Oklahoma Football Tracks Voluntary Workouts
The OU football team has been required to provide football players with one week off from countable athletically related activities this spring for secondary violations in the program. The biggest issue that seems to have resulted in this penalty is that several coaches were asking players for reports on voluntary lifting or practice sessions resulting in exceeding the 8 hour a week limit for out of season CARA activities. It appears another coach may have been receiving reports on the practice sessions from a strength & conditioning coach, which would also be a violation. Please remember that strength coaches may conduct voluntary workouts, but may not provide reports to the coaches on either attendance or performance at those sessions. While a week off from practice activities may seem harsh for a secondary violation, please remember that exceeding the weekly limit caries a prescribed two for one penalty. Since they are in their eight hour per week timeframe, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the practice limit was exceeded by four hours.
The article also talks about several other secondary infractions that may have occurred including exceeding the phone call limits to PSA's and texting PSA's who have not yet signed NLI's.
