I think Lane is just fricking with Sankey

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Duty to Act in Good Faith

Institutional personnel have a duty to act in good faith to comply with this policy. Acts of gamesmanship intended to hide a student-athlete’s true participation status for competitive or strategic reasons are prohibited. Any other conduct that reasonably could be construed as misleading or creating unnecessary confusion regarding a student-athlete’s participation status is likewise prohibited.

An institution must take extra precautions to act in good faith to accurately disclose the status of a high-profile student-athlete (e.g., starting quarterback, leading scorer on the basketball team, or best hitter on the baseball team). Examples of conduct that would violate the duty to act in good faith include, but are not limited to, (1) an institution listed a high-profile student-athlete as Doubtful on the Initial Report (and, in football, listed list him as Doubtful on the Thursday Update and Friday Update and as a Game Time Decision on the Game Day Update) leading up to several consecutive games notwithstanding that the student-athlete continued to play his/her normal role in each game and there was no credible explanation for why the student-athlete was repeatedly listed as Doubtful and a Game Time Decision, (2) an institution listed an unusually large number of student- athletes as a Game Time Decision on the Game Day Update, all such student-athletes played their normal role in the game, and there was no credible explanation for why an unusually large number of student-athletes were listed as a Game Time Decision (instead of Available) on the Game Day Update, and (3) a high-profile student- athlete was listed as Available on every Availability Report leading up to the game and, despite dressing for the game, did not play in the game, and the conference office’s post-game review revealed that the student- athlete’s participation in practices leading up to the game had been severely limited and the coaching staff knew the student-athlete could not participate in the game.

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