Ball State makes it an absolute priority to comply with all NCAA rules, and our student-athletes understand we take this very seriously. Our primary focus right now is ensuring that students going into competition are eligible to play. |
Every institution is responsible for creating an environment that's compliant, and if you have holes in that - which this is - then you're susceptible to evaluation by others. We submitted what we've found to the conference office, we've submitted to the NCAA, so we've opened up everything for everyone to take a look at. |
That's true of all the teams we have. We are investing more in football, and we want to have a better result in football. |
We are working as quickly as we can to move ahead on their recommendations. |
We need to put all of that over a timeline and get in front of donors to continue to talk about wanting to be a highly competitive Division I-A program, and tell them this is what it takes to be successful and continue to grow. |
We will need to submit another report to the NCAA and keep them informed on what we're doing so they can advise us. |
We're trying to change the image of the university with our football structure, and a lot of people believe in that. But we aren't talking to a lot of basketball fans and baseball fans and people who would support other sports as well. I want to get to an enhanced facility improvement plan to help all of our teams. |