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NCAA Hits Rutgers Football With Notice Of 7 Possible Violations

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December 20, 2016 at 4:25pm
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Here is the full list of NCAA violations found in the investigation, via Rutgers:

The former head football coach is alleged to have provided a former student-athlete with an impermissible extra benefit by directly contacting a professor seeking special consideration for the student-athlete in an academic course relating to the 2014-2015 academic year. In addition, he is charged with failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance in the football program, violating the principles of NCAA head coach responsibility legislation. Both allegations are deemed Level II by the NCAA.

A former assistant football coach is alleged to have had improper off-campus recruiting contact with a prospective student athlete in 2014 (Level III) and the NCAA has also charged the coach with unethical conduct for providing false or misleading information to the NCAA and the institution during the investigation. (Level II)

The NCAA has alleged that between the 2011-12 academic year and the fall of 2015, the Rutgers football host/hostess program, staffed by student workers, was not properly operated and supervised as required by NCAA legislation; that two student hostesses had impermissible off-campus contact and electronic correspondence with prospective student athletes; and that the former football director of recruiting impermissibly publicized the recruitment of prospective student-athletes. (Level II)

It is alleged that between September 2011 and the fall of 2015, the University and the director of sports medicine employed practices and procedures that violated the institution's drug-testing policy by: failing to notify the director of athletics of positive drug tests; along with the former head football coach, failing to implement prescribed corrective and disciplinary actions and penalties; and failing to identify select drug tests as positive in accordance with university policy. (Level II)
Because of the scope of these alleged violations, the NCAA has also alleged that between 2011 and 2016, the university failed to monitor its football program regarding its host/hostess program and drug-testing program. (Level II)

 

Athletics Director Pat Hobbs and University President Robert Barchi, who released a letter to the Rutgers community in response to the allegations, were not available for immediate comment.

In his letter, Barchi outlined the steps Rutgers has taken to clean up the football program. Rutgers hopes these actions, along with cooperating with the NCAA probe, will help the school dodge severe penalties.

According to NCAA procedures, Rutgers will have 90 days to respond, and sources say the university is likely to appeal the notice and will receive a formal hearing on the allegations at some point next year.

 

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