Today we look at one from the Be Careful What You Ask For Department.

Basketball coach Gib Arnold has made the only public statements regarding the NCAA’s investigation of his University of Hawaii program. On a radio show recently, he admitted "a mistake" was made, but UH has nothing to hide and he invited a thorough search that would vindicate the Rainbow Warriors as spotlessly clean.

Bravo for the bravado, and hopefully it’s true. But all I know is if the IRS just wants a closer look at my moving receipts, I’m not gonna invite them to conduct a full-fledged audit.

There’s been precious little solid information on this, other than the investigator has come and gone. I’m assuming one "investigator," although for some reason a lot of people say "investigators," as if the NCAA sent a team out here … if it did, look out below. More resources invested means they’ve got to find something.

We can also report that a source says not to expect resolution for a "couple of months."

"Generally in a situation of this nature they will come in, do their interviews and then analyze it when they get back."

Too bad.

I was hoping the NCAA would milk this, with a team of seven sun-burned staffers deciding to also investigate several expensive dinners at five-star restaurants, as well as the bottom of a few mai tai glasses, all while setting up shop for a month at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. (Hey, someone’s got to make up for it if the NFL doesn’t bring the Pro Bowl back.)

Then — especially if the best possible resolution for UH comes about, and it is determined the Brandyn Akana situation was handled adequately from within — an investigation of the investigators could be launched, hastening the ultimate demise of the most reviled and despised four-letter word in all of sports.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way in the real world, or even in the bizarro land of college sports, where the main labor sources for a multi-billion-dollar industry have to threaten to unionize to try to get what amounts to workers’ comp and long-term disability insurance.

The NCAA is often ridiculed as a farcical, hypocritical joke of an organization, with its attempts at policing college sports wildly inconsistent and often laughable. You can get away with some pretty bad stuff while they’re making sure a student-athlete isn’t eating a bagel with the wrong kind of topping, or a couple of offensive linemen scarf too much pasta at a graduation event.

In all fairness, Oklahoma actually self-reported the latter, with three athletes donating $5 each to charity for having a second serving valued at $3.83.

"While we appreciate Oklahoma’s commitment, there are no NCAA rules regarding portion sizes, and any penalties were determined by the university," the NCAA said in a statement.

UH also self-reported in this instance. Changing a monetary amount on a document with someone else’s signature on it — even if it didn’t get out of the department — might be viewed as a little more serious matter. Or a lot, depending what else is discovered. Out of the NCAA’s jurisdiction, you say? Ask Penn State about that one.

Thing is, you can never truly predict an outcome, reasonable or otherwise, with the NCAA.

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