The NCAA has been cleared to investigate programs implicated by FBI probe

Jamie BoggsAccording to Yahoo Sports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has given the NCAA permission to proceed in investigating claims made during the recent pay-for-play trial in New York.

The FBI has been active in this investigation for years, but there has been an agreement with the NCAA that they would stay out of the way as not to interfere with the process. Now that the first trial has concluded, and the FBI’s claims held up in court, NCAA officials have been given the go-ahead to proceed how they see fit.

Perhaps the most intriguing piece to this puzzle is that the institutions of higher education were actually seen as the victim at the trial. The prosecution claimed that James…