UConn's compliance unit had one person. One!

The more details that come out during this investigation into the UConn basketball program, the uglier the black eye gets.

The latest comes from the Hartford Courant:

School officials also failed to mention what probably will be a key defense for former director of basketball operations Beau Archibald: During the time of Miles' recruitment, the athletic department had only one person working in its NCAA compliance department, and that person was overseeing more than 20 athletic programs.

In his 40-page response to charges that he lied to investigators about illegal phone calls to Miles, Archibald argues not only that the 113 calls and 181 texts permissible, but that they were authorized by a compliance unit that was so short-staffed it asked for his help in gathering Miles' academic records.

Pittsburgh attorney C. James Zeszutek wrote in Archibald's defense: "In the fall semester of 2007 the University's Athletics Office of Compliance was woefully understaffed" and therefore Archibald was "pressed into service to assist compliance" with the delicate issue of trying to make sure Miles was academically eligible to play.

Let me get this straight. The compliance unit of UConn, a school in the Big East whose basketball team made the Final Four in 2009 and whose football team won the Big East title in 2007, is made up of one person? That person was so overwhelmed that she asked a member of the basketball coaching staff to try and determine a player's eligibility?

Couldn't this have caused those excessive text messages and phone calls? Could Beau Archibald have lost his job because he was trying to do someone else's job? It sounds like a stretch, but it is absolutely plausible. More to the point, the story makes the UConn Athletic's Department look like an absolute mess.

If you are a Husky's fan, the article is absolutely worth the read. And trust me, it isn't good.