As a private institution not subject to open records laws, details about the NCAA case against Miami will not be a matter of public record as quickly and as easily as in other recent cases. With no legal obligation to release the Notice of Allegations and Miami not intending to any time soon, we are […]
Joel Bauman, a wrestler for Minnesota, is quitting the sport to pursue his music career which the NCAA says he cannot do in tandem with being a student-athlete: “I feel like I have a calling,” Bauman said. “I feel like I was put here to make the world a better place. My calling is bigger […]
The Las Cruces Sun-News did a relatively standard profile of New Mexico State’s compliance office. But within the Sun-News profile was a discussion about this secondary violation: Doña Ana County Detention records show the assistant, Paul Weir, made the $500 payment to bail [Tyrone] Watson, a former starter he recruited to NMSU five years ago. […]
Tennessee reported 10 secondary violations over the past six months, and posted 20 including some that had already been reported to their website. It’s the normal grab-bag of accidental tweets here, a little extra benefit there, and a basketball tryout violation which would have been fine if it had occurred in April rather than September. […]
Occidental College, a Division III school near Los Angeles, received a charge of failure to monitor among other major violations. The violations arose out of impermissible benefits and recruiting by the women’s volleyball program and impermissible recruiting by the head football coach. The head volleyball coach arranged for three of his athletes to work with […]
Clemson University released details about the violations which lead to the resignation of track and field director Lawrence Johnson. Clemson is waiting for the NCAA to finish its own investigation, but has argued in its self-report that the violations were secondary. The violations included: Allowing a student-athlete who had exhausted his eligibility to compete in […]
For a long time, I’ve been bearish on the likelihood of the NCAA punishing the University of North Carolina for bogus/no-show classes involving student-athletes for a couple of reasons. First, almost the exact same behavior at Michigan and Auburn never lead to any NCAA violations or penalties. And second, the NCAA membership defeated a proposal […]
The Miami herald is reporting that the delivery of the NCAA’s formal Notice of Allegations against Miami is imminent, according to sources close to the case. This comes on the heels of an Associated Press report that the NCAA will discuss specific violations with individuals involved in the case on Monday. There is so much […]