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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 688730, member: 338"]
I expected the compliance office to tell me what their official policy was.  How they interpreted the NCAA rules, what they were telling the coaches and (presumably) boosters.  That was the whole point of this thread, because I saw a disconnect between what was (presumably - I didn't know) the stated policy, and what they were allowing to happen.
 
What I think some have missed is that I am not (in general) saying anything about the wisdom of the rules.  The original line of inquiry was only dealing with what is on the NCAA rulebooks.  I don't care what is happening elsewhere.  I recognize that this is an area about which there is genuine uncertainty, but the rules seem pretty cut and dried to me as they exist now, so your comment "Welcome to big boy football" is exactly what worries me.  Because it translates as, "It may be against the rules, but everyone else is doing it, and finally we are too."  That was not a place I ever wanted to see our program go.
 
It's a minor issue, according to many here.  Compared to paying players and such, it is, sure.  But if our personnel are willing to transgress on this issue, we have to trust that they are good enough men not to break the big rules as well.  If we could pay players the way they do in the SEC and get away with it, would you want us to do that as well, to punch our ticket to "big boy football?"
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