Gragg sets goals for athletics department

Integrity. Academic success. Competitiveness. Fiscal integrity and fundraising. Student athlete development and integration.

These were some of the goals laid out by Eastern Michigan University Athletics Director Derrick Gragg for 2006-07 during a meeting of the Board of Regents' Athletic Advisory Committee Sept. 19.

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Integrity. "This is very important. I would rather lose and be unsuccessful losing the right way than winning the wrong way," Gragg said. "I've been at other programs where that was not done. These things can linger."

Gragg pointed to recent reports that surfaced in which former USC star running back Reggie Bush, now of the New Orleans Saints, had dealings with a sports agent who allowed Bush's parents to live rent-free in a Spring Valley, Calif., home the agent owns. In return, the agent allegedly tried to market Bush.

I do not want to sit before one of the NCAA's Infractions committees," Gragg said.

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