Both Saint Mary's and its head men's basketball coach Randy Bennett have filed appeals in their major infractions case which was decided in March. Saint Mary's will appeal the loss of two scholarships for two years each as well as a two-year ban on out-of-season skill instruction. But Bennett is going further: Coach Randy Bennett […]
ESPN’s Andy Katz asked the NCAA about the Lance Thomas case. Specifically Katz asked why there was a difference between the Thomas case, where he refused to cooperate with the NCAA’s investigation into his jewelry purchase and Memphis’s 2009 major infractions case where Derrick Rose refused to discuss his potentially fraudulent SAT test. The response […]
An Oregon legislator has introduced a bill which would shift the costs of an NCAA investigation and violation onto coaches. Here is the summary of the bill from Willamette Week: Provides that coach at public university who intentionally or recklessly commits or causes to be committed major violation of rules of National Collegiate Athletic Association […]
Oregon Missed Out on Favorable Ruling First things first, the document drop which Oregon released yesterday is not huge news. The documents mostly add additional detail to Charles Robinson’s report from December that the Committee on Infractions refused to accept the summary disposition agreement between Oregon and the NCAA enforcement staff. Robinson had reported that […]
Iowa State has recommended to the Division I Committee on Infractions that it be placed on probation for two years for phone call violations committed from 2008 to 2011. An extensive audit revealed a smattering of impermissible phone calls and one bigger issue: Iowa State said that out of approximately 750,000 total calls made by […]
On Thursday, Southeastern Louisiana self-reported the most recent in a string of mass ineligibility violations. SLU announced that from 2005–06 to 2009–10, 137 student-athletes were improperly certified, and thus not eligible for competition. Like many of these violations, the problem was not the academic performance of the athletes. The problem was the paperwork. “This was […]
The override period for the proposals adopted by the Board of Directors in January ended today with a total of four proposals being sent back for reconsideration. Along with 13–2 not being adopted, that means 21 of the 26 initial deregulation proposals are finalized. Two proposals, RWG–11–2 and RWG 13–5-A were suspended earlier this week […]
Newly unsealed warrants show how the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office is taking on one of the first major criminal investigations into agent conduct: “Austin stated he received cash from Terry Watson,” an affidavit for an Oct. 23 search warrant states. “Austin made the following statement: ‘Terry Watson was a guy who gave me […]
Jeremy Fowler’s report that Miami will go silent as it prepares its response to the Notice of Allegations includes a way for Miami to potentially stick it to the NCAA: From what I’ve gathered after asking around, Miami will likely use most or all of the 90-day window before formally responding to the NCAA’s Notice […]
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the family of Ereck Plancher is asking an appeals court to take note of Central Florida’s lack of institutional control charge from its 2012 major infractions case in their wrongful suit against UCF. The reason is not to show that UCF was negligent in Plancher’s death, but because of […]