Following the NCAA’s ruling on its investigation into the Oklahoma State football program, three prominent men connected to the case added needed context to its resolution.
Greg Christopher, athletic director at Xavier and the chief hearing officer for the NCAA on the OSU investigation, discussed the investigation’s findings in a noon media teleconference. An hour-and-a-half later, OSU president Burns Hargis and former NCAA investigator Chuck Smrt (hired by OSU for its independent investigation) also answered questions by phone.
Here’s a sampling of what all three had to say.
GREG CHRISTOPHER
Why the NCAA panel did not rule OSU “failed to monitor” its football program: “We didn’t believe there was a failure to monitor, per say, because they had a compliance program for a drug policy.