re: A&M president does Manziel money gesture

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Jackie won games and was exonerated in the end.

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To answer any doubts about Sherrill's character, (Mississippi St. athletics director Larry) Templeton flew to Kansas City and met with an NCAA official who had worked on the A&M case. Sherrill claimed to have a letter clearing him of any personal involvement in the scandal, and Templeton wanted to find out "if the letter was indeed factual." David Berst, the NCAA's head of enforcement, confirmed that he had written a letter to Sherrill, but he had only been "responding to a question" posed by the coach. "When I've heard about this letter," Berst says now, "it's been cited as exonerating [Sherrill], but it doesn't do that. It simply states that he wasn't named directly in serious violations." Berst adds that the A&M investigation "was considered a major infractions case, but an institution's infractions case. We only take action against an individual if he is named directly in serious violations."

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In its report on the '88 football case, the NCAA Committee on Infractions cited Jackie Sherrill, then A&M's football coach and athletic director, for failing to detect and self-report violations, including an arrangement in which a booster paid star quarterback Kevin Murray more than $4,000 for work Murray did not fully perform.

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