Losing Three Scholarship - Crime Count: 4 - limited
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| Date | Team_Name | Sport | Category | Link | Points | Evidence |
| 2008-08-21 | Trailer_Trash | MWC | Nuisance | Crime Link | 6 | The NCAA put the New Mexico program on three years of probation Wednesday and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two former assistant coaches.
The sanctions imposed by the NCAA’s infractions committee went beyond the university’s self-imposed penalties, which included two years of probation and fewer scholarship reductions. New Mexico’s head coach Rocky Long was not accused of any wrongdoing in the case. The NCAA concluded that the former Lobos assistants in 2004 improperly helped three recruits to obtain fraudulent academic credits through correspondence courses they never completed at Fresno Pacific University, a fully accredited, four-year college in California that also offers online degrees. In its report, the infractions committee said course registration materials at Fresno Pacific showed the home addresses for the three UNM recruits as the home address in California of a brother of one former assistant. Coaches’ office or cell phone numbers were listed as the recruits’ phone numbers. The recruits admitted to NCAA investigators that they "received no course materials and did no work" but received course credit. The recruits took courses from a Fresno Pacific instructor who was an acquaintance of one of the former UNM assistants. At a news conference, athletic director Paul Krebs said the university fully cooperated with the NCAA during the probe. "I do think there is some relief that comes with the filing of the report. It allows us to bring closure to what is a sad and embarassing situation for the university," Krebs said. Long said the penalities will force his program to be more selective in its recruiting. He said he also would keep a tighter rein on his assistants. Of the two assistants, Long said: "When they’re out on the road themselves and doing this sort of thing, they’re trying to recruit the best they can. Sometimes you lose sight of what’s important. I think they’re two great guys who made some serious mistakes." The infractions committee pointed out that New Mexico was the third school that had major rules violations involving courses from Fresno Pacific. "All institutions are cautioned that due diligence must be exercised prior to accepting courses from Fresno Pacific for academic credit and athletic eligibility purposes," the committee said in its report. Sanctions also were imposed on the former assistants in their recruiting and coaching activities at any school where they work. The NCAA did not identify the assistants in the infractions committee’s report. |
| 2008-05-26 | Trailer_Trash | Sun Belt | Nuisance | Crime Link | 3 | Florida International was placed on four years probation by the NCAA on Wednesday and will lose scholarships for a variety of infractions.
More than 40 athletes who competed for the school from the 2002-03 through the 2006-07 academic years violated rules, said Josephine Potuto, chairwoman of the NCAA committee on infractions. The school, which jumped from NCAA Division I-AA to Division I-A, misapplied enrollment and financial aid rules, transfer requirements and eligibility rules, the NCAA found. "The institution acknowledges that it was not ready for the move, at least from a compliance standpoint," Potuto said. The men’s basketball program lost one scholarship and its baseball program lost 1.5. The football program was stripped of three scholarships. In all, 11 sports lost scholarships. The violations were self-reported. Records set during the years of the infractions were erased, and the probationary period is to end May 19, 2012, because the sanctions were added on top of other penalties. The school said the violations were not intentional. "Upon discovering these violations, we put in place new compliance procedures that are much more suited to the university FIU has become in the last 10 years," university president Modesto Maidique said. "We now have the level of staffing and the redundancies that will prevent these types of infractions from occurring again in the future." Rick Mello, the school’s former athletic director who became an associate commissioner with the Sun Belt Conference in 2006, declined comment through a Sun Belt spokesman. |
| 2008-05-06 | Perpetrators | Pac 10 | Nuisance | Crime Link | 12 | Washington State Cougars has been penalized 8 football scholarships by the NCAA due to poor academic performance by the team. |
| 2008-02-14 | IrvinSucks | ACC | Nuisance | Crime Link | 12 | FSU volunteered to put itself on 2-years of NCAA probation after concluding its investigation of the cheating scandal involving 60 athletes that has been previously busted. Loss of scholarships is a componant of the settlement, but FSU would not comment on how many, so I am busting for 6. I think that is reasonable given the number of teams and athletes involved, and the fact that the guilty athletes each lost 30% of their eligibility as per the article.
Personally, I think the did not specify the schollys lost because they are treating it as an institutional problem, rather than individual team problems, so they will revoke 10 schollys but allocate them all to women’s swimming and softball, so that Bobby is not affected. |