NCAA Punishes LSU for Recruiting Violations

July 19, 2011, 3:04 pm

The NCAA has imposed recruiting restrictions on Louisiana State University, along with a reduction in athletic scholarships and one year of probation, for rules violations in its football program.

The ruling, set forth in a report released Tuesday afternoon by the Division I Committee on Infractions, focuses on the actions of a former assistant football coach at LSU. In his recruitment of a prospective player in 2008 and 2009, the report said, he exceeded the NCAA’s limits on phone calls, provided lodging and transportation beyond what NCAA policy allows, and later attempted to cover up the breaches.

The latter misstep did not go unnoticed by the committee, which just last week singled out officials at Georgia Tech for impeding an investigation into rules violations in its football and men’s basketball programs. In LSU’s case, the committee concluded that the former assistant coach’s behavior constituted unethical conduct. It also levied a “show cause” penalty against him, under which he is forbidden, among other things, to have contact with recruits or their families for one year.

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tdb489

When teaching at a foreign university, one does not demonstrate or protest regarding American or host country issues. Americans who do so are called “ugly Americans” and taint the reputation of all other Americans. If Libyian or any other foreign students/immigrants wish to demonstrate about their home country problems, I suggest they go home to do so.
manoflamancha

With respect,Katisumas (what the blazes does that handle mean?), you are making logical leaps everywhere! How can you possibly know the detailed make-up of foreign students at UCLA? We court Japanese students for the money? Desperately need foreign students for their high tuition? You sir or madam are one seriously sick puppy. Yes, I am indeed one of the LATTER…try English spelling 101. Or better still, pack up your bags for Bagdhad!

South Park is parody, of folks like you:)
manoflamancha

Oh, stop it!
manoflamancha

The pressure is on when the coach gets $4million a year. Time to shut them all down, and get on with the business of education!
redlion

While LSU’s violations are serious, they hardly seem like the egregious allegations against Cam Newton last year and the 4 year investigation of USC from the crack slueths at the NCAA. NCAA enforcement is inept. Rome is burning!
dale1

Rome is burning, and it seems to me there are two options many faculty consider:

1. Reform
2. Dismantle

Since we cannot trust foxes to guard henhouses, I suggest the latter. Of course, it’s never going to happen. Why? Politics and money, and not necessarily in that order.

The aims of intercollegiate athletics could just as easily be obtained through intramural athletics.
jffoster

Tilting at windmills again?
goxewu

Every reformer in the early stages of a movement is “tilting at windmills.” Suffragettes, school desgregationists, civil rights marchers, FOIL advocates, open-housing advocates, gay marriage advocates. Reform is coming to big-time college athletics. Probably not in the form of big-time college athletic departments being shut down, perhaps, but more likely football players and men’s basketball players being paid. The “amateurism” charade in those two sports–the big moneymakers for, if not the colleges themselves, the television networks–won’t hold up much longer. And once the principle of paying players who put their bodies on the line (and please, no “free college education” bromides) is established, the old, academically corrupt way of doing things will change.
jffoster

One wants to be careful here of the “they laughed at Fulton” fallacy — they laughed at Robert Fulton and he turned out to be right and since they’re laughing at me, I must be right. Most windmill tilters wind up being just that because their movements wind up moving very little. And, as you note, they’re not going to shut down major and most middling college athletic departments, particularly for varsity football and basketball. Quixoticity is often only quixoticity.
But I agree with you that the thing is getting into shoal water, in danger of running aground, carrying too much sail topsides. and that there will be some restructuring and reorganization. I wonder if it may not start with a reworking of the conference line ups in a direction opposite what has just happened. The absurdity for instance of TCU in Ft Worth being in the Big East and Louisiana Tech being in a conference with all those Far West and intermountain colleges and the cost of travel I think will begin to weigh heavily. I realize the present and very recent developments suggest more of the same but I suspect the super spread out conference shift will start shifting back to a more regional orientation.
I doubt that players will be “paid” in that word. And bromide, floride, chloride, or iodide, a tuition free college education opportunity is still what it is. But it is hardly unheard of for undergraduate academic scholarships to carry also a living stipend and I see no principled reason why an athletic scholarship could not also carry a stipend in addition to tuition, fees, and room and board.
goxewu

“…the thing is getting into shoal water, in danger of running aground,
carrying too much sail topsides…I wonder if it may not start with a
reworking of the conference line ups.”

Hilarious. Titanic, deck chairs, etc. (And apparently Dink Stover is one of the crew.)
http://www.facebook.com/moinultm Moin Rs

While LSU’s violations are serious, they hardly seem like the egregious allegations against Cam Newton last year and the 4 year investigation of USC from the crack slueths at the NCAA. NCAA enforcement is inept. Rome is burning!
http://www.facebook.com/moinultm Moin Rs

While LSU’s violations are serious, they hardly seem like the egregious allegations against Cam Newton last year and the 4 year investigation of USC from the crack slueths at the NCAA. NCAA enforcement is inept. Rome is burning!
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