ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz took to Twitter on Thursday to express his frustration with University of Oregon economics Professor Bill Harbaugh during an Intercollegiate Athletic Committee meeting, which occurred earlier in the day.

People are finally calling Bill Harbaugh of @uomatters on his bullshit in this IAC meeting

— Sam Dotters-Katz (@SamDottersKatz) February 28, 2014

Sources inside the meetings say that the IAC, which is a subcommittee of the UO faculty senate, has struggled to be an effective liaison between the athletic department and the university because of infighting and distrust. As the athletic department’s national profile has grown in recent years, so too have concerns over its rapid growth and administrative oversight. The athletic department meets with the faculty through the IAC to keep the faculty senate in the loop on its budget status and internal decisions.

Dotters-Katz also tweeted some insight into a question posed within the IAC during the meeting: whether it was broken, and why. The second-term president tweeted that the answer was “Yes, Bill Harbaugh.”

UO Matters, a blog that Harbaugh founded, runs and often generates controversy with, retweeted Dotters-Katz.

“My account is that a large majority of the folks said we don’t have a working committee because we don’t have a working relationship with the athletics,” Dotters-Katz said over the phone on Friday afternoon. “We are an advisory committee — we can’t subpoena them. We request their presence, but there’s no trust. There’s no communication because there’s no trust and there’s no trust because of Bill Harbaugh.”

Harbaugh says that athletic department officials and members of the IAC are trying to cover themselves from investigation.

“The athletic department has a lot of stuff to hide,” Harbaugh said. “And they’re trying to argue that the IAC is dysfunctional to make it easier for them to hide bad stuff.”

Harbaugh takes pride in muckracking and fact-checking many of the administration’s and athletic department’s claims. He does so through UO Matters, primarily through the acquisition of public records and attending meetings, which he’ll often live blog. This has won him awards for defending free speech from the Society of Professional Journalists. His efforts have also landed him on the receiving end of scathing emails calling his ethics into question and accusing him of defamation.

IAC Chairman Rob Illig will deliver a report on the Jaqua Center for the March 12 faculty senate meeting. The senate is also expected to hear a resolution sponsored by Harbaugh to end payments from the university at large to the athletic department for academic support for student-athletes.