NCAA Penalizes UConn for Recruiting Violations in Men’s Basketball

February 22, 2011, 4:15 pm

The University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball coach will be suspended from three Big East Conference games next season as punishment for having committed major recruiting violations in his quest to land a blue-chip player in 2008, the NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions announced on Tuesday. The NCAA accused the Hall of Fame coach, Jim Calhoun, of involving an agent to recruit the athlete. In a 30-page report, the NCAA also outlined several areas in which Mr. Calhoun’s coaching staff violated a variety of NCAA recruiting rules, and levied additional penalties against the program, including a loss of one scholarship for each of the next three seasons and a three-year probation.

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glord

Tennessee is next.
old nassau’67

Two stats re this Hall-of-Famer’s program:
The graduation rate for men’s basketball players who entered during the 2001-02 school year is 33%. This compares to 74% for all UConn Storrs freshman and 73% for all UConn student-athletes receiving athletics aid in this cohort. The 2001 freshman cohort graduation rate among all Division I men’s basketball programs was 49%.
(http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/rpt/2009-R-0129.htm)
Yet Calhoun only registers a 27 percent player graduation rate, according to a 2005 University of Central Florida study. That rate drops to 14 percent if we only count his African-American players, UCF said.
(http://www.the40yearplan.com/article_020106.php)