Texas A.D. DeLoss Dobbs Says School Takes Compliance ’Very Seriously’

While not directly acknowledging Tuesday’s comments made by the wife of a former Longhorns superstar, University of Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Wednesday that his department might be looking into them.

“We take compliance very seriously at Texas,” Dodds said in a statement.

“We have procedures in place that enable our coaches, student-athletes and administrators to make the right choices. We are performing our due diligence as always to make certain there are no outstanding compliance issues.”

Dodds’ representatives emailed his statement a day after Rachel McCoy — the wife of former Longhorns All-American Colt McCoy — called a national radio talk show to discuss problems with boosters and agents.

Rachel McCoy couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday. She did not update her Twitter feed Wednesday, a day after she tweeted that adult boosters should “quit being leeches.” She and Colt McCoy, now the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, temporarily have moved back to Austin because of the NFL lockout.

McCoy’s comments Tuesday went viral after she was an unscheduled, call-in guest of ESPN’s Colin Cowherd. The radio show’s call-in topic concerned the recent problems at Ohio State and Southern California.

McCoy, who has been married to Colt McCoy for 11 months, talked about what kind of offers were made to her husband and his teammates.

However, she never offered specifics during her six-minute interview.

On problems with boosters, described as “grown, adult men,” McCoy said:

“Regularly, it’s just dinner,” she said of the offer of perks. “People in Texas are just being friendly. They don’t mean anything by it at all. They don’t really realize, I don’t think, most of the time that it is a violation.”

She later added: “You can’t expect 19- and 20-year-old kids to say no when they’re offered free stuff in college. It’s silly. We need to make something more set for these adults to hold them accountable.”

She also talked of how agents made possibly improper contact with Longhorns players, adding that her husband ignored them.

“I saw so many of his teammates who just maybe didn’t have that self-control to say no to somebody,” she said on the show. “I know I can’t. It’s not my personality. I don’t want to hurt people’s feelings. It’s hard because you’ve got adults who you respect, who you think will know what’s right and wrong.

“When you have adults offering things, promising the world, we’re taught to go along with that and say yes because that’s the respectful thing to do. It’s interesting to see adults put kids in those positions.”