You deleted my statement of a conference rule that is essential to understanding the Coan saga.  The KU “white paper” (Page 2, top of page) documented pertinent conference rules on recruiting: 
 Section 14.f:  “Off-campus trips for prospective students may not be provided or arranged for by a member school, its alumni, or by any other means”.   
 Section 14.g  “Any violation of this section by a member school, alumni, or friends of the institution, will render the individual or individuals concerned ineligible for competition at that institution." 

 The NCAA concluded that Coan was a prospective student who had been treated to an off-campus recruiting trip by a representative of KU.  Therefore, he was ineligible by Section 14g of the conference rules.  The essence of the ensuing controversy is certain conference members attempting to enforce conference rules based on the presumption the NCAA finding should be accepted, and KU resisting by disputing the validity of the NCAA ruling. 

 "Quite frankly", your memory failed or was being selective.  The KU white paper (Page 7, middle of page) states that after the meeting opened with testimony from some of the principles in the controversy, “The faculty representatives then voted 6-2 that the question of Coan’s eligibility would be settled by the vote of a simple majority, 5-3, as had been the case in some other decisions by the conference in the past (emphasis added).”  Thus, there was at least some precedent for the simple majority decision.  The KU white paper also listed all the conference rules regarding votes – there was no rule stating what majority would be required in matters of  rules interpretation.  Therefore, it is not true conference rules were changed to allow the simple majority decision on Coan.  

 The hardest decision for the conference committee was probably on whether they should accept the NCAA finding, or accept as fact the denials of Coan, Adams, and KU.  They went with the NCAA finding.  (That was hard to argue with at the time, since they were member institutions.  It is even harder to argue with today, as Coan’s later admission made it clear the NCAA had gotten it right).  Once they went with the NCAA finding and found KU in violation of 14f, then Coan was automatically ineligible by 14g, and it was then a matter of determining the period he would be ineligible.     

 The voting sequence is documented in Item #1155 of the MVIAA Faculty Representative Committee Meeting Minutes, and the sequence is as I documented earlier in this discussion.  The voting summary that you keep re-inserting is erroneous, even though it was widely reported at that time.  (It appears that many of the contemporary newspaper articles were not based on the official documentation, but rather on some source (presumably in the KU camp) that was feeding spin (or at least erroneous info) to the press.)   

 The decision that Coan would be ineligible for a period of one year starting on the date of the NCAA finding was by a vote of 6-2, constituting a three-fourths majority (KU white paper, page 7, bottom of page).