Compliance Department (official thread)

[osugrad21]

DDN

6/13

Archie named OSU compliance director

COLUMBUS | Douglas Archie has been hired at Ohio State University as the director of compliance, according to Director of Athletics Gene Smith.
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<!-- inset --> <!--begintext--> Archie most recently was the associate athletics director of compliance at the University of Utah and previously worked seven years for the NCAA in enforcement services and as a membership services representative.
Prior to his work with the NCAA, he was the assistant athletics director for compliance at the University of North Dakota.
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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

6/13/06

Ohio State hires compliance director from Utah

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Douglas Archie of the University of Utah is Ohio State’s choice to run the rules compliance office for the athletics department, the school announced yesterday.

Archie, a native of Toronto, Ontario, with degrees from Ohio University and Toledo, sees it not only as a chance to move back near his roots but "both personally and professionally, this is a tremendous opportunity with one of the top programs in the country," he said by phone from Utah.

With a background that includes seven years with the NCAA in enforcement and membership services, he will take the place of Heather Lyke-Catalano as associate director for compliance and camps. In a reorganization announced in February by athletics director Gene Smith, Lyke-Catalano was named a full-time administrator for several sports.

She had been extensively involved the past three years in the OSU and NCAA investigations of the men’s basketball, football and women’s basketball programs. It was a time in which men’s basketball incurred several major penalties and coach Jim O’Brien was fired, only for him to turn around and sue the university for wrongful termination and win.

But as Archie pointed out, that episode is pretty much behind OSU. That is unlike when he was hired in 2002 by Utah. The Utes were in the midst of a NCAA inquiry primarily into its men’s basketball program due in part to what were believed to be some lax procedures by his predecessor. Archie went in with a mandate from athletics director Chris Hill.

"It was very important to him that we build a connection with the coaches and re-establish the compliance program and get it back where he wanted it to be," Archie said.

OSU has no such need, he said.

"I don’t know if they are looking for a lot of change," Archie said. "I might tweak some things here or there, but I don’t think they are expecting any big changes."

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[BB73]

The 7 years with the NCAA should be a good background. Gotta wonder, with that name, how many times he'll be confused with the president of the Alumni Association, though.

 

[gregorylee]

The 7 years with the NCAA should be a good background. Gotta wonder, with that name, how many times he'll be confused with the president of the Alumni Association, though.

While reading the first sentence, that is exactly what I thought.

 

[BearBuck27]

I admit, when I read the title on grad's article, I thought tOSU hired a certain two-time Heisman Trophey Winner.

 

[t_BuckeyeScott]

Maybe with Archie around and XRay from the Texas post we could send him back to before Troy Smith took the 500 dollars and now have last years National Championship!!!!

 

[pianobuck46]

Maybe with Archie around and XRay from the Texas post we could send him back to before Troy Smith took the 500 dollars and now have last years National Championship!!!!

Last year is last year.

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State proposes czar on ethics compliance
By Encarnacion Pyle
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday February 9, 2012

A new integrity czar at Ohio State would be given the power to make sure that the school?s watchdogs are asking tough questions and rooting out problems before they erupt, officials said in a Dispatch interview yesterday.

It?s all part of a plan that will be rolled out today.

Campus officials will ask the trustees? Audit and Compliance Committee this afternoon to support a plan that would create a centralized office to uphold ethics throughout the university. The full board of trustees is to vote on the proposal on Friday. So far, it?s unclear how much the office would cost.

Ohio State has been studying how it could revamp its compliance office since summer, after a series of football scandals that resulted in the resignation of head coach Jim Tressel, the departure of quarterback Terrelle Pryor, and stiffer-than-expected penalties by the NCAA.

?It?s moving us to a more-centralized structure with additional checks and balances and new best practices that will land us in a better place than where we currently are,? Robert H. Schottenstein, chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee, told The Dispatch last night.

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/02/09/osu-proposes-czar-on-ethics-compliance.html

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Isn't that what the athletic director should be doing in normal circumstances?

 

[wolves2002]

I think this goes a lot further than just athletic compliance. When the board of trustees first announced the study, I remember reading that health care and research were the two biggest compliance efforts, athletics was the most visible. Auditors have long known that they needed to be independent of the department they were auditing. In most financial institutions, compliance is a separate department. I think where OSU appear to be headed could remove any conflict of interest and improve compliance overall.

Now it still takes good people...

 

[BB73]

SI.com

Trustees approve Ohio State compliance office

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State University trustees have approved the creation of a new office responsible for monitoring compliance with rules and regulations in the wake of its football program's NCAA infractions scandal.

The office is a response to the scandal, which led to the resignation of coach Jim Tressel, but its oversight would apply to numerous departments, including athletics.


The university will begin creating the office over the next six to 12 months.


University Chief Financial Officer Geoff Chatas says a university-wide compliance office would help provide consistency among the university's department-level compliance teams that make sure various regulations are followed.


