded in 1986 the Slive/Glazier Sports Group, one of the country’s first law firms dedicated to representing college and universities on NCAA-related matters. His partner was Mike Slive, who is now commissioner of the SEC.
Since joining Bond, Schoeneck & King Glazier has represented dozens of Division 1 athletic programs on major infractions cases. Minnesota paid his group nearly $1 million back in 1999 and Kansas paid him more than $400,000 in a basketball infractions case several years back. Presently he is representing Oregon and Tennessee, both of which have major cases before the NCAA Infractions Committee.
Employing Glazier can be a double-edged sword. Though his reputation is to generally get his clients relief in their dealings with the NCAA, his basic strategy is to have institutions self-impose penalties in advance of NCAA hearings and “disassociate” with trouble-making individuals.
“If schools are at fault, they’re at fault,” McGarity said. “[Glazier and his team] don’t sugarcoat things.”
Glazier could not immediately be reached. However, he has been written about extensively. The New York Times focused on his practice in a 2007 story by former AJC staffer Joe Drape and The Wall Street Journal did a Q&A with him a few years ago.
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59bulldawg
August 10th, 2011
8:19 am
JB@7:25: “I’m thinking the dumba$$’$ over at Tech running their Athletic office ought to get his number”
LOL! Well said brother!
1eyedJack
August 10th, 2011
8:27 am
Hey tide roll, got any white guys playing offensive line over on the flats?
gdawginkalamazoo
August 10th, 2011
8:27 am
UGA player’s answer while being questioned by the NCAA:
“I didn’t know any of that was going on…”
TECH player’s answer while being questioned by the NCAA:
“Coach told me to say that I didn’t know any of that was going on…”
That’s the difference between 25K for an experienced lawyer and Paul Johnson trying to play Matlock.
Randall "Pink" Floyd
August 10th, 2011
8:29 am
Well, Tech Guy, you definitely got the first part right. Your athletic program certainly feels that it’s okay to cheat.
as much as i dislike the dawgs
August 10th, 2011
8:30 am
i have to side with them on this one.
for whatever reason we sure have had to grab our ankles way too many times in the past 10 years over the fact that we hired the wrong attorney to handles our business.
no other way to put it.
as smart as we claim to be we have shot our selves in the face over n over again.
wrt the georgle o’leary notred dame debacle is cost us millions because of a lack of a quality attorney.
wrt the chan gailey contract it cost us millions.
wrt the paul phewett contract it cost us 7 million plus the millions we lost because we had to keep that nit wit years beyond his usefulness because we were still paying the chan gailey contract.
and most recently we will have to pay 100k plus attorney’s fees plus the cost of self investigating plus the cost of re evaluating the way we do things etc etc etc.
and now we have to pay for an appeal that we will probably lose.
meanwhile the dawgs will spend under 10k and probably be done with all this while we suffer through 4 more years of probation.
drad should be f’in shot. if the dawgs new attorney is so reknowned that he has the nicname of the fixer than why didnt WE hire him to begin with.
maybe we should put him on retainer for the next 10 years or so.
and i have to ask…. what are we paying drad big bucks for? we hired him in part because of his association with sec football…. ie his experience and his contacts.
so far his contacts SUCK!
and please dont bring up uga cheats and we dont. its not like the rules that the ncaa tries to enforce are the laws of man. they are made up rules that a bloated unorganized inefficient money hungry organization uses to try an keep its members in line and nothing more.
jacket crusher
August 10th, 2011
8:30 am
CPJ told me you were arrogant and to not answer your questions. If you don’t leave me alone I’m just going to have to punch you in the mouth. SO LEAVE
jacket crusher
August 10th, 2011
8:30 am
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gdawginkalamazoo
August 10th, 2011
8:32 am
What’s up with Crowell and Drew?
Toccoa Dawg
August 10th, 2011
8:37 am
as much as i dislike the dawgs ……….. I couldn’t agree with you more. There is no excuse for a school like GT to have an athletic program ran in such a way. nor is there an excuse for GT not to compete for the ACC title every year with the recruits we have in this state. But no I can’t pull for tech or they will kick me out of the Bulldogs’R'us club. Hope you understand.
GT
August 10th, 2011
8:40 am
.I am with Tech guy. First of all the NCAA is not a government enforcement agency. To have to pay millions of dollars to an ex NCAA employee, is distortion. I think you take the NCAA to a real court of law and sue them. If they are costing you this much money to do business with them, whether they get it or not, and if you don’t do it they shut you down? I love college football. I am actually glad Jones gets to play. But the NCAA is there, supposedly, to make an even playing field for competition. What is even, about one team paying a million and getting their way while another doesn’t have the money? The one that has the money is, in my mind, more likely to be cheating than the broke school anyway. And on top of all that the hot shot attorney is in Kansas. He probably plays golf with the NCAA regulators weekly. I hope they make him pick up the tab. If they were congressman they would be jailed, but they aren’t congressman. I thought we couldn’t get any lower but I was wrong.
sogadog
August 10th, 2011
8:45 am
Perhaps Georgia Tech should retain Mr. Glazier.
