NCAA Acts Swiftly to Penalize...

[tornado]

Missouri Western played an ineligible player, and this is a really, really bad thing...
obviously way worse than paying tens of thousands of dollars to cheat and land the top recruits, and change their grades and lie about eligibility,
so they get nailed hard......with:
* Public reprimand and censure.
* Two years of probation (July 8, 2009 to July 7, 2011).
* The university shall vacate all wins in which the student-athlete competed while ineligible. The vacation shall apply to all regular-season, and postseason conference or NCAA championship play. The student-athlete’s individual records shall be vacated as well. Further, the university’s records regarding women’s basketball, as well as the record of the head coach at the time the vacated contests were played, will be reconfigured. This vacation will be recorded in all publications in which women’s basketball records for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons are reported, including media guides, recruiting material, electronic media and institutional and NCAA archives. Any public reference to these vacated contests should be removed from the athletics department stationary, banners displayed in public areas and any other forum in which they may appear. This vacation also applies to any institution that employs the former head coach in the future.
* Reduction in and women’s basketball athletics scholarships by one to nine during the 2009-10 academic year.
* The university may not recruit any international student-athletes in women’s basketball from June 24, 2008, through June 23, 2010.
* The university shall return its 2006-07 conference championship trophy to the conference office.

http://ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=/ncaa/ncaa/ncaa+news/ncaa+news+online/2009/division+ii/missouri+western+penalized+in+womens+basketball_07_09_09_ncaa_news

http://ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=/ncaa/ncaa/media+and+events/press+room/news+release+archive/2009/infractions/20090708+d2+coi+rls+mo+western+state

this is worse penalties that Alabama got for far greater infractions.....

[tornado]

Oklahoma State answers to the NCAA--

http://www.newsok.com/osu-has-date-with-ncaa-regarding-failure-to-monitor-violation/article/3383924?custom_click=pod_headline_college-sports

They got caught with one of their athletes getting a free car, cash, and other freebies while living with a well-wishing family!!
(total impermissible gifts possibly exceeded $5000)
They knew about the gifts and still let the kid play.....
They are being charged with failure to monitor...
...and using the same argument that NCAA did vs. Bradley...then Oklahoma State is a multiple and repeat offender (they've had NUMEROUS violations over the years and were nailed in 1992 by NCAA, while for BU it was trivial stuff way back in the mid-80's).

http://www.newsok.com/osu-has-date-with-ncaa-regarding-failure-to-monitor-violation/article/3383924?custom_click=pod_headline_college-sports

http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?subjectid=93&articleid=20090709_233_B1_OnAugO418234

[tornado]

In another important decision that cleans up major college athletics...

The NCAA handed down major penalties against...Southern Vermont!!

Here are their alleged violations...
--some athletes, although eligible, actually competed before finishing the paperwork to certify them!! whoa...
--a couple were subsequently deemed ineligible..kinda like Derrick Rose!
--and a couple of the members of the rugby team got bad grades!
--and there is an allegation that sounds reminiscent of the Dick Versace era..
that one athlete "refused to cooperate in the investigation" !!!!


Here are their penalties..............
Public reprimand and censure.
Two years of probation from Sept. 23, 2009, through Sept. 22, 2011.

Vacation of all wins in which the following student-athletes competed while
ineligible: a) the two women’s rugby student-athletes b) two men’s soccer
student-athletes who were allowed to compete with deficient grade point
averages. Also, the institution shall vacate all participation in NCAA post-
season competition by teams on which ineligible student-athletes competed.
Further, the individual performance of a women’s cross country student-
athlete who competed in a meet with a deficient grade-point average shall
also be vacated. In addition, the institution shall reconfigure the records of
the head coaches in the affected sports to reflect the vacated
performances, and the vacated records/results shall be included in all
publications in which athletic performances are referenced. Further details of
vacation penalties are included in the public report.

A four-year show-cause order for one former head coach from Sept. 23, 2009
through Sept. 22, 2013.
(whoa....was the coach at Memphis given this kind of penalty????)

