LSU被查到recruiting的違規，現在要被處罰了
但NCAA這個處罰也太明顯的大小眼了(對照之前對USC和OSU的處罰)
現在留言板裡面所有非SEC的球迷都在暴動了!
乾脆所有聯盟都解散併到SEC好了，以後做錯事也比較安心不會太嚴重
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU committed major violations while recruiting a junior
college football player but won't be slapped with any postseason bans or
future scholarship reductions, the NCAA ruled Tuesday. The governing body
decided to place the school on probation for a year and cited a former
assistant coach for unethical conduct.
The investigation found that former assistant coach D.J. McCarthy improperly
arranged for transportation and housing for former defensive lineman Akiem
Hicks in 2009 before later trying to cover up those actions.
The NCAA accepted LSU's self-imposed reduction of two scholarships during the
2010-11 academic year, as well as a 10 percent reduction in official visits
and reductions in recruiting calls. LSU had already begun reducing official
visits during 2010-11, but the NCAA expanded the punishment to include
2011-12.
Aschoff: LSU Gets Probation
The NCAA Committee on Infractions accepted LSU's self-imposed sanctions in a
case that centered on recruiting violations involving former junior college
signee Akiem Hicks and former assistant D.J. McCarthy, writes ESPN.com's
Edward Aschoff. Blog
McCarthy resigned in December 2009. Hicks never played for the Tigers before
he left LSU.
In a statement, McCarthy said: "I am grateful that the NCAA has concluded its
investigation and welcome the opportunity to someday return to the realm of
college coaching. Although I disagree with the NCAA's findings and the manner
in which I have been characterized, I will take the next few days to
thoroughly review all options, including appealing their decision."
NCAA Committee on Infractions chairman Dennis Thomas said LSU's violations
were all considered "major." Yet he stressed that punishment could have been
more severe if not for the efforts of LSU's compliance department to discover
and report the violations and to cooperate with subsequent NCAA inquiries.
"The committee really felt that the LSU compliance staff and institution did
an excellent job and that they assisted the (NCAA) enforcement staff in the
investigation regarding these violations," Thomas said.
He pointed specifically to senior associate athletic director Miriam Segar,
who became suspicious of Hicks' living arrangements from the time he arrived
in Baton Rouge. According to an earlier LSU report on the matter, Segar spent
weeks pressing for answers and made the decision to bar Hicks from traveling
to LSU's 2009 season-opening game at Washington because she was unsatisfied
with the information she had received.
"That was critical," said Thomas, who is also the commissioner of the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. "If that had not been done, the institution
could have really been under more severe and serious penalties as well."
The violations reported in the case also included more than 3,600 phone calls
that three noncoaching staff members either made to or received from high
school coaches and administrators, prospects and family members of
prospective students.
LSU has said most of those calls concerned clerical matters, were not
football-related and resulted from a misinterpretation of NCAA rules. Still,
LSU also reported those violations after seeking clarification on the NCAA's
interpretation of the rules regarding permissible phone calls.
LSU chancellor Michael Martin said the university does not plan to appeal.
In effect, LSU has already served its punishment regarding scholarships,
having limited itself to 83 total scholarships during the 2010-11 academic
year. That means the Tigers will be playing with the maximum 85 allowed
scholarships in the 2011 season.
LSU has a lot of key players returning and is a popular pick to contend for
Southeastern Conference and national titles this season.
"A situation that could have been much worse was made better by the dedicated
work of the LSU athletics compliance staff and I am pleased that the NCAA
recognized LSU's effort to cooperate and be proactive," Martin said. "The
compliance staff ... made an exemplary showing of how a university should
react when mistakes are made."
The NCAA's report details violations that included McCarthy's use of a cell
phone that was not registered with LSU's athletic department. He did not log
those calls, which caused other coaches to inadvertently break the rules by
making further calls that put LSU over the NCAA's one-call-per-week limit.
McCarthy also held a conference call with Hicks and another female student
who worked in the athletic department, during which the three agreed to
provide false information about Hicks' living arrangements for the summer of
2009 to LSU compliance staff.
Hicks met the female student during his official visit to LSU and kept in
touch with her. Because she worked for the athletic department, their phone
calls to one another amounted to violations relating to excessive calls to a
recruit, the report said. Hicks also stayed with her, free of charge, during
an unofficial visit and later moved into the vacant Baton Rouge apartment of
a former LSU player in an arrangement made by McCarthy, according to the
report.
To comply with the NCAA's ruling, LSU will have to issue a report next year
on measures it has taken to avoid a recurrence of the infractions revealed by
the probe. LSU will also have to inform prospective recruits that it is on
probation and explain why.
Meanwhile, the NCAA also placed restrictions on McCarthy's ability to work
for any NCAA football program he works for in the near future.
He must avoid phone contact with recruits, their relatives or legal guardians
for a year and enroll in an NCAA rules seminar as well as ethics training.
After McCarthy left LSU, he was hired by the WRA Receiver Academy, which
conducts instructional camps. According to the academy's website on Tuesday,
McCarthy was still part of the staff. A phone message left with the
organization was not returned.
McCarthy played receiver in college for Washington in the early 1990s. Before
arriving at LSU as a receivers coach in 2007, he was an assistant at UCLA,
Central Florida and Nevada. He also coached defensive backs for the Oakland
Raiders from 1998 to 2000.
