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Gioia's ego won't even allow him to properly admit when he lied. Only the headmaster can allow tuition to go unpaid. There is no way he keeps his job. If he does, what does that tell you about the MBA board? http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/mba-tells-students-collection-problems-were-among-causes-tssaa-sanctions

TSSAA should be ashamed. MBA, as the new article in the Tennessean states, had a complete lack of institutional control. Only MBA's current arrogance would allow them to continue to try and protect the administration. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120117/SPORTS07/301170022/Analysis-MBA-avoided-harsher-penalties?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

inapproprate203....you have made your intentions are clear with every post. You mean nothing more than to take shot after shot at the former coach. You offer nothing other than juvenile cheap shots. Let me guess...the coach was 'too hard', or what was another one...oh yeah, the coach 'didn't make it fun'. Hundreds of other players and parents 'had fun', but you keep surfacing. The only indisputable fact in this entire MBA episode is that the father of a player, Chris Simonis, went complaining to the headmaster because his son was on the bench...3 YEARS later. Believe me when I say the entire MBA community would like to see you go away.

Apparently Joe Davis's involvement is now surfacing. If the rumors are true about Joe Davis then it'll be interesting to see how MBA spins this one.

Chatter at the basketball game last night was that Oneal the AD is gone as is a member of the finance office. Also, that this will be Gioia's last year at MBA.

The Nashville City Paper: http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/tssaa-hammers-mba-financial-aid-violations Nice spin job by MBA to the TSSAA. Did MBA write that letter "from the TSSAA"? They avoided mentioning many known cases by placing blame on the old coach and the finance office.

The Nashville Scene. \\http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/place-the-blame-in-mbas-alleged-improper-payment-investigation-where-it-belongs-andmdash-on-the-toothless-tssaa/Content?oid=2728464

The Tennessean has posted an article on this topic also. http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120110/SPORTS07/301100044/MBA-being-investigated-again-over-financial-aid

The Nashville City Paper article had very little to do with the former coach and the situation that the disgruntled parents brought up. The article also had nothing to do with Ensworth supporters. Any attempts to divert attention towards either of these instances arean attempt by the MBA-faithful to distract the public and the TSSAA from the real issue at hand. MBA has been committing violations for a very long time. MBA's solution...bring up a closed case, blame the rival school, and blame the newspaper. What MBA's lawyer should have said was...."even though MBA has not cooperated with the TSSAA for decades, now that MBA has been exposed, now that MBA is under TSSAA investigation, and now that MBA is at the center of media scruntiny, MBA is going to fully cooperate with the aurorities and reveal what MBA has known for a long time." There was no self-reporting in MBA's case. MBA did not self-report until they were investigated by both the TSSAA and the media.

Interesting take below by another poster on the Nashville City Paper article: In April, when this issue broke, the fundamental question facing the authorities at MBA was the the general objective of the school's response. Is the goal to limit the damage, or fix something that's broken. Clearly the decision was to limit the damage. As such, the school confined its admissions to matters that were either already public knowledge, or appeared likely to become public knowledge in the near future. The one person who was indisputably linked to the incident was fired...or not, but somehow was no longer associated with the program. The matter was closed when the TSSAA sent the school a letter indicating satisfaction with these tokens. One would assume such a letter would have the tone of a reprimand, or at least an admonishment of sorts. This one read more like a valentine or a reference. This particular response rests on the hope that the explanation will be accepted, and there will be no further questions. "Optimism" is not a particularly sound strategy. I'm reminded of a line from the British comedy Blackadder Goes Forth in which the main character's attorney indicates that he plans to "play the mindless optimism card pretty heavily." And clearly this strategy has failed with gusto, on multiple levels. First, and rather obviously, it hasn't worked because it wasn't true: there were other cases. Second, the TSSAA doesn't seem to buy it. Third, and in my view most importantly, rather than beginning to address the damage to the school's reputation for integrity, it has created an even bigger breach. The course not chosen would have been more painful in the short run. If I had been the emperor, I would have brought in (at MBA's expense) an outside investigator to conduct a thorough inquiry. There would have been a directive to all staff that failure to cooperate fully with the investigation would result in termination, and any alumni/boosters who chose not to cooperate would no longer be welcome on campus. The results of the investigation would be made available to anyone who wanted to read it, with the names of students redacted. I would also have announced that MBA teams would withdraw from all post-season competition for the next two school years. I would stress that when men of integrity make mistakes, they admit them with genuine contrition and accept the reasonable consequences of their actions. And then I would have resigned my position as emperor.