Navigating the Bylaw Maze in NCAA Major-Infractions Cases

An unfamiliar number appears on your caller ID at work. After hanging up, you will wish the caller had been merely an IRS agent informing you of a personal audit. Instead, it is much worse. You are an employee of a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) member institution, and the call is from ESPN seeking an immediate response to an allegation of a major infraction of NCAA rules. If you have never been here before, you are about to enter an unfamiliar arena where the stakes are high and the public scrutiny intense