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04-11-2012, 05:01 PM
he NCAA on Wedneday accepted Baylor's self-imposed penalties and put the school on three years of probation in an infractions case involving more than 1,200 impermissible phone calls and text messages by basketball coaches to prep recruits.
The violations were considered to be major infractions. The NCAA said men's coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season in addition to recruiting restrictions.
Women's coach Kim Mulkey, whose team won the national championship last week, also received recruiting restrictions.
Earlier this week, ESPN.com obtained a copy of the summary disposition, which was produced by the NCAA enforcement staff and Baylor.
Men's assistant basketball coaches Paul Mills and Jerome Tang also were named in the report along with women's basketball assistant coach Damion McKinney.
The penalties self-imposed by Baylor include:
⢠Mulkey -- whose 2011-12 squad went 40-0 and won the NCAA title -- will be prohibited from recruiting off-campus for the entire summer recruiting period (July 1-31).
⢠McKinney hasn't been allowed to make recruiting calls to prospective student-athletes since Jan. 1. The ban will be lifted on May 1.
⢠Baylor's women's basketball program lost two of its 15 scholarships in 2011-12.
⢠Baylor's men's program lost one scholarship for both the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons.
⢠Drew and Tang were prohibited from making recruiting calls from Jan. 1 to Feb. 29 of this year.
⢠The maximum number of official visits allowed to the men's basketball team in 2012-13 was reduced from 12 to seven.
Baylor will have no more additional penalties other than those it self-imposed.
The 66-page report documented a handful of secondary violations against a number of the school's programs, but it focused on the phone calls and texts. The NCAA enforcement staff labeled the improprieties as "major violations," mainly because of the frequency with which they occurred.
Combined, the men's and women's basketball programs sent 738 impermissible text messages and made 528 impermissible calls over a span of nearly 2½ years.
The NCAA's investigation probe also determined that former men's assistant Mark Morefield committed a major violation when he attempted to influence two AAU coaches to furnish the NCAA with false and misleading information regarding a series of text messages. Morefield resigned in July 2011.
"I sincerely apologize to Baylor University and Baylor Nation. I learned a very valuable lesson in this case," Morefield said in a statement released Thursday. "In my 13 years of coaching at NCAA institutions, I have not intentionally violated NCAA rules. I will grow from this experience with a better understanding of NCAA rules."
The report concluded that Drew demonstrated a "failure to monitor" the activities of two of his assistant coaches and that there also was an overall "failure to monitor" by the institution, which found 405 additional impermissible calls and text messages from nine different sports, ranging from football to the equestrian program, from January to July 2011, during its investigation.
"As head coach, I take full responsibility for these mistakes and am disappointed that we have failed to uphold both the NCAA's and Baylor's expectations of documenting phone calls and recruiting communications," Drew said in a statement. "The procedures have been corrected through a new software tracking system which should prevent this from ever happening again."
The NCAA's probe of Baylor began in October 2008, when women's basketball player of the year Griner, then a high school senior, and her father, Ray, reported information concerning their contacts with members of the women's basketball staff that were potentially impermissible.
Griner and her father provided the information during an interview with the NCAA enforcement staff in conjunction with the NCAA Top Prospect Program. The now-defunct program required staff members to interview top high school girls' and boys' basketball and football players in the nation.
Two months later, during an interview with men's high school standout Shawn Williams Jr., it was reported that members of Baylor's men's basketball staff had contacted Williams and his father beyond the permissible number of calls. The player signed with Texas and later transferred to SMU.
As a result of those interviews, the NCAA staff requested a variety of information from Baylor, including telephone records of the men's and women's basketball staffs. Subsequently, potential violations involving impermissible calls and texts were identified.
Most of the impermissible calls and texts were made by the men's staff in 2007 and 2008. According to the report, Drew told enforcement officials that most of the errors occurred either because of poor communication between him and his assistants regarding what calls had been made during a certain day or week, or because of the failure to keep a log of those calls.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...t-messages
The violations were considered to be major infractions. The NCAA said men's coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season in addition to recruiting restrictions.