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但NCAA這個處罰也太明顯的大小眼了(對照之前對USC和OSU的處罰)
現在留言板裡面所有非SEC的球迷都在暴動了!
乾脆所有聯盟都解散併到SEC好了，以後做錯事也比較安心不會太嚴重
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http://0rz.com/42Zcgw
BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU committed major violations while recruiting a junior
college football player but won't be slapped with any postseason bans or
future scholarship reductions, the NCAA ruled Tuesday. The governing body
decided to place the school on probation for a year and cited a former
assistant coach for unethical conduct.
The investigation found that former assistant coach D.J. McCarthy improperly
arranged for transportation and housing for former defensive lineman Akiem
Hicks in 2009 before later trying to cover up those actions.
The NCAA accepted LSU's self-imposed reduction of two scholarships during the
2010-11 academic year, as well as a 10 percent reduction in official visits
and reductions in recruiting calls. LSU had already begun reducing official
visits during 2010-11, but the NCAA expanded the punishment to include
2011-12.
Aschoff: LSU Gets Probation
The NCAA Committee on Infractions accepted LSU's self-imposed sanctions in a
case that centered on recruiting violations involving former junior college
signee Akiem Hicks and former assistant D.J. McCarthy, writes ESPN.com's
Edward Aschoff. Blog
McCarthy resigned in December 2009. Hicks never played for the Tigers before
he left LSU.
In a statement, McCarthy said: "I am grateful that the NCAA has concluded its
investigation and welcome the opportunity to someday return to the realm of
college coaching. Although I disagree with the NCAA's findings and the manner
in which I have been characterized, I will take the next few days to
thoroughly review all options, including appealing their decision."
NCAA Committee on Infractions chairman Dennis Thomas said LSU's violations
were all considered "major." Yet he stressed that punishment could have been
more severe if not for the efforts of LSU's compliance department to discover
and report the violations and to cooperate with subsequent NCAA inquiries.
"The committee really felt that the LSU compliance staff and institution did
an excellent job and that they assisted the (NCAA) enforcement staff in the
investigation regarding these violations," Thomas said.
He pointed specifically to senior associate athletic director Miriam Segar,
who became suspicious of Hicks' living arrangements from the time he arrived
in Baton Rouge. According to an earlier LSU report on the matter, Segar spent
weeks pressing for answers and made the decision to bar Hicks from traveling
to LSU's 2009 season-opening game at Washington because she was unsatisfied
with the information she had received.
"That was critical," said Thomas, who is also the commissioner of the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. "If that had not been done, the institution
could have really been under more severe and serious penalties as well."
The violations reported in the case also included more than 3,600 phone calls
that three noncoaching staff members either made to or received from high
school coaches and administrators, prospects and family members of
prospective students.
LSU has said most of those calls concerned clerical matters, were not
football-related and resulted from a misinterpretation of NCAA rules. Still,
LSU also reported those violations after seeking clarification on the NCAA's
interpretation of the rules regarding permissible phone calls.
LSU chancellor Michael Martin said the university does not plan to appeal.
In effect, LSU has already served its punishment regarding scholarships,
having limited itself to 83 total scholarships during the 2010-11 academic
year. That means the Tigers will be playing with the maximum 85 allowed
scholarships in the 2011 season.
LSU has a lot of key players returning and is a popular pick to contend for
Southeastern Conference and national titles this season.
"A situation that could have been much worse was made better by the dedicated
work of the LSU athletics compliance staff and I am pleased that the NCAA
recognized LSU's effort to cooperate and be proactive," Martin said. "The
compliance staff ... made an exemplary showing of how a university should
react when mistakes are made."
The NCAA's report details violations that included McCarthy's use of a cell
phone that was not registered with LSU's athletic department. He did not log
those calls, which caused other coaches to inadvertently break the rules by
making further calls that put LSU over the NCAA's one-call-per-week limit.
McCarthy also held a conference call with Hicks and another female student
who worked in the athletic department, during which the three agreed to
provide false information about Hicks' living arrangements for the summer of
2009 to LSU compliance staff.
Hicks met the female student during his official visit to LSU and kept in
touch with her. Because she worked for the athletic department, their phone
calls to one another amounted to violations relating to excessive calls to a
recruit, the report said. Hicks also stayed with her, free of charge, during
an unofficial visit and later moved into the vacant Baton Rouge apartment of
a former LSU player in an arrangement made by McCarthy, according to the
report.
To comply with the NCAA's ruling, LSU will have to issue a report next year
on measures it has taken to avoid a recurrence of the infractions revealed by
the probe. LSU will also have to inform prospective recruits that it is on
probation and explain why.
Meanwhile, the NCAA also placed restrictions on McCarthy's ability to work
for any NCAA football program he works for in the near future.
He must avoid phone contact with recruits, their relatives or legal guardians
for a year and enroll in an NCAA rules seminar as well as ethics training.
After McCarthy left LSU, he was hired by the WRA Receiver Academy, which
conducts instructional camps. According to the academy's website on Tuesday,
McCarthy was still part of the staff. A phone message left with the
organization was not returned.
McCarthy played receiver in college for Washington in the early 1990s. Before
arriving at LSU as a receivers coach in 2007, he was an assistant at UCLA,
Central Florida and Nevada. He also coached defensive backs for the Oakland
Raiders from 1998 to 2000.
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