Great news for UH and the men's basketball coaches and players!  The UH administration and particularly the legal staff deserve congratulations for their decision to appeal and for making a compelling case to reduce the penalties.

Reading the "Infractions Decision" report issued by the Committee on Infractions, it becomes apparent why the COI decision took so long.  They must have been looking for a way to save face after being told to reconsider the case by the Infractions Appeals Committee, and they came up with a doozy!  Rather than admitting their original decision was wrong, the COI determined that the IAC taking over a year to consider UH's appeal was a "mitigating factor" in UH's favor, and on that basis the COI reclassified UH's violations from "Level II - Aggravated" to "Level II - Standard", which in turn gave them the cover they needed to reduce the penalties.

In short, instead of admitting any error, the COI let UH off the hook while blaming the IAC.  Ah, politics...