said.Ayotte isnt alone in decrying the discord between the IOC and WADA. Beckie

SMU is expected to give new head coach Tim Jankovich a contract of at least five years in length with a salary that would put him in the top tier of the American Athletic Conference, once negotiations are complete, according to a source.Jankovich wouldnt comment on the negotiations on Tuesday. But he did discuss Larry Browns abrupt decision on Friday to step down as the Mustangs head coach after four seasons in Dallas.I didnt know in advance, Jankovich said Tuesday night of Browns decision.SMU athletic director Rick Hart said Friday that the school had offered Brown a contract to coach until 2020, but Brown chose instead to resign. Jankovich said Brown told him by phone that he was resigning. Jankovich didnt want to discuss Browns contract issues with the school.Jankovich said he never discussed with Brown the timing of succeeding him. But he said it was predetermined that he would be the successor when he left his head-coaching job at Illinois State to join Brown four years ago.Jankovich said it wasnt a handshake deal or he would never have left what he said was a top-25 team with the Redbirds. He said there was an agreement in place that he would receive a contract to replace Brown when he left.Jankovich had been the head coach at Illinois State from 2007-12. He was also a head coach at North Texas from 1993-97.Jankovich said the timing of Browns departure wasnt ideal. Summer recruiting began last week. SMU is also coming off an NCAA postseason ban in 2016 (violations included academic fraud and unethical conduct) after winning the regular-season and conference tournament titles in 2015.The Mustangs, Jankovich said, would have 11 players on scholarship for the 2016-17 season, and likely 11 in 2017-18, as sanctions continue for the next two years. The Mustangs had to lose nine scholarships over three years, but since they used only 11 of 13 in the year of the sanctions, the actual reduction of scholarships was seven over the next three seasons.We suffered some big losses, but I still think we will be in competition for the top of the AAC, said Jankovich of losing Nic Moore (whom he brought with him from Illinois State), Markus Kennedy and Jordan Tolbert. We wont be big on numbers, but we still have opportunities for good things this upcoming year.Jankovich said the decision to leave Illinois State was still one of the toughest he had to make. But he said he believed in SMU and was convinced the program could be a national power.I believed in Coach Brown, said Jankovich. It played out. This is what I thought would happen.Jankovich wasnt referring to the NCAA violations that led to a postseason ban and a nine-game suspension for Brown last season -- Jankovich coached the team to a 9-0 record during that time -- under the coachs control penalty. Instead, he was referencing the Mustangs 94-39 record over the past four years, the revival of Moody Coliseum and putting SMU basketball back on the national map.Jankovich said the Mustangs could have played in three NCAA tournaments, instead of just one. SMU was considered one of the final snubs in year two of the Brown-Jankovich tenure and would have likely been an NCAA tournament team in year four had it not been for a postseason ban. SMU went to the NCAA tournament in year three.Im at a program that is competing at the highest level, said Jankovich. I left a team that was going to be in the top 25. I know it was. But I love Dallas. I love SMU. I always thought it would be a sleeping giant. But its not sleeping anymore. 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One of the worlds leading anti-doping scientists cringes at finger-pointing toward the World Anti-Doping Agency by leaders in international sports and tells The Associated Press that with so much conflict, the only people who can be happy these days are the dopers and the cheaters.Christiane Ayotte, the director of the WADA-accredited anti-doping laboratory in Montreal, said in an interview with AP this week that she is wary of the anti-doping summit the International Olympic Committee is holding Saturday -- a meeting at which the future of the drug-fighting movement will be discussed. The summit will include only one representative from WADA: President Craig Reedie , who also serves as an IOC member.Whats the plan? Whats the goal? Who is invited and whats going to happen? Ayotte asks. What we really need to do is regroup and show a united front.The summit will include several IOC members, along with presidents of the American, Russian and Chinese Olympic committees and heads of some of the worlds biggest Olympic sports. Top on the agenda is a proposal to make the anti-doping system separate from the individual sports federations , most of which operate their own anti-doping programs under WADA guidelines.A different set of IOC members attended a similar summit that WADA held last month , but they identified different priorities, including bringing more funds into the agency to allow it to bolster its investigative and sanctioning powers, and improving its system for allowing whistle-blowers to come forward.Ayotte said experts in the anti-doping movement are in the best position to make long-term decisions about WADA, which receives half of its funding from the IOC and half from governments around the world. She described the IOC as a group that gets into testing every two years (at the Olympics), and otherwise, theyre not there. For us, this is our everyday life.WADA has blamed its lack of resources and authority for its slow response to Russian whistle-blowers who exposed the widespread, state-sponsored cheating that investigations went on to show had been going on for years in their home country.That, along with revelations from now-deposed Russian lab director Grigory Rodchenkov about a government-backed scheme that undermined testing at the Sochi Olympics, led to investigations of Russias sports and anti-doping programs, which eventually led WADA to recommend Russias ouster from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.dddddddddddd IOC president Thomas Bach led a move against that sanction, instead choosing a path that allowed 271 Russians -- about 70 percent of its proposed roster -- to compete.That marked the beginning of a fracture between IOC and WADA leaders, with Bach and others suggesting that WADAs slow action allowed the Russian schemes to flourish.Most recently, IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. told a Spanish newspaper: We were very critical of WADA and we will continue to be. They are responsible for what goes on inside international laboratories but their labs in Sochi and Moscow were like Sodom and Gomorrah.Ayotte, who assisted at the Sochi lab both before and during the 2014 Olympics, described a collegial relationship with Rodchenkov, who gave the impression that many of the problems identified at the lab before the Olympics were being corrected.All the while, however, they were laughing in our face. We were shocked. We can never pardon or forget what happened there, Ayotte said.Ayotte isnt alone in decrying the discord between the IOC and WADA. Beckie Scott, who chairs the WADA athlete commission, wrote an op-ed Wednesday noting that, Almost every day, someone new from the Olympic family takes to the media with the critical claim that the global anti-doping `system is broken.IOC members Sergei Bubka and Gerardo Werthein have also been critical of WADA in recent weeks.A letter published by the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations decried the framing of the Russian doping problem as a political issue and said the IOC must commit to becoming part of the solution and, not through denial and equivocation continue to exacerbate the problem.Ayotte, who is president of a worldwide group of lab directors, said she came from a meeting earlier this week where concern over the IOC undermining of WADA was growing.Were very worried about what will come up with regard to the power and the mandate of WADA, she said. Yes, we need to make some accommodations and some changes, but this is not the time to tear everything down and start again.---Follow Pells on Twitter: https://twitter.com/epells ' ' '