NCAA Official Defends the Practice of Giving Immunity to Informants
David Berst, director of enforcement for the National Collegiate Athletic Assn., took issue Thursday with statements made by Ron Watson, assistant athletic director at Oklahoma. Watson criticized the NCAA for giving Oklahoma State wide receiver Hart Lee Dykes immunity in exchange for information implicating four schools in recruiting violations.
“If you want to find out what really happened, you have to have limited immunity,” Berst told the Tulsa Tribune. “Without limited immunity we couldn’t find out a lot of what happens and wouldn’t be able to penalize a lot of institutions that are cheating.”
Berst noted that an unidentified Oklahoma player also had received immunity for testifying about the Sooner football program.
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