University of Cincinnati Violates Recruiting Rules
Yesterday the NCAA released an article stating that the University of Cincinnati committed recruiting violations in their women’s basketball and football programs. The university discovered and reported the violations including 220 impermissible recruiting phone calls. As a result, coaching and recruiting restrictions as well as two years probation for the university were put into affect.
The penalties will directly affect the respective sport programs. The teams probably won’t suffer too terribly but one can assume that the coaches will make sure to never violate an official NCAA rule ever again. Above all, the penalties will serve as a set backs to the athletic programs at the University of Cincinnati.
Personally, I will probably never post a blog responding to an article directly from the NCAA website. The article lacks personality and was boring to say the least. It would be nice to know how the recruits at hand are dealing with the situation but it is not even mentioned in the article.
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I find it unlikely that the athletic programs at the University of Cincinnati will in fact suffer any set backs at all. Although there were restrictions placed on those at fault, what is to say they won’t again violate the rules like they did 220 times before? As for the probation, what does that even really mean? How does a school being put on probation affect the athletics program at all? If the teams themselves are not affected by the punishments then where is the punishing taking place? I think the NCAA should work to create better punishments if they wish to actually stop future recruiting violations.
First, I agree– NCAA articles are boring and often one sided. Also, I don’t think the teams will suffer much or at all. Unfortunately, it seems to me that most NCAA violations are met with more of a slap on the wrist than punishments that will actually correct the behavior. There’s no guarantee that the athletic program won’t continue to use illegal tactics, especially if breaking the rules is successful in securing recruits.