Despite the severity of an NCAA "notice of allegations" charging seven high-level violations by the University of Hawaii, Manoa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman said Saturday he has no bones to pick with the organization.
"We’ve been very cooperative with them and they’ve been very cooperative with us, so we have no complaints about the NCAA and the way they’ve handled this," Bley-Vroman said.
UH received the 42-page notice Friday afternoon and released a redacted copy Saturday.
Three of the allegations were listed as Level I, the most severe of the four levels the NCAA uses to classify infractions of its rules. Four were listed at Level II.
"I think the report pretty much speaks for itself," Bley-Vroman said.
"They’ve been very clear, very detailed, so I don’t think I have much more to add," he said. "I think the allegations were well stated."
He said it was UH’s obligation to self-report any possible infractions.
"It is not our judgment call to decide what is a trivial violation and what is an important one."
Bley-Vroman said, "We’ve tried very hard to be extremely cooperative with the NCAA throughout, I think they recognized that. It is clear from the report that they understand that we take our responsibility seriously here, so I’m pretty satisfied with the way that we’ve dealt with the NCAA. We haven’t tried to cover up anything, we haven’t tried to conceal anything."
Bley-Vroman lauded the work of his compliance staff saying, "We have a good compliance system, a very good compliance officer. The NCAA recognized the excellence of our compliance operation. What we need is a coaching staff that share those values and can help the compliance staff and administration move forward."