Uniforms were spurned, teachers called by their first names, class attendance was optional.

The college argued, reasonably, that teachers needed to be able to identify their students for the purposes of class attendance, examination and college admissions.

Class attendance soared - and so did graduation rates.

Ward and his assistants monitored the players' academic performance, enforced class attendance, and placed curfews on perceived troublemakers.

He had violated the school's new class attendance policy for student-athletes.