Its very relevant, because the topic/question is
Posted on: September 21, 2017 at 09:56:54 CT
FIJItiger
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whether MU's self penalization was just and in alignment with what would be expected of a program that was actually trying, not if violations occurred.
What was uncovered were violations. They were all secondary in nature and within the scope of responsibility of the compliance department to control. In this case, MU's compliance department dropped the ball and these violations went undetected even though in several of the cases they were disclosed to the compliance department. MU chose to blame this on the prior coaching staff, and bring significant penalties against its men's basketball program for the independent actions of boosters and lack of proper oversight by compliance on secondary violations. My argument is that is a vast anomaly in approach and completely out of line with any comparable examples, not that violations didn't occur. As I said below, if an investigation occurs....violations are going to be uncovered. Particularly if the institution has a strong interest in finding violations to be disclosed as was the case here.