Every year for nearly a decade, Arizona State president Michael Crow made a habit of calling all the head coaches and their specific athletic department bosses together for a meeting. Some years it was held in ASU’s massive football team room.
Crow delivered some version of the same theme in his address: If you want to guarantee ending your employment here, break the rules. Winning is important, but compliance is the most important thing. If you have to prioritize the two, you should prioritize following the rules.
Crow would tell the dog-eared story of Arizona State baseball’s major infractions case from earlier in his tenure, when the NCAA hammered ASU baseball in 2010 and gave the school the infamous distinction of having the most major NCAA violations for a Power Five school.