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[Buckskin86]

Ohio State has ethics monitor in place
Compliance chief will work university-wide to uphold regulations
By Encarnacion Pyle
The Columbus Dispatch Thursday September 20, 2012

OSU?s new chief compliance officer: Gates Garrity-Rokous

Ohio State has selected a General Electric administrator with 17 years of experience in health care and financial services to lead the university-wide compliance office created after last year?s football scandals.

Gates Garrity-Rokous oversaw the development of GE Capital America?s regulatory compliance program. Before that, he worked at a Connecticut law firm advising corporate clients on compliance issues and served as an assistant U.S. attorney and health-care fraud-enforcement officer with the Department of Justice.

He begins at Ohio State on Monday and will be paid $390,000 a year, slightly less than what some Ohio college presidents earn.

Ohio State created the new compliance office in February after a series of football scandals in 2011 that resulted in the resignation of head coach Jim Tressel, the departure of quarterback Terrelle Pryor and stiffer-than-expected penalties from the NCAA.

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/20/osu-has-ethics-monitor-in-place.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Published: 10/3/2012
Report details how OSU has added steps, compliance staff since violations
BY DAVID BRIGGS
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS ? Urban Meyer is not the only one who has revamped the culture of the Ohio State football team this season.

A new 805-page report OSU sent to the NCAA details for the first time the full depths of the scrutiny players ? and area businesses and boosters ? now face because of past violations.

An athletics compliance staff bolstered from five workers to a dozen is leaving little to chance. According to the report reviewed by The Blade, the school nearly tripled its number of rules education sessions, charged a former NCAA investigator with monitoring its highest-profile players, and reached out to 2,000 area businesses ? then employs exhaustive measures to verify the lessons take hold.

Among the safeguards include random audits to ensure current players have not sold or exchanged gear or awards, and license-plate software that allows school officials to determine car ownership.

This week, as the No. 12 Buckeyes prepare to raise their game against Nebraska in a Saturday night showdown at Ohio Stadium, so is the compliance department. Staffers will vet player guests ? only those who have been previously contacted and cleared can gain free admission ? and keep watch for overzealous supporters. To limit ?interaction between boosters and student-athletes,? the school developed a pre-signed card players can hand to fans waiting outside their locker room after games.

Welcome to the Buckeyes? locktight new world.

?They?re everywhere around here,? Meyer said recently of the compliance staff. ?We have all kinds of compliance sessions we have to put them through. There?s not a day go by that we?re not at least addressing it.?

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http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-Sta...-steps-compliance-staff-since-violations.html

OSU Compliance report

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State Buckeyes hope 2 hires will give football program higher level of compliance
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer
November 16, 2012

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Meet the new guy tucked into an office in the heart of the Ohio State football building, ready to answer any compliance questions that a coach might have. And meet the former Buckeye talking to area businesses and showing up for 5 a.m. football workouts to show the players that he's committed.

Meet them and care who they are, even right before Saturday's big game with Wisconsin, because Brad Bertani and Jason Singleton could help Ohio State football win a national championship.

"I don't think they'll invite us up to hold the crystal trophy on the stage after the game," Bertani said. "But if they view us as part of the team, that's a better working relationship."

Staying out of trouble is now as vital to a team's title hopes as covering kickoffs or getting off the field on third down.

The Plain Dealer earlier in the football season requested Ohio State's NCAA violations from mid-April through mid-September, and the school recently provided 27 secondary violations, including six regarding the football team.

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/11/ohio_state_buckeyes_hope_2_hir.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Is checking on players' accounts going too far? Not at Ohio State
Gregg Doyel
By Gregg Doyel | National Columnist
Dec. 13, 2012

If you're going to play football at Ohio State, you're going to need a checking account. Don't insert an NCAA joke here, because this isn't funny.

Ohio State has been burned by NCAA violations over the years, and the Buckeyes aren't fooling around. They're going for complete compliance, and while they will fall short -- everyone falls short -- it won't be for lack of effort. Ambition like this requires an enormous outlay of resources, and the school is outlaying like you've never seen.

Not long ago -- only 15 years -- the school's compliance department wasn't a department, but a single person. Two years ago, when quarterback Terrelle Pryor was breaking NCAA rules and coach Jim Tressel was hiding it, Ohio State was up to seven compliance officials.

Now this football school has more full-time employees on its compliance staff (14) than on Urban Meyer's coaching staff (nine). They walk the players' parking lot, jotting down license-plate numbers. They watch the crowd before and after games, looking for agents or runners.

And then there's the checking accounts.
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This one is going to rub some people the wrong way, but so be it. People love to get upset over stuff like this, Big Brother-ish stuff like seatbelt laws in a car, helmet laws on a motorcycle or smoking bans at a restaurant. If we want to kill ourselves, the government should get out of our way and let it happen!

Cue Mel Gibson in Braveheart: Freedom!

And without question, Ohio State is impinging on its football players' freedom. Invading their privacy. Treating them like rubes.

But here's something else Ohio State is doing:

Ohio State is helping -- itself, obviously, but its players, too.

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http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...yers-accounts-going-too-far-not-at-ohio-state