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On Friday, the NCAA determined that the Oklahoma State University athletic department violated NCAA policies by not following its own drug testing policy and allowed a student group to participate in hosting prospects, according to a decision issued by a Division I Committee on Infractions panel.

The school was penalized with one year of probation, $8,500 in fines, suspension of the Orange Pride student group program and university-imposed recruiting restrictions.

This case stemmed from a series of articles published in Sports Illustrated stating various claims of alleged NCAA violations. According to the NCAA report, more than 50,000 emails and other documents were reviewed and nearly 90 interviews were conducted. Many of the allegations from the series of articles were unfounded, but the investigation concluded that the university violated its drug testing policy and committed recruiting violations.

@RockChalkinTexas

Is that the basketball or football programs or both? "Athletic Department" would appear to indicate both; not a big deal for basketball since they are at best middle of the pack and Ford is close to being replaced, but the football program is big and a national contender.

@JayHawkFanToo The picture embedded in the article was of Gundy with the caption:

Mike Gundy's program will be on probation for one year but will not lose any scholarships or face a postseason ban.

Kevin Jairaj/USA TODAY Sports

NOT sure why the article didn't differentiate that it was football. Fining Boone Pickens only $8,500? Why bother. He burns through that in one night probably.

@RockChalkinTexas Man, $8500 per night? That's a whole lotta Viagra...

@ralster You sir have a dirty mind. :-) I was thinking more along the lines of a fine 10 course meal with him buying the most expensive wine in the establishment.

@RockChalkinTexas does he know you are a lady?

@RockChalkinTexas let old T. Boone Pickens get that 8,500 dollar fine with the spare change in his wallet.

Boone may just buy the NCAA.

There is no reason it cannot be put up for sale.

And frankly, at this point, with it apparently gone weak in the investigative knees due apparently to the chill of the OBannon case, maybe the best antidote for the PetroShoeCo-agent complex jockeying would be for them to have to deal with Boone.

Give Boone five years in control of the NCAA and he would own both Nike AND adidas, and there wouldn't be any more of these god awful adidas uniforms anymore, or anymore asymmetric talent distributions.

And all the arenas would run off wind power electricity.

And in very short order he would take over ESPN and CBS Sports and probably turn on Big Gaming and have them begging not to be raided and their assets sold off. Hell, Boone would wring all the fat out of Big Gaming. No more casinos and all that unnecessary monument building shizz. He would stream line big gaming to some CPUs and lot of subsurface storage in some desert somewhere, and then call all the intel organizations and all the narco-trafficers in and say something like, "Boys, the days of laundering black a dirty monies in sports betting for free are over. I am your banker now. And when we get this streamlined its going to cost you less than before and you're going to launder more because of it."

Just kidding. The above is only joking around.

And glad the Pokes basketball caught a break.

Rock Chalk!