This post was written by Director of the NCAA News Gary Brown.

Do you have what it takes to be an athletics administrator with integrity? Test your ethics by taking the following exam. Answer "Fair" or "Foul" to the following seven "situations," then grade yourself against the answers provided at the end.

Situation 1: You're an AD and your baseball team is playing a conference game at home before a crowd of about 70 fans, parents and students. In the sixth inning, the first-base ump calls your runner out when it is apparent that he was safe. Your manager goes out to argue, then asks the first-base ump to confer with the plate umpire. They do and the call stands. Now your manager is really angry and actually wants to get booted. He says to the first-base ump: "This is bull----!" loud enough for everyone in the crowd to hear and does indeed get ejected. Your team trailed at the time but rallies to win the game.

___ Fair
The call was clearly wrong and the manager had every right to argue in that manner. He was trying to fire up his team (which he in fact did) and besides, managers being ejected is part of the baseball culture.

___ Foul
Regardless of whether the umpire made a mistake, the manager has to understand that there are consequences to his actions. The AD should discipline the manager, explaining that his actions don't encourage fans to return for future games.

Situation 2: You're a pep band director at a small school and your musicians travel to your arch rival for a men's and women's basketball doubleheader. You notice that when your players miss a free-throw attempt, the home-team pep band shouts out in unison, "How embarrassing!" much to the enjoyment of the home crowd. Your players don't seem bothered by this but you wonder whether you should approach the home-team band director and discuss whether that's out of line.

___ Fair
You have a right to approach your peer. While it's one thing for the student section to organize cheers, the band is supposed to inspire the crowd by music, not with chants.

___ Foul
Get real. The band is just having a little fun, and they're not even saying anything derisive or profane. The home-team band director would laugh in your face if you say you are bothered by this tongue-in-cheek behavior.

Situation 3: You're an assistant AD in charge of game management for your men's and women's basketball programs and your AD has mentioned that he'd like to promote you to an associate AD when the time is right. It has been a tradition at the men's game for the student section to chant "Da daaa da - Hey! You Suck! ... Da daaa da - Hey! You Suck!" during timeouts. It makes you a little uneasy, but nobody has complained about it. Then you notice that the student section at your women's games - while not as large as at the men's games - starts doing the same cheer. You pay particular attention to this trend, since your women's crowd is more family oriented. You wonder if you should approach your AD about it.

___ Fair
Yes, you should go to the AD - you probably should have done that much earlier than this. If you're bothered by it, odds are others are bothered, too. The students can support their team without deriding the opponents or their fans.

___ Foul
"You suck" isn't even offensive, so no wonder people haven't complained. It's part of this generation's language. You'd be making a mountain out of mole hill if you try to regulate this.

Situation 4: You're a producer for ESPN covering a Division I women's basketball game, and a star player makes a great block and drops an "F" bomb in a show of uncontrolled enthusiasm. It's not only audible, but lip-readers would have no trouble understanding her as well. You wonder whether to show a replay.

___ Fair
You absolutely show a replay, but you don't have the sound on. This was a great play - not calling attention to it would be circumspect.

___ Foul
Even though the guys in the truck want to show the play again, you call it off.

Situation 5: You're a soccer official working the sidelines during a heated NCAA tournament match, and you notice two reserves on the home team bench really giving it to an opponent on the field who has colored his hair green to match his school color. After one of the comments, the green-haired player spits in the duo's direction, causing them to step up their derision and begin making homophobic remarks. You wonder whether you should ask the home-team's assistant coach to tell them to stop.

___ Fair
Yes you should. Soccer already has a reputation for out-of-line behavior, and there's no place in any game for that kind of abuse.

___ Foul
I agree that the behavior is out of line, but bench decorum is not your jurisdiction. That is a team/institution matter. You're there to call the game - stay out of the personal stuff.

Situation 6: You're a college president facing campus-wide budget cuts. Your men's basketball program has steadily improved over time to the point that the team regularly competes for the conference championship. Your coach wants to upgrade the arena by replacing the bleachers with chair-back seating. While expensive, the coach believes it will encourage a broader fan base and thus energize the facility for home games and help the team take that "next step" competitively. However, to afford the upgrade, you may have to eliminate your men's and women's swimming program, which has not been competitive recently.

___ Fair
Investing in a sport that has a likelihood of a healthy return (because of increased fan interest and, in turn, revenue) is a wise choice. While no one wants to cut programs, there's a chance that the funds raised by the basketball upgrade will result in reinstating the swim program with more funding in the future.

___ Foul
Cutting sports should be a last-resort decision. The point of sponsoring athletics is to provide broad-based opportunities and not focus on one or two sports just because of the revenue potential.

Situation 7: You're an associate AD in charge of compliance and you also serve as the athletics department's senior woman administrator. Your institution's men's basketball program has struggled lately but has just hired a young, dynamic male coach who has had success at the high school level but has never led a college program. He's also good friends with the AD. Within the first two weeks, you become aware that he's committed several infractions that you know would be classified as secondary. You also know that the AD knows about the infractions but he hasn't talked with you about them yet.

___ Fair
You confront the AD about the infractions because you don't want to put yourself in jeopardy, and you want to teach the coach all that's necessary to run a clean program.

___ Foul
You let it go, figuring that secondary violations aren't penalized anyway, so why risk a good relationship with a guy who make take your program to new heights. Besides, if the AD doesn't care, why should you?

Answers: (1) Foul; (2) Fair; (3) Fair; (4) Foul; (5) Fair; (6) Foul; (7) Fair.
7 correct answers: You're hired!
6 correct answers: There's hope for you.
5 correct answers: Better go to some NACDA and NACWAA seminars.
4 correct answers: No promotion for you.
3 or fewer: You're fired!