People have been asking about Auburn’s football recruiting for a long time now, since the news about Cam Newton broke in the middle of the 2010 season. Now it appears those people will get their wish, as Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the NCAA is investigating Auburn’s recent recruitment efforts. The investigation centers around Jovon […]
The NCAA is between a rock and a hard place with the Miami investigation. As the investigation has hit and passed the two-year mark (remember, Miami heard from Shaprio a year before the Yahoo! report was published), everyone is keen to see the case wrapped up. But the enforcement staff has clearly had trouble corroborating […]
Louisiana State University vacated the 2012 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship after it was learned that sprinter Semoy Hackett tested positive for a banned substance. Hackett tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a stimulant found in nasal decongestants. The drug has been banned by many governing bodies and was added to the banned substance list […]
Just two days after becoming bowl eligible, Miami self-imposed a second consecutive postseason ban. Self-imposed postseason bans longer than a year are more or less unprecedented. But the way Miami did it might be unique in the history of NCAA enforcement. Rather than impose a two-year postseason ban straight away, or decide on a penalty […]
Today the NCAA released its report on additional violations in Tennessee’s major infractions case. The bulk of that case original centered around recruiting violations in the men’s basketball program (Bruce Pearl’s barbecue). The addition involves major violations committed with Willie Mack Garza repaid Willie Lyles for the expenses related to Lache Seastrunk’s unofficial visit to […]
Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com published the story of Luke Cothron. After being ruled a nonqualifer but enrolling at UMass anyway, Cothron went back home to Alabama, but was convinced to come to the University of New Orleans and play basketball for a semester. He played six minutes in a game, but shouldn’t have for a […]
Last night the college sports world was set ablaze by this article in the LA Times. The article reports a letter that was received from an attorney who claims she overheard a conversation involving the boyfriend of an NCAA investigator discussing the Shabazz Muhammad case in August and who, based on what he had heard […]
Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill has floated the idea of allowing redshirts to play in a bowl game without burning a season of eligibility. While this is a terrible idea, at least Coach Kill did not hide his true motives behind a smokescreen of “unique participation opportunities for student-athletes”: “You’d like to have it happen, […]
Southeastern Louisiana University and the NCAA have finished a joint investigation and found no evidence that student-athletes were given preferential treatment with their parking tickets: SLU encouraged anyone with information regarding evidence of wrongdoing by any university employee to provide such evidence to authorities. They said the investigations were handled by going through a series […]
Division II University of Alaska-Fairbanks joined the long list of schools with eligibility certification violations over the last few years: According to UAF, the infractions occurred when the institution’s advising and sports eligibility systems failed to alert students who hadn’t earned enough credits or who had switched majors without doing the official paperwork. To compete […]