The firm's business insurance policy would probably settle the case enabling IU to pay off the offending coach to resign, taking pressure off of us alumns………….hmmmm……….maybe we could even turn a profit

Another site posted the salaries of the athletic department and I was wondering how IU would ever expect to compete in football in a major conference when the football coach makes just 20k more than the women's basketball coach.

1. What authority does the position have to compell access to records ?
2. What authority to “sanction” a coach before violations get out of hand ?
2. What budget and staff to investigate ? To design and implement systems ?
3. Who resolves conflicts of opinion on compliance ?
4. Who reports compliance to the NCAA ?

Does the AD support the $700k/year coach he has invested his career in or the $70k/year compliance guy ? I recall KS threw the compliance staff under the bus blaming them for not notifying him of his own violations

It seems to me compliance is better done by a position outside the AD or even by an outside private firm ( like an auditing firm ) which would be “untouchable” by the AD.

Once outside the AD the position could be clearly incented and compensated based on “0″ violations. No conlict would exist over whether the position hampers recruiting.

For once the university might consider thinking outside the box

This is a very temporary solution.

As a result I propose this job should be structured OUTSIDE the athletic dept for the next 3 years reporting DIRECTLY to IU President .

In this way the position is NOT monitoring the very same dept he/she works for. Also this means job performance and compensation are not tools that can be used against the compliance officer to force him/her to “look the other way”.

If working for the AD, when does this guy do a good job worthy of a bonus ?

a. when he finds problems and reports them ?
or
b when overlooks them as we are recruiting a 5 star player ?

What all of this tells me is that there is some problem in the Athletic Department that knowledgeable compliance professionals want no part of. Evidently there are still unresolved problems that are not acceptable to someone from the outside.

Looks like the only people who will take it are inside the system and know if the “F” it up they only have to worry about getting promoted. Being an insider he may be part of the problem rather than a solution.