by the NCAA, are multi-year rates based on the rates from the 2009-10, 2010- 11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.

Some programs that scored below the 930 benchmark face APR penalties in addition to or in lieu of the postseason ban. Oklahoma State's football program is one of 42 teams facing Level One penalties, which are practice restrictions. An Oklahoma State spokesman said the Cowboys will lose two hours of practice time per week in season. The Cowboys also must limit their practices to a five-day window each week. Oklahoma State football posted a multi-year APR of 929.41.

The Cowboys avoided a postseason ban, however, because its two-year APR average is 943.54.

"We are taking steps to ensure that our APR numbers improve moving forward," Mike Holder, Oklahoma State's athletics director,during desperate times of abuse, neglect and crisis,” according to its website.

The Hills’ “opened their home and hearts to dozens of foster children who were homeless and in need of temporary housing,” the web site says.

The ranch is named for the Hills’ son, Timothy, whose dream was to create a home for children who were homeless and in need of temporary housing, but who was killed at the age of 13 when he was hit by a truck while riding his bike in 1972.