July 6, 2001

NCAA Places 2 Universities on Probation for Recruiting Violations

By WELCH SUGGS

By ALEX P. KELLOGG and WELCH SUGGS

The National Collegiate Athletic Association placed New Mexico State University and Humboldt State University on probation and imposed other penalties last month because they had offered improper inducements to recruits from junior colleges.

This is the second time in five years that New Mexico State has been punished for these kinds of violations.

The N.C.A.A.'s Division I Committee on Infractions found that the

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