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Tom Osborne comments on Sports Nightly, courtesy of Rivals....
"This is really a failure to monitor, because we should've monitored this situation more closely," Osborne said on the Husker Sports Network. "Frankly we've been focusing a lot on agents. We've been focusing a lot on boosters possibly providing some extra benefit. We've been focusing on Facebook and Twitter and things that could be used that are inappropriate. We've been focusing on academic fraud. When you do all of those things sometimes you don't think about the book store jumping up and biting you."
Another point Osborne wanted to make on Tuesday is that Husker student athletes received absolutely no extra monetary benefit by getting the text books.
Unlike normal students at the University, athletes on scholarship aren't allowed to keep the money they receive from the book store at the end of the year when they sell their text books back.
"When a student athlete turns those books back in, the money does not go back to the student athlete," Osborne said. "The money goes back to the athletic department directly.
"The money (to buy the books) comes from the athletic department and whatever is left at the end goes back to the athletic department. So in no case did a student athlete pocket any money. There was no evidence that anyone deliberately violated the rules, either student athletes or the book store."
The NCAA is expected to review Nebraska's report in October. Osborne doesn't expect anything to happen to the 230 student athletes involved in the text book violation. He said the blame needs to be placed towards the athletic department themselves for a failure to properly monitor.
"We are doing the best we can to say we were wrong, we are sorry and we think we've taken appropriate action," Osborne said. "At this point we have to turn the report over to the NCAA infractions committee and they probably won't be able to get to it until October. We won't know for sure what the final disposition of this case may be, but at this point we've done all that we've can.
"It is what it is and we'll take whatever shot we get and do the best we can with it."
"This is really a failure to monitor, because we should've monitored this situation more closely," Osborne said on the Husker Sports Network. "Frankly we've been focusing a lot on agents. We've been focusing a lot on boosters possibly providing some extra benefit. We've been focusing on Facebook and Twitter and things that could be used that are inappropriate. We've been focusing on academic fraud. When you do all of those things sometimes you don't think about the book store jumping up and biting you."
Another point Osborne wanted to make on Tuesday is that Husker student athletes received absolutely no extra monetary benefit by getting the text books.
Unlike normal students at the University, athletes on scholarship aren't allowed to keep the money they receive from the book store at the end of the year when they sell their text books back.
"When a student athlete turns those books back in, the money does not go back to the student athlete," Osborne said. "The money goes back to the athletic department directly.
"The money (to buy the books) comes from the athletic department and whatever is left at the end goes back to the athletic department. So in no case did a student athlete pocket any money. There was no evidence that anyone deliberately violated the rules, either student athletes or the book store."
The NCAA is expected to review Nebraska's report in October. Osborne doesn't expect anything to happen to the 230 student athletes involved in the text book violation. He said the blame needs to be placed towards the athletic department themselves for a failure to properly monitor.
"We are doing the best we can to say we were wrong, we are sorry and we think we've taken appropriate action," Osborne said. "At this point we have to turn the report over to the NCAA infractions committee and they probably won't be able to get to it until October. We won't know for sure what the final disposition of this case may be, but at this point we've done all that we've can.
"It is what it is and we'll take whatever shot we get and do the best we can with it."
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