No. But the employer is held accountable if a employee cooks their books. Anytime that the infraction/illegal action benefits the business the employee works for, that company gets in trouble. I'm not saying I agree with what's about to be handed down to us, I'm just explaining the problem with your analogy.
Us --- Hire outside firm and spend major bucks for two or three attorneys to represent us. Make note in NCAA report of substantial cost incurred.
P5 --- Call alumnus of top ten law firm in U.S. who calls another twenty firms with alumni. Tells school not to worry about anything. Thirty lawyers show up at NCAA for lunch and a weekend of golf with all their old classmates. Problem solved.
It's a double-edged sword.
If Coach Hud knew about it or tried to cover it up after the fact, then the university would be punished for sanctioning the rule-breaking or hindering the investigation.
If Coach Hud didn't know it (which I'm assuming right now that he didn't), then the NCAA could come back and claim that he should have known what his coaching staff was doing as official representatives of the program and claim "Lack of Institutional Control" which warrants punishment. This depends in what rules are in place at the universities and how the rules are enforced by the compliance officials at the school.
Last edited by TechAlum05; October 11th, 2015 at 09:50 pm. Reason: Clarified comments
Did a quick read of the reports and don't remember seeing lack of institutional control and allegations were not alleged by the NCAA or the school that Hud knew anything. Honestly don't think this falls under "lack of institutional control". It is very hard to say that the school should have been able to detect and control this type of behavior. As a matter of fact the school makes a good point in their response. If the ACT organization couldn't identify this and the NCAA couldn't identify this then how the heck were we suppose to recognize this?? Especially since the school isn't privy to all previous test results.
Matters not though since we are talking a number of Level 1 allegations which have been admitted too.
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