programs have as much at stake as any other billion-dollar enterprise; and the associated scandals demonstrate a culture of playing fast and loose with rules and regulations.Compliance doesn't equal security, in football or with utilities. On the gridiron, the University of Oregon demonstrated recently that minimum compliance to keep the school and athletic department out of trouble, with the NCAA was not enough, especially when it found it had committed numerous violations. To address this, the university is proactively thinking ahead and setting the bar higher, announcing it would hold its program accountable to the most stringent standards in the sport, well above what the NCAA mandates. The contract between the university and its new head football coach contains an unusual set of specific provisions related to NCAA rules compliance, including a requirement that he "actively look for red flags of potential violations." Such an exhibit did not exist in any of the three iterations of the previous coach's agreements.
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