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Castiglione: OU working 'swiftly' on men's basketball issue
By Staff Reports
Published: 4/7/2010 4:08 PM
Last Modified: 4/7/2010 4:10 PM
Related story: Castiglione takes 'right approach' at OU
The University of Oklahoma continues to gather information “as swiftly as we can” about possible NCAA violations within its men’s basketball program, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said Wednesday.
Castiglione didn’t provide details about OU’s internal investigation and didn’t say if the NCAA had contacted the university.
“Right now we’re just trying to discover as much information as there is out there or come to the conclusion that there isn’t any information, if that were the case,” said Castiglione, who was in Tulsa for a Tulsa Sports Charities luncheon Wednesday.
According to a report from the entertainment Web site TMZ, a bank account held by freshman basketball player Tiny Gallon and his mother received a $3,000 wire transfer from Jeffrey A. Hausinger, a Merrill Lynch financial adviser based in Tampa, Fla. The report raised the question of whether Gallon might have violated the NCAA’s extra-benefit rules.
TMZ reported the story about Gallon on March 18, and Castiglione issued a statement through the school that day: “The university is committed to ensuring compliance with all NCAA rules and regulations. Any activity not in compliance is taken seriously and acted upon swiftly.”
He repeated that position Wednesday and added that any time OU receives a tip relating to potential NCAA violations, the school will check it out.
“We receive tips. We receive anonymous calls,” Castiglione said. “We have very extensive and thorough monitoring systems. We have a pretty large compliance operation.
“So any time we have any matter facing us, you can automatically assume, 100 percent of the time, we’re going to review it. If somebody wants to use a different word, evaluate - some use investigate - use whatever word you want to use. It’s going to happen. Not 75 percent of the time, not 88 percent, not 94. One-hundred percent of the time.”
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsext...ectid=92&articleid=20100407_92_0_hrimgs209457
By Staff Reports
Published: 4/7/2010 4:08 PM
Last Modified: 4/7/2010 4:10 PM
Related story: Castiglione takes 'right approach' at OU
The University of Oklahoma continues to gather information “as swiftly as we can” about possible NCAA violations within its men’s basketball program, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said Wednesday.
Castiglione didn’t provide details about OU’s internal investigation and didn’t say if the NCAA had contacted the university.
“Right now we’re just trying to discover as much information as there is out there or come to the conclusion that there isn’t any information, if that were the case,” said Castiglione, who was in Tulsa for a Tulsa Sports Charities luncheon Wednesday.
According to a report from the entertainment Web site TMZ, a bank account held by freshman basketball player Tiny Gallon and his mother received a $3,000 wire transfer from Jeffrey A. Hausinger, a Merrill Lynch financial adviser based in Tampa, Fla. The report raised the question of whether Gallon might have violated the NCAA’s extra-benefit rules.
TMZ reported the story about Gallon on March 18, and Castiglione issued a statement through the school that day: “The university is committed to ensuring compliance with all NCAA rules and regulations. Any activity not in compliance is taken seriously and acted upon swiftly.”
He repeated that position Wednesday and added that any time OU receives a tip relating to potential NCAA violations, the school will check it out.
“We receive tips. We receive anonymous calls,” Castiglione said. “We have very extensive and thorough monitoring systems. We have a pretty large compliance operation.
“So any time we have any matter facing us, you can automatically assume, 100 percent of the time, we’re going to review it. If somebody wants to use a different word, evaluate - some use investigate - use whatever word you want to use. It’s going to happen. Not 75 percent of the time, not 88 percent, not 94. One-hundred percent of the time.”
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsext...ectid=92&articleid=20100407_92_0_hrimgs209457
