The NCAA served the University of Miami with a notice of allegations tonight regarding rules violations in the football and basketball programs. No word yet on what exactly is included in the notice but The Associated Press reports that it includes the dreaded "lack of institutional control" charge and names several former Miami coaches, including Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith.

University president Donna Shalala wasted little time releasing a statement that puts the NCAA on blast for what she says is a shoddy investigation. As The Hater suspected, Shalala used that little matter about the NCAA admitting its (now former) chief enforcement officer's shadiness during the investigation to cast doubt on the entire inquiry.

And by "cast doubt" The Hater means "call the NCAA some scandalous, incompetent punks."

Here is Shalala's statement in its entirety:

"The University of Miami deeply regrets and takes full responsibility for those NCAA violations that are based on fact and are corroborated by multiple individuals and/or documentation. We have already self-imposed a bowl ban for an unprecedented two-year period, forfeited the opportunity to participate in an ACC championship game, and withheld student-athletes from competition.

Over the two and a half years since the University of Miami first contacted the NCAA enforcement staff about allegations of rules violations, the NCAA interviewed dozens of witnesses, including current and former Miami employees and student-athletes, and received thousands of requested documents and emails from the University. Yet despite our efforts to aid the investigation, the NCAA acknowledged on February 18, 2013 that it violated its own policies and procedures in an attempt to validate the allegations made by a convicted felon. Many of the allegations included in the Notice of Allegations remain unsubstantiated.

Now that the Notice of Allegations has been issued, let me provide some context to the investigation itself:

Many of the charges brought forth are based on the word of a man who made a fortune by lying. The NCAA enforcement staff acknowledged to the University that if Nevin Shapiro, a convicted con man, said something more than once, it considered the allegation "corroborated" - an argument which is both ludicrous and counter to legal practice.

The NCAA enforcement staff failed, even after repeated requests, to interview many essential witnesses of great integrity who could have provided first-hand testimony, including, unbelievably, Paul Dee, who has since passed away, but who served as Miami Athletic Director during many of the years that violations were alleged to have occurred. How could a supposedly thorough and fair investigation not even include the Director of Athletics?

Finally, we believe the NCAA was responsible for damaging leaks of unsubstantiated allegations over the course of the investigation. Let me be clear again: for any rule violation - substantiated and proven with facts - that the University, its employees, or student-athletes committed, we have been and should be held accountable. We have worked hard to improve our compliance oversight, and we have already self-imposed harsh sanctions. We deeply regret any violations, but we have suffered enough.

The University and counsel will work diligently to prepare our official response to the Notice of Allegations and submit it to the Committee on Infractions within the required 90-day time period.

We trust that the Committee on Infractions will provide the fairness and integrity missing during the investigative process."

Yeah, the NCAA probably is gonna have to go ahead and respond to that.

The Hater, for one, is going to be really disappointed if there really are no hookers, booze and expensive cars involved because reading that Yahoo Sports report about all of that was entertaining as hell. Please let it be true.

The fact that Miami already self-imposed some punishments suggests there is some hard evidence of real dirt but that doesn't mean that Shalala's (self-serving) claims about the shadiness of the NCAA's investigation aren't true. The Hater is all for the NCAA taking a hit but too bad its ineptitude has provided an opening for a program such as Miami to play the victim.

The Hater is in the house.