Failure to do so will be cause for further sanction, up to and including termination from the position of basketball coach. A task force will be established to develop policies for appropriate behavior for all coaches, athletic department employees, and student-athletes and for sanctions for not following these policies. The task force will make its recommendations on these policies to the athletics committee, the president and, for approval, to the Trustees of Indiana University. I believe the media here today have received a copy of this May 15 handout. In recent days it has been reported that our zero tolerance guidelines are unclear or ill-formed.
Nothing can be further from the truth.
As I just reiterated, we specified exactly what zero tolerance is at the May 15 press conference. Those are the guidelines which Coach Knight has been required to abide by in the last four months. The Code of Athletic Conduct Commission is developing a code of conduct for all student-athletes, coaches, and administrators on all our campuses. This commission will report its findings to our University Board of Trustees this Friday at its regularly scheduled meeting. But do not confuse the two.