The 3-year show cause penalty seems a little severe for the violations Stallings was punished for. The NCAA believed he directed the erasure of practice video tapes and files to try to hide the illegal coaching actions by non-approved coaches, which likely made the penalty much worse than it might have been.
If anyone is wondering what the longest and most severe "show cause" penalty was that the NCAA imposed, here they are for men's and women's basketball-
Men's basketball-
Donnie Tyndall - The former head coach at
Morehead State,
Southern Miss and
Tennessee, Tyndall received a 10-year show cause penalty on April 8, 2016—tied with Bliss for the longest on record for a head basketball coach—for numerous incidents of academic fraud, arranging payments to players and covering up the payments while at Southern Miss. Tennessee fired him in 2014 after the extent of the violations at Southern Miss became known. The penalty runs until April 7, 2026. If he is hired by an NCAA member school during this period, he will be suspended from coaching duties-effectively banning him from the collegiate coaching ranks until the end of the 2025-26 season. If Tyndall is hired by an NCAA member school after the penalty runs out, he will be suspended for the first half of the first season of his return. This led
USA Today to call Tyndall's penalty the most severe ever meted out to a head coach.
Andre McGee – The former
Louisville director of operations received a 10-year show-cause, tied for the longest on record for any men's basketball coach, on June 15, 2017. In 2015, a self-described former
madam alleged that McGee had paid her $10,000 from 2010 to 2014—a period that included Louisville's most recent
national championship—to organize
strip shows, including sex acts, for players and recruits. The NCAA found her allegations credible enough to place Louisville on four years' probation, suspend head coach
Rick Pitino for Louisville's first five ACC games in 2017–18 (Pitino would subsequently be fired by the university before the suspension began, stemming from
an unrelated matter), and order an as-yet-undetermined number of wins to be vacated, potentially including the 2013 national title. An appeal by Louisville failed, and the school was officially stripped of its 2013 title in February 2018.
Women's basketball-
Phil Collins – An assistant at
UNC Greensboro, Collins was fired in May 2018 after it emerged that he had bet extensively on professional and college sports, including on
UNCG men's basketball games, for at least two years. The NCAA bans athletic personnel from betting on any competition in any sport in which the NCAA sponsors a championship, legal or otherwise. On July 25, 2019, the NCAA gave Collins a 15-year show-cause order–the longest such penalty on record for any NCAA sport–effective until 2034. The former assistant director of the school's fundraising organization received a four-year show-cause for making similar but less extensive wagers, and the UNCG women's program was placed on probation for 3 years, but with no scholarship reductions or postseason bans.