Women's coach Kim Mulkey, whose team won the national championship last week, also received recruiting restrictions.
Earlier this week, ESPN.com obtained a copy of the summary disposition, which was produced by the NCAA enforcement staff and Baylor.
Men's assistant basketball coaches Paul Mills and Jerome Tang also were named in the report along with women's basketball assistant coach Damion McKinney.
The penalties self-imposed by Baylor include:
⢠Mulkey -- whose 2011-12 squad went 40-0 and won the NCAA title -- will be prohibited from recruiting off-campus for the entire summer recruiting period (July 1-31).
⢠McKinney hasn't been allowed to make recruiting calls to prospective student-athletes since Jan. 1. The ban will be lifted on May 1.
⢠Baylor's women's basketball program lost two of its 15 scholarships in 2011-12.
⢠Baylor's men's program lost one scholarship for both the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons.
⢠Drew and Tang were prohibited from making recruiting calls from Jan. 1 to Feb. 29 of this year.
⢠The maximum number of official visits allowed to the men's basketball team in 2012-13 was reduced from 12 to seven.
Baylor will have no more additional penalties other than those it self-imposed.
The 66-page report documented a handful of secondary violations against a number of the school's programs, but it focused on the phone calls and texts. The NCAA enforcement staff labeled the improprieties as "major violations," mainly because of the frequency with which they occurred.
Combined, the men's and women's basketball programs sent 738 impermissible text messages and made 528 impermissible calls over a span of nearly 2½ years.
The NCAA's investigation probe also determined that former men's assistant Mark Morefield committed a major violation when he attempted to influence two AAU coaches to furnish the NCAA with false and misleading information regarding a series of text messages. Morefield resigned in July 2011.
"I sincerely apologize to Baylor University and Baylor Nation. I learned a very valuable lesson in this case," Morefield said in a statement released Thursday. "In my 13 years of coaching at NCAA institutions, I have not intentionally violated NCAA rules. I will grow from this experience with a better understanding of NCAA rules."
The report concluded that Drew demonstrated a "failure to monitor" the activities of two of his assistant coaches and that there also was an overall "failure to monitor" by the institution, which found 405 additional impermissible calls and text messages from nine different sports, ranging from football to the equestrian program, from January to July 2011, during its investigation.
"As head coach, I take full responsibility for these mistakes and am disappointed that we have failed to uphold both the NCAA's and Baylor's expectations of documenting phone calls and recruiting communications," Drew said in a statement. "The procedures have been corrected through a new software tracking system which should prevent this from ever happening again."
The NCAA's probe of Baylor began in October 2008, when women's basketball player of the year Griner, then a high school senior, and her father, Ray, reported information concerning their contacts with members of the women's basketball staff that were potentially impermissible.
Griner and her father provided the information during an interview with the NCAA enforcement staff in conjunction with the NCAA Top Prospect Program. The now-defunct program required staff members to interview top high school girls' and boys' basketball and football players in the nation.
Two months later, during an interview with men's high school standout Shawn Williams Jr., it was reported that members of Baylor's men's basketball staff had contacted Williams and his father beyond the permissible number of calls. The player signed with Texas and later transferred to SMU.
As a result of those interviews, the NCAA staff requested a variety of information from Baylor, including telephone records of the men's and women's basketball staffs. Subsequently, potential violations involving impermissible calls and texts were identified.
Most of the impermissible calls and texts were made by the men's staff in 2007 and 2008. According to the report, Drew told enforcement officials that most of the errors occurred either because of poor communication between him and his assistants regarding what calls had been made during a certain day or week, or because of the failure to keep a log of those calls.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...t-messages
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04-11-2012, 05:10 PM
Not much of a penalty is it.
04-12-2012, 08:12 AM
Congrats to Baylor for getting out of it. UK's President is on the infractions committee next school year, should be interesting what BBN does when dUKe gets off the last time UK's President was on the infractions committee.
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