LHarding Dawg
August 10th, 2011
8:47 am
I would guess that alex is so young and immature that he has never had to pay an attorney. I can’t even believe I am responding to a child.
DC
August 10th, 2011
8:49 am
lol…AU hired an ex NCAA person and UGA fans had some words about it…
S GA AU FAN
August 10th, 2011
9:00 am
@ True Dawg Fan
Innocent until proven guilty, what a novel concept….
Joey
August 10th, 2011
9:08 am
I think most of us could care less what shyster Auburn hired. What we “had some words about” was Cam’s daddy getting paid a bunch of money for Cam to play, with Cam supposedly not knowing.
I guess the money for the major church renovations and the new Escalade just appeared in the offering plate one Sunday morning.
tide roll
August 10th, 2011
9:09 am
I hate what happened to Tech and the punishment seems to not fit the crime….But I would hope they have learned to hire some expert help next time. The system is what is it is, like it or not.
Firemarshall Bill
August 10th, 2011
9:09 am
@GT…….”if they were congressman they would be jailed”….Seriously? You must be a very young jacket. If you don’t think that’s the way this entire country is run then you’ve got a lot to learn my friend. I’m not sayin it’s right……but it is what it is. That’s what got you guys in trouble; fighting against what “is”.
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
9:13 am
alex
Read slowly or have someone read to you.
Jarvis Jones was not a part of the University of Georgia in any way, shape or form when these things happened. Therefore, there is no punishment to the University of Georgia.
JB
August 10th, 2011
9:13 am
What I want is for our LB’s to watch the tape of the Auburn game last year before we play them this year. Watch them go after Murray’s knee’s….seconds after ball has left his hands….And Trooper Taylor waving that towel over his head and ” chest bumping” them as they come off the field for doing it. Yes, that’s what I want.
Firemarshall Bill
August 10th, 2011
9:14 am
Lex…..too funny. Always on point
GT
August 10th, 2011
9:17 am
You got to ask yourself how all this innocent prior relationship thing just happen to be with the best defensive player, Jones, on Georgia’s team next year. If the player had been a flop I guess when the NCAA came calling you just blow it off and there is no one million dollars paid no matter how innocent the player is? Nope the NCAA has to be clever and pick their shots. I wonder if they were shaking Tech down with Thomas and we were too stupid to know it, or maybe we knew it and said we are not going to live life like this. Two different ways to handle the same problem.
BIG Joe
August 10th, 2011
9:17 am
This WHOLE thing stinks & is a waste of money & time –money, especially important while our economy is struggling it’s a shame that a state-funded institution has to WAIST money on hiring lawyers because of the NCAA’s rules. There’s another post on here tabbed ‘UGA to fans: Obey NCAA rules’, where UGA AD felt compelled to issue a letter to season ticket holders asking them not to offer any student athletes benefits — In other words, don’t buy a football player a Coke or a hotdog or popcorn. Now I just got word that AUG 20th ‘picture day’ that no one will be able to bring in items for signatures because of the fear that someone may by them, causing a NCAA investigation. This is stupid & childish behavior. All 120 FBS should form a union & leave the NCAA.
NCAA Enforcer Julie Roe Lach
August 10th, 2011
9:18 am
Mr Chizik, you’ll know when we finished investigating Auburn. And we’re not finished.
Firemarshall Bill
August 10th, 2011
9:18 am
JB….I just want us to get back to playing “head-hunting” football. Like many have said, we haven’t had a Davis or Blue since they left. This D hasn’t been nasty in a long time and that’s what I’m ready to see.
BIG Joe
August 10th, 2011
9:19 am
Correction: should be ‘Sell’ or ‘buy’ these signed items–you get the picture.
S GA AU FAN
August 10th, 2011
9:27 am
@ DawginLex
Nice post as usual, insert Cam Newton for Jarvis Jones and insert Auburn for the University of Georgia. Same old story but from a different perspective.
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
9:29 am
funny thing is, these Tech TROLLS don’t realize or maybe aren’t smart enough to realize that most if us Dawgs thought the NCAA was way too heavy handed with Tech and dished out way too much punishment.
There is still a definite difference in the NCAA’s eyes though between coming forward voluntarily about something versus trying to hide something.
MarineDog
August 10th, 2011
9:36 am
This cannot possivbly be the same Tide Roll. A GT fan or Bama fan? It has to be an imposter.
MarineDog
August 10th, 2011
9:37 am
“possibly”
Tobias Funke
August 10th, 2011
9:39 am
Tide Roll said, “Georgia Tech should hire this guy. Maybe then we could get our 2009 ACC championship back.”
BUSTED! You have to be a supersized loser to fake being another team’s fan. Maybe you should hire this guy to represent you. Again, what a loser!
I’ve been saying for close to five years that Evans was not good for our program. Turns out I was right. Did anybody ever think that Evans was never there for the program? It’s hard to do a good job when you are lying and and cheating on your own family. Good riddance to Evans and a hellova job to GM.
