While acknowledging major rules violations in its...

While acknowledging major rules violations in its football and basketball programs, the University of Florida insists that a compliance program in effect since 1984 is working.

“It’s like the IRS (Internal Revenue Service),” school president John V. Lombardi said. “You can’t prevent people from doing the wrong thing.”

Florida acknowledged in a 1,100-page response to an official letter of inquiry from the NCAA that former coaches Galen Hall and Norm Sloan ran afoul of the rules. It denied, however, that infractions occurring from 1985 to 1988 demonstrated a lack of institutional control over the football and basketball programs run by the coaches.