Preclusion from postseason competition for the women’s rugby program for
the 2009-10 academic year.

The institution’s athletics department advisory committee shall send at least
two members of the committee each year to an NCAA Regional Rules Seminar.
The faculty athletics representative, the director of athletics and the
compliance coordinator shall also attend an NCAA Regional Rules Seminar
during the term of probation.

The institution has indicated that it will not petition for the reinstatement of
eligibility for either women’s rugby student-athlete. Should the institution
subsequently decide to seek reinstatement for either of the student-athletes,
the committee reserves the right to revisit the penalties imposed in this case.

http://ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=/ncaa/ncaa/media+and+events/press+room/news+release+archive/2009/infractions/20090923+d3+coi+southern+vermont+college

as I have said again and again....show me one BCS school that gets the same penalties that these little guys get, for similar violations...

[electricmayhem]

tornado -- I know you aren't surprised, but it sounds like it. Like in any organization in the country, the bigs get away with a lot more than the littles because the littles don't mean as much to the overall success... at least that's the viewpoint from the top.

[tornado]

I am not surprised, it is something I have been saying for years, but the big guys seem to get away with murder..literally

[tornado]

Another successful investigation and punitive action by the NCAA...

they swooped down on tiny St. Leo's and nailed them with penalties that were heavier than those handed to Indiana for all their cheating, and it didn't take even 10% of the time it has already taken in the USC case.

They used ineligible athletes and paid a grand total of about $800 of the athletes expenses..(shoes, equipment..)..
and the NCAA was only notified of the violations last spring...

St. Leo's got--
-- 2 yrs probation, elimination from championship, no off campus recruiting for a year, no cross country athlete can compete as an individual, university was fined, and BOTH the previous head coach and the current coach were given a 2 year show cause penalty...

good job NCAA, way to nail 'em...
but what about Tim Floyd?? Why was IU given little penalty? How about all those violations at Kansas...occurring even while they're on probation?
What about Derrick Rose' fraudulent test scores?
Why were Darrell Arthur's fraudulent grades overlooked? and Jerry Wainwright's illegal contact, and others?

[tornado]

NCAA is working overtime and have reviewed and issued a final ruling on the horrible violations at
"University of the Incarnate Word"!!!!

The evidence was slim and was quickly and strongly refuted...but that didn't dispel the ever-vigilant NCAA in hammering this tiny school
for such serious violations as...
free medicine when they had pain....seriously the biggest charge in this whole case was that an assistant "provided impermissible extra benefits to eight student-athletes by giving them prescription medicine"
(an anti-inflammatory pain medicine similar to what's readily available over the counter, but he used the prescription strength)

that's about it...there were a few other allegations of some small dollar extra benefits, but NCAA really wanted to nail these guys so they mainly stayed with the free medicine charges!!
So it looks like after months of the NCAA digging to nail this renegade program, they finally succeeded!!

[AZ BU Fan]

If our Congress has time to waste with an investigation/legislation re the NCAA and BCS Bowl/Playoff issue, why not ask Rep Schrock to introduce legislation investigating the NCAA's re anti trust, and/or, discrimination against non BCS conferences/teams re MBB NCAA Tournament Selection, sanctions/penalities to lessor conference teams, corruption at major college/conference men's basketball programs...

Women were able to get equal treatment by the NCAA, why not smaller men's conferences?

T, can you organize a petition for Forum members to sign?

[tornado]

I am occasionally hard on NCAA, but 99% of what they do and what they stand for is good, and I am appreciative of it...

The only area that bugs me is the anti-mid-major bias, which is quite obviously linked with which schools produce the big time revenue to NCAA.
Thus the big boys (BCS schools) get favored bids, seeding, and other perks, and get by easy when it comes to investigations and penalties.

But if there's an area of life that I would still side with the NCAA, it's clearly giving the federal government even more power to wastefully check into what this private organization is doing.
The feds have enough to do that they aren't getting done, so leave hands off NCAA.