TOPIC: NCAA Penalties

There is not as many interesting things to report from the NCAA's Regional Rules Seminar here in Denver. A lot of it is very technical, not even immediately useful to someone who is no longer working on a campus. But … [Read More]

Johnnie Cole, former head football coach at Texas Southern, was unsuccessful in his appeal of his three-year show-cause order that came from Texas Southern's 2012 major infractions case. Cole appealed both the show-cause penalty and the findings that he failed … [Read More]

Penn State received many penalties from the NCAA last summer. The three penalties that affect Penn State’s on-field performance each run for four years. But all three cover a different four years: Postseason Ban: 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 Initial Counter … [Read More]

UCF Wins Appeal, Eligible for Bowl in 2013 Central Florida continued a rare winning streak for schools in front of the Committee on Infractions. The university successfully appealed the football team's postseason ban from its 2012 major infractions case. The … [Read More]

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will finish four years of NCAA probation on Monday for a wide-ranging of violations that mostly started and ended with a failure to report violations. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times had a breakdown of the changes that the … [Read More]

Saint Mary’s was sanctioned by the NCAA today for a host of major violations. The violations centered around the recruitment of an international prospect in 2009 as well as training activities involving outside consultants in the summers of 2009–2010. On … [Read More]

The NCAA fired back at the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is already suing the NCAA to have the Penn State sanctions overturned, with a lawsuit that challenges a proposed law in Pennsylvania which would require the NCAA to spend PSU’s … [Read More]

The NCAA today released the public report of a major infractions case involving the Southern Mississippi men’s tennis program. The case involved just the one team and mostly centered around one athlete on the team, but resulted in a charge … [Read More]

ESPN’s Josh Moyer has an excellent article about Penn State’s walk-on program, or “run-on” program as head coach Bill O’Brien has dubbed it. The walk-ons have taken on an increased importance with the sanctions levied against Penn State and the … [Read More]