NCAA announces penalties, including football bowl ban, for Mizzou’s academic fraud

[TLO]

M-I-Z!

https://www.kshb.com/sports/ncaa-ann...-fraud-scandal

Missouri football faces a postseason ban next season, while its baseball and softball programs are barred from postseason competition this spring after the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions announced a range of penalties Thursday morning.

MU and the NCAA have been investigating allegations of academic misconduct since tutor Yolanda Kumar announced her role in completing coursework for students in a private Facebook post in November 2016.

Mizzou announced that it was being investigated around the same time.

The Committee on Infractions has determined that “the tutor completed academic work on behalf of 12 Missouri student-athletes,” according to a report released on the NCAA’s website at 11 a.m. local time.

Three Tigers athletic programs now face sanctions from the NCAA:

The entire Mizzou athletic department faces three years of probation.

Kumar, though not named in the report, received a 10-year show-cause order, preventing any NCAA member school from allowing her to work with its athletic department during that time.

The Tigers’ baseball and softball programs cannot participate in the postseason during the 2018-19 season, while the football program isn’t eligible for a bowl during the 2019-20 season. All three programs also are banned from postseason conference tournament participation.
Any games in which the 12 student-athletes in question participated after becoming ineligible must be vacated. MU must provide a written report to NCAA staff within 45 days.

The football, baseball and softball programs have been hit with a 5-percent scholarship reduction and also face various recruiting restrictions.

Mizzou, which self-imposed its disassociation from Kumar, also must pay a fine in the amount of $5,000 plus 1 percent of the football, baseball and softball budgets.
Among the recruiting restrictions for 2019-20, football, baseball and softball face a seven-week ban on unofficial visits, a 12.5-percent reduction in official visits, a seven-week ban on recruiting communications, a seven-week ban on all off-campus contacts/evaluation and a 12.5-percent reduction in recruiters allow to make visits on evaluation days.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by TambaBerry

if you truly believe that then i feel sorry for you, you're right that it happens all over the nation but come on

On conference call, Ncaa committee spokesman makes it clear that evidence indicates tutor acted on her own without direction from colleagues.

— Dave Matter (@Dave_Matter) January 31, 2019

[Sassy Squatch]

Neat.

[HonestChieffan]

There is no excuse for this sort of thing and anyone who thinks the coaches and Athletic department is unaware is a fool or in total denial. Throw the book at them

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

There is no excuse for this sort of thing and anyone who thinks the coaches and Athletic department is unaware is a fool or in total denial. Throw the book at them

It doesn't make sense when schools guilty of worse get lighter punishments, there is no consistency. If you are a blue blood you can get away with stuff while schools they don't think matter get huge penalties for less.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

There is no excuse for this sort of thing and anyone who thinks the coaches and Athletic department is unaware is a fool or in total denial. Throw the book at them

Well-said^

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Mecca

It doesn't make sense when schools guilty of worse get lighter punishments, there is no consistency. If you are a blue blood you can get away with stuff while schools they don't think matter get huge penalties for less.

Wow, college really does prepare you for life.

[DJJasonp]

As a KU fan, it would be easy to laugh at this.......but in all reality, this is crap.

UNC denies, denies, denies.....while ex-players actually come out and say others took tests for them, etc. etc.

The NCAA is a joke and has nearly zero credibility left.

Either punish consistently, and fairly, across the board - or let it be the wild wild west.

The middle ground doesnt cut it.....and only punishes non-blue bloods.

If you really wanted to invoke change, start cutting federal or state aid to schools that get popped.....then enrollment goes down, and hits the school where it hurts the most.

[HonestChieffan]

Wonder if the conference has any ability to punish a school

[Mecca]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Well-said^

You all on your high horses should just shut down college athletics, it's not different than steroid use witch hunts, if stuff like that matters to you, don't watch cause it's everywhere and not going away.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

There is no excuse for this sort of thing and anyone who thinks the coaches and Athletic department is unaware is a fool or in total denial. Throw the book at them

Except the NCAA made findings to just the exact opposite. They concluded the tutor acted alone. Whatever we ‘think’ doesn’t matter, only what the facts show.

But, honestly, that doesn’t even matter. The biggest takeaway from this is the NCAA’s hypocrisy in all of this. Look the other way on UNC and minor wrist slap on LSU, but hammer Mizzou for extremely less serious academic fraud issues?

It’s a joke. The whole NCAA. The process. Everything. With this ruling, they are basically encouraging schools to lie and deny. No one should ever cooperate with the NCAA on an investigation going forward. You play by their rules and you get burned.

It’s why they’re the most corrupt athletic organization in America.

[ChiefBlueCFC]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

There is no excuse for this sort of thing and anyone who thinks the coaches and Athletic department is unaware is a fool or in total denial. Throw the book at them

****ing eye roll -- punishing kids that have nothing to do with the infractions, when the NCAA talks about how important and valuable the scholarships are, the opportunities that these sports provide, yet they want to NOT punish the school necessarily, they want to punish everyone involved with the program even if the people there had ZERO to do with it. Look at North Carolina -- slap on the wrist because they denied everything and fought it. Your opinion changes when its your school that gets caught giving a kid a tortilla

The NCAA is a ****ing joke

[Mecca]

Pretty sure anyone who backs the NCAA in something like this...see a few in this thread, is a ****ing moron.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

It’s a joke. The whole NCAA. The process. Everything. With this ruling, they are basically encouraging schools to lie and deny. No one should ever cooperate with the NCAA on an investigation going forward. You play by their rules and you get burned.

It’s why they’re the most corrupt athletic organization in America.

The investigations cost them too much money. If the schools report nothing and deny everything and the NCAA can pocket that money themselves.

Who wants to spend all that money listening to Adidas reps and schools talking about paying players and handlers when they could just go buy a new car instead?

[BryanBusby]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

Except the NCAA made findings to just the exact opposite. They concluded the tutor acted alone. Whatever we ‘think’ doesn’t matter, only what the facts show.

But, honestly, that doesn’t even matter. The biggest takeaway from this is the NCAA’s hypocrisy in all of this. Look the other way on UNC and minor wrist slap on LSU, but hammer Mizzou for extremely less serious academic fraud issues?

It’s a joke. The whole NCAA. The process. Everything. With this ruling, they are basically encouraging schools to lie and deny. No one should ever cooperate with the NCAA on an investigation going forward. You play by their rules and you get burned.

It’s why they’re the most corrupt athletic organization in America.

Save your breath. He's a racist dumbass.

[dj56dt58]

Bowl games are stupid anyway..national championship is all they matters . They are glorified exhibition games that the star players sit out for