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Originally Posted by sueali
The NCAA looks at the institution and it's compliance as a whole. The Basketball violation was also a failure to monitor. So as a whole the NCAA is penalizing the Oklahoma Athletic Department (really their compliance department) for failure to monitor for rules compliance. Does that make sense?
As I said in a previous post I am an administrator for a DI program, who is in charge of NCAA Compliance on my campus. This has caused a stir amongst institution compliance programs, because OU was monitoring their employment the same way if not more than most institutions (None of the institutions that I have worked with have ever collected gross employment earnings, which OU was doing, now they failed to collect them during this time, but this was still their policy). A lot of compliance efforts rely on the student and the employer being honest, which in this case they were not. It was a complete disregard for the rules by the employer and the student-athlete (who were both informed on the NCAA policies), which is in no way the fault of OU.
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Yeah that makes perfect sense. Absolutely. It's just a shame that when it boils down to it......honesty on the part of your own players is the main issue here. It sounds like OU was doing more than necessary to make sure that rules were followed. You would think that after being given the opportunity to play at a place like OU......you would try to show at least a little bit of integrity. I know I sound incredibly naive (I know this kind of stuff happens everywhere), but man, it is just ridiculous.