Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork essentially confirmed to Hugh Kellenberger of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger that Ole Miss is treating the ongoing women’s basketball investigation as a major violation: “There’ll be a formal notice of allegations from the NCAA that will come to us when the investigation is completed and then there’ll be a process […]
Former Texas Tech head men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie was fired for exceeding NCAA limits on practice activities (among other things). Emails released by Texas Tech show the bulk of the violations occurred over two days: The school’s investigation found that on the weekend of Oct. 29-30, 2011, the team practiced for 7 hours, 15 […]
Ole Miss has fired two members of the women’s basketball staff and placed the head coach on administrative leave following violations that the school and NCAA are now looking deeper into. According to the school, the violations involve “impermissible recruiting contacts and academic misconduct.” The two fired staff members, husband and wife Kenya and Michael […]
Comments like this in reports about NCAA investigations are always interesting: A month ago, people in and around the UCLA basketball program expected a quick end to the NCAA investigation of freshman Kyle Anderson. Who were these people “in and around” the UCLA basketball program? Were they the coaches and basketball staff, who always expect […]
Oklahoma State men’s basketball student-athlete Jean-Paul Olukemi has just one semester of college basketball eligibility left before his five-year clock runs out. The reason is a mix-up back in his prep school days: After Stoneridge Preparatory closed its doors midway through the year, the school’s coaches suggested Olukemi and his teammates take classes at nearby […]
Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel and Thayer Evans have a cover story on Tyrann Mathieu, who was dismissed from LSU’s football team but may return next year. But there are potential NCAA violations that may stand in his way: Several of the Era Nation videos promote events at a Baton Rouge club called The Palace. One […]
Steve Berkowitz of USA Today broke the story that the NCAA’s net assets exceeded $500 million for the first time. This led to the predictable outrage that the NCAA is sitting on $500 million while athletes are starving. Obviously the NCAA cannot liquidate and distribute all $500 million in net assets since that would mean […]
It’s hard for anyone around college athletics to remember that at one point, there was a true offseason. As it, it was impermissible for coaches to work with athletes on anything outside of conditioning unless it was during a sport’s season. Now with offseason skill instruction, two hours per week of full practice and now […]
The NCAA has acted quickly to respond to the fervor over the a ban on a use of filters like those in Instagram in on photos used in recruiting emails. The NCAA posted this to their website: “There is no NCAA ban of Instagram. Schools just can’t alter the content of photos – and to […]
Christian Wright, who was heading into his 22nd season as head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Utah State was fired due to repeated NCAA violations, according to athletic director Scott Barnes. The violations involve private lesson to recruits: Though the Athletics Department did not release further details on the alleged NCAA violations, former Utah […]