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The NCAA announced that Seton Hall was guilty of impermissible contacts with a player at another school, and punishment was handed down today.
https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources...sible-contacts
In summary, an associate head coach at Seton Hall made 154 phone calls with the mother of a player at another school for the purposes of trying to recruit the player to transfer, while the player was an enrolled scholarship player at the other school. The 154 illicit phone calls were made without the required written consent of the school's Athletic Director. Seton Hall's head coach admitted he was aware of the illegal phone calls, and did nothing about them while they continued. And the associate head coach did not report the calls to his school's compliance office.
The player and his mother were eventually persuaded and they told his original school he wanted to transfer to Seton Hall but was denied (likely because of the known tampering), and yet the Seton Hall associate coach continued calling the player's mother another 87 more times!
The penalties are relatively minor for the magnitude of times they violated the rules-
Seton Hall released their statement today claiming the hundreds of illegal phone calls were simply "inadvertent", and congratulated themselves for cooperating with the NCAA Infractions investigation.
https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/stat...47741972918272
The Head Coach referred to in this case is Kevin Willard, his associate head coach, who is no longer at Seton Hall, was Shaheen Holloway, and the player in the case is Taurean Thompson, who was at Syracuse while Holloway was at Seton Hall making the hundreds of phone calls to his mother to get him to transfer. He eventually did transfer to Seton Hall in August, 2017.
https://www.app.com/story/sports/col...ty/4201849002/
https://www.app.com/story/sports/col...lls/619664001/
The Seton Hall associate head coach who violated the rules, Shaheen Holloway, is now the head coach at St. Peter's University. He was also penalized mildly. He is currently serving a four-game suspension for his role in the tampering, and in addition, he is prohibited from recruiting for six weeks during the 2019-20 school year.
St. Peter's University also released a similar statement claiming the violations were inadvertent-
Coach Holloway fully cooperated with the NCAA enforcement staff and while the violation was inadvertent, it was nonetheless contrary to NCAA bylaws.
Saint Peter’s University and Coach Holloway are committed to a culture of integrity and rules compliance and will continue to work diligently to ensure it.
IMO, this is a joke. These violations were willful, numerous, and repeated, and continued in huge numbers even after the player was denied his release, no doubt because Syracuse was aware of the tampering.
Especially following the embarrassing revelations of all the massive cheating going on with recruiting by NCAA coaches, you'd think the NCAA would get serious with enforcement. But obviously if it involves one of their beloved Big East schools, they continue to look the other way, or hand out only token punishment. I suspect if this happened at a midmajor school, they would have been punished far more severely, and the coach would have been banned from coaching for years.
https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources...sible-contacts
In summary, an associate head coach at Seton Hall made 154 phone calls with the mother of a player at another school for the purposes of trying to recruit the player to transfer, while the player was an enrolled scholarship player at the other school. The 154 illicit phone calls were made without the required written consent of the school's Athletic Director. Seton Hall's head coach admitted he was aware of the illegal phone calls, and did nothing about them while they continued. And the associate head coach did not report the calls to his school's compliance office.
The player and his mother were eventually persuaded and they told his original school he wanted to transfer to Seton Hall but was denied (likely because of the known tampering), and yet the Seton Hall associate coach continued calling the player's mother another 87 more times!
The penalties are relatively minor for the magnitude of times they violated the rules-
- A $5,000 fine plus 1% of the men’s basketball budget.
- A reduction of men’s basketball scholarships by one during the 2020-21 academic year.
- A two-game suspension for the head coach during the 2019-20 season.
- The head coach must attend an NCAA Regional Rules Seminar in 2020.
- A two-week ban on recruiting communication during each of the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons.
- Three years of probation.
- A 20-month show-cause order for the former associate head coach. As part of the show-cause order, he is suspended from four games during the 2019-20 academic year and prohibited from all recruiting communication for six weeks during the 2019-20 academic year. He also is required to attend an NCAA Regional Rules Seminar in 2020 and 2021.
Seton Hall released their statement today claiming the hundreds of illegal phone calls were simply "inadvertent", and congratulated themselves for cooperating with the NCAA Infractions investigation.
https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/stat...47741972918272
The Head Coach referred to in this case is Kevin Willard, his associate head coach, who is no longer at Seton Hall, was Shaheen Holloway, and the player in the case is Taurean Thompson, who was at Syracuse while Holloway was at Seton Hall making the hundreds of phone calls to his mother to get him to transfer. He eventually did transfer to Seton Hall in August, 2017.
https://www.app.com/story/sports/col...ty/4201849002/
https://www.app.com/story/sports/col...lls/619664001/
The Seton Hall associate head coach who violated the rules, Shaheen Holloway, is now the head coach at St. Peter's University. He was also penalized mildly. He is currently serving a four-game suspension for his role in the tampering, and in addition, he is prohibited from recruiting for six weeks during the 2019-20 school year.
St. Peter's University also released a similar statement claiming the violations were inadvertent-
Coach Holloway fully cooperated with the NCAA enforcement staff and while the violation was inadvertent, it was nonetheless contrary to NCAA bylaws.
Saint Peter’s University and Coach Holloway are committed to a culture of integrity and rules compliance and will continue to work diligently to ensure it.
IMO, this is a joke. These violations were willful, numerous, and repeated, and continued in huge numbers even after the player was denied his release, no doubt because Syracuse was aware of the tampering.
Especially following the embarrassing revelations of all the massive cheating going on with recruiting by NCAA coaches, you'd think the NCAA would get serious with enforcement. But obviously if it involves one of their beloved Big East schools, they continue to look the other way, or hand out only token punishment. I suspect if this happened at a midmajor school, they would have been punished far more severely, and the coach would have been banned from coaching for years.
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