BOL Round Table

... for the past 13 months, 14 of which were due to impermissible text messages or phone calls to recruits.

Basketball had the most with six, football had four.

A member of the football staff sent an impermissible text message and was banned from making phone calls for 30 days and received a letter of admonishment. Similar bans prohibited a basketball coach from placing phone calls for 14 days, and a baseball coach received an 84-day ban from recruiting.

Here's the whole list (sorry about the spacing):

Sport, Bylaw, Summary, Corrective Actions Taken
Men’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA. Rules Education. Letter of Admonishment.

Men’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA. Rules education. Letter of Admonishment.

Men’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 Director of Operations sent text message to PSA’s mother. Rules education. Letter of Admonishment.

Men’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA. Rules education. Letter of Admonishment. Prohibited coach from placing phone calls for 14 days.

Football 15.2.8 SA received check for scholarship prior to SA’s final certification to allow SA to receive scholarship check. SA paid back the money from the check. Rules education.

Women’s Tennis 12.5.2.1 SA was used on a promotional flyer for a tennis club. Rules education. Cease and desist letter.
Track and Field 13.1.3.1 Due to data entry error, a coaching staff member called a PSA prior to the permissible date to call a PSA for the PSA’s class graduation year. Letter of admonishment. Rules Education. 60-day recruiting ban to the PSA. Prohibited the coach from calling prospects for 14 days.

Football 13.4.1 A member of the coaching staff accepted a Facebook friend request prior to the permissible date for two PSAs. De-friended PSAs. No correspondence with PSAs for 60 days after first permissible date of correspondence. Rules education.

Gymnastics 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA. Rules Education.

Women’s Basketball 14.5.4.5.6.1 2 student-athletes were allowed to practice a few days beyond the 21 day maximum while waiting for their transcripts to be officially certified. Rules Education. Both student-athletes will miss 4 practices each throughout the remainder of the year in order to compensate for the practices they impermissibly participated in.

Gymnastics 13.4.1 Members of the coaching staff sent recruiting materials to PSA prior to permissible date. Rules education.
Letter of Admonishment. No recruiting materials to PSA for 60 days once PSA is eligible to receive materials.
Compliance 13.6.3 PSA came on official visit without institution receiving documented test score. Letter of admonishment. Rules education.

Baseball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent text messages to multiple PSA’s 84-day recruiting ban for coach. Letter of admonishment. Rules education. 90-day recruiting ban to PSA.

Women’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA. Letter of admonishment. 14-day phone call ban for coach. Rules education.

Women’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA. Rules education.
Softball 14.4.3.2 SA competed while ineligible because failed to meet percentage of degree requirements. Rules education. Changed departmental policy.

Track and Field 14.1.8.1 SA practiced while he was not registered as a full-time student. Held SA out of 3 practices. Rules education. Changed departmental policy.

Women’s Volleyball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to PSA’s father and PSA. Letter of admonishment. No phone calls 28 days. No recruiting contact 30 days with PSAs.

Men’s Basketball 13.4.1.2 A member of the coaching staff sent a text message to PSA’s mother. Letter of admonishment. No phone calls for 14 days. No recruiting contact for 30 days with PSA.

Men’s Tennis 13.1.3.1 A member of the coaching staff placed an impermissible phone call to a prospect. Letter of admonishment. No phone calls for 14 days.

Softball 11.01.5 A member of the coaching staff was impermissibly provided with professional fees and costs associated with attendance at a professional convention. The coach reimbursed the department for the costs. Rules Education.

Soccer 13.02.5.4 A member of the coaching staff evaluated two prospects off campus during a dead period. Rules Education. No off campus recruiting for entire coaching staff for 10 days. No written communication to subject prospects from all coaching staff for 10 days. Subtracted additional evaluation from each prospect. Letter of admonishment
Men’s Basketball 13.6.3 PSA came on official visit prior to being placed on institution’s IRL. Letter of Admonishment. Rules Education.

Football 13.4.1.2 A member of coaching staff sent a text message to a PSA’s father. Rules Education. Letter of Admonishment. No Phone calls for 30 days.

Track and Field 13.1.3.1 A member of coaching staff placed an early telephone call to a PSA’s father. No phone calls for 14 days. Rules Education. Letter of Admonishment.

Football 13.4.1 The football staff provided impermissible documents to prospective student athletes. Education for staff on permissible formats for recruiting documents

Women’s Basketball 13.8.2 After the scheduled basketball camps were cancelled for the summer of 2012, a member of the coaching staff provided camp t-shirts to high school coaches who were scheduled to work at the camps. The coach was banned from any recruiting communications with any prospect for one week, provided education, given admonishment.