Go Dawgs! I can’t wait til Sept. 3rd!!!
Big Albany Dawg
August 10th, 2011
9:42 am
Just goes to show the Gators needed plenty of legal advice….
AltamahaDawg
August 10th, 2011
9:43 am
Actually, it was never a question as to IF UGA itself was going to be guilty of anything. UGA was never in question. It was a question about an individual having his amateur status suspended and not being able to play for (whomever).
BG
August 10th, 2011
9:44 am
So McGarity had a relationship with Glazier from his fays at UF. I wonder how many times UF hired Glazier while Urban was there?
UGA Insider
August 10th, 2011
9:47 am
Tide Roll,
Are you really an undercover Tech fan?? What is up with that statement about the 09′ ACC title?
Moving onto serious matters……… The UGA D looked good yesterday I heard. The news of JJ had everyone fired up. Grantham was heard yelling and screaming all over the practice fields they say. Look for the UGA D to dominate in several games this year.
bucket
August 10th, 2011
9:49 am
Only an Auburn fan would equate a daddy shopping his kid for $200,000 with necessary transportation costs paid by a boyfriend for a poor kid.
Joey
August 10th, 2011
9:50 am
“If the player had been a flop I guess when the NCAA came calling you just blow it off and there is no one million dollars paid no matter how innocent the player is?”
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GT, what the hell are you talking about? Who paid who “one million dollars?”
AltamahaDawg
August 10th, 2011
9:51 am
I’d say Fl hired Glazier exactly the right amount of times.
Junior Samples
August 10th, 2011
9:54 am
it is fun to see some of the trolls and bottom feeders slither out from under the rock they were under. all it takes is a little positive uga news. fun to sit back and watch
AltamahaDawg
August 10th, 2011
9:55 am
Irrespective of tide roll being a tech or Bama fan, he has always proven that (neither) mattered more to him than what happens at Georgia.
bucket
August 10th, 2011
9:56 am
Good question Joey. I was wondering where the one million figure came from also. I t certainly didn’t come from this article.
JB
August 10th, 2011
9:56 am
I holding my breath on our D until I don’t see the other teams WR’s running loose in our secondary waving their arms with not a Dawg within 15 yards, just say’n.
Tobias Funke
August 10th, 2011
9:58 am
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
UGA Insider
August 10th, 2011
9:58 am
JB,
Sweet Willie is in Oklahoma and we have tons of talent and a good coach now. Those days are over.
Daeg Days
August 10th, 2011
9:59 am
I think the NCAA owed UGA a quick resolution on this one after last year. People have their jobs on the line.
DougsMugs
August 10th, 2011
10:02 am
@Mysterious Blue = energy vampire
intheknow
August 10th, 2011
10:05 am
Schools provide student athletes with a four year college education…room and board…all the food they could ever want….free medical care…private tutors…prefered class schedules etc….and after four/five years the athletes walk away with an all expenses paid free college degree…some leave earlier because the exsposure the colleges give them allow them to be drafted earlier by professional teams for more money than the majority of people make in a life time….. and the athletes walk away owing NOTHING…. All the schools ask of them during thier stay is to comply with NCAA guidelines,obey the law, be on time for practice and represent thier school to the best of thier ability when they compete. Is that too much to ask them to do?…Over 70% of todays college students graduate with one or two student loans hanging over their heads for the next 10-15 years…If student athletes are too dumb to figure out for themselves what a great deal they have and can’t comply with a few simple rules they don’t need to be allowed to play football, basketball, etc…..High schools need to preach this to thier athletes…. if you even think your actions or the actions of someone you know who’s acting on your your behalf won’t pass the NCAA smell test stop and ask someone that can give you an honest answer….because if you don’t you run the risk of ruining your chance at a free education and exspoure for a potenial lucative professional career.
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
10:06 am
Insider
My bet is the tide roll posting on this blog is an impostor.
The other guy always rambles about offensive linemen and would never own up to being a techie even if he really is
Dirty Dawg
August 10th, 2011
10:07 am
So, the NCAA works just like Congress…you ‘work’ up there for a few years, get to know the people and the inner-workings, i.e., where the skeletons and dirty pictures are hidden…leave to join, or form, a lobbying/attorney firm so you can go back and use your ‘relationships’ to leverage a quick, and likely favorable decision. Is his a great country or what?
It all goes to show that it’s not what you know, ‘or’ who you know…it’s what you know ‘on’ who you know….
Gator Mike
August 10th, 2011
10:25 am
Great to see that UGA has a Foley/Gator trained AD now who will help the Dawgs. I hope our UGA trained coach (Muschamp) will improve the GATORS from their abyssmal showing last year.
It seems we may be even in the lash up these days.
MarineDog
August 10th, 2011
10:31 am
DawginLex
August 10th, 2011
10:06 am
My exact sentiments! This is not the real Tide Roll. No mention of OL.