It's starting to sound like it.
We've reported before (
here,
here) on Oklahoma's various snafus as it relates to the whole Rhett Bomar little work/big pay deal with a certain auto dealership. Oklahoma felt it did the right thing in catching Bomar in the act and kicking him and teammate J.D. Quinn off the team as sacrificial lambs. But then the NCAA smacked them down some more and now
Oklahoma's steamed.
Red meat, please settle nicely onto my plate:
Oklahoma ``strongly disagrees'' with the NCAA's allegation that the university failed to adequately monitor the employment of dismissed starting quarterback Rhett Bomar and other athletes at a Norman car dealership, according to documents released by the university Friday.
``We ... assert that the University met, if not exceeded, industry standards regarding our student-athlete employment monitoring,'' University President David Boren said in a letter dated March 7, which was obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request.
``There were no other reasonable additional steps we could have taken that would have prevented these violations or detected them any sooner,'' Boren said in the letter.
The NCAA has claimed that Oklahoma violated its own guidelines by failing to collect earnings statements from 12 football players who worked at the dealership, and as a result did not detect NCAA rules violations.
Strangely enough, both sides are right. Welcome to the wacky world that is the NCAA ...
Former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer says he's moved on. He doesn't dwell on his decision that stunned Sooner nation and crippled the football program 20 years ago Thursday when he suddenly resigned.
