Houston Baptist hit hard by the NCAA ...

[UKvisitor]

over female hosts for recruits program set up by the head coach (Vic Shealy). Nothing even close to U6 scandal.

"The head coach created his own student host program in response to a shortage of allowable hosts for football prospects. The head coach approached his daughter, a student worker in the football office, about serving as a student host. She agreed to do so, and recruited members of her sorority to assist in providing campus tours for prospects. The program did not operate under the university’s regular campus visit policy for host groups. NCAA rules require its members to use student host programs in a manner consistent with the university’s policy for providing campus visits and tours to all prospective students. Additionally, the panel noted the creation of the student host program was contrary to extensive guidance provided by the NCAA that members may not use student host groups exclusively organized and administered within an athletics department."

The head coach failed in his responsibility when he initiated the impermissible student host program, was personally involved in the violations and did not ask the compliance staff about the group he started.

NCAA punishment:
-Public reprimand and censure for the university.
-Two years of probation from Jan. 19, 2018, through Jan. 18, 2020.
-A two-year show-cause period for the head coach from Jan. 19, 2018, through Jan. 18, 2020.
-During that period, he is restricted from engaging in face-to-face recruiting contacts with prospects and their family members for the first week of the contact period in both 2018-19 and 2019-20 years.
-A reduction in the head coach’s recruiting activity by two weeks during the spring 2017 evaluation period (self-imposed by the university).
-A limit of 26 official football visits during each of the two years during probation. The university may begin the reductions with the current academic year or starting with the 2018-19 academic year.
-A reduction in the number of coaches participating in off-campus evaluations by one (from 11 to 10 in the fall and in the spring) during the 2017-18 academic year (self-imposed by the university).
-A reduction in the total number of evaluation days from 210 to 120 during the 2017-18 academic year (self-imposed by the university).

 

[law1127]

That’s the ncaa in a nutshell! Absolutely a joke and irrelevant,and this incident should be nationally publicized,to illustrate their fecklessness and arbitraryness,in over penalizing schools,that are too small and less powerful to properly defend themselves!

 

[cat888]

I guess they got so mad at U6 they took it out on Houston Baptist. LOL

 

[robo222]

Someone had to pay for UofL run amok....

 

[vhcat70]

Didn't know they had a FB team.

 

[seccats04]

So academic fraud is ok but you can't use pretty sorority girls to host recruits on visits? Gotcha.

 

[EliteBlue]

So academic fraud is ok but you can't use pretty sorority girls to host recruits on visits? Gotcha.

Yep, 20 years of making a laughing stock of the "student-athlete" concept by setting up a fake degree with non existent professors and classes is ok because some frat boys found it about it and exploited it for themselves and we can't prove why they did it even though we have emails proving this and having a fake degree only benefits the University if it was designed to keep its athletic programs eligible. But getting a couple sorority girls to give tours....oh no you f'n don't. here comes the hammer. ---
Written by Mark Emmeret
NCAA President
(Grammar intentionally a train wreck bc who has time for class)

 

[UKCatnNC]

The NCAA is a joke and mark emmert is the head joker. Its past time to clean them out. GO CATS!!

 

[docholiday51]

Just when you think the NCAA can't do any more bat shit crazy stuff they prove that they can. In the words of Mark Stoops "we just getting started bro"

 

[Caveman Catfan]

At UL, they had female hosts for football under CCS. They played a game where the kid would be on campus on a tour and they would just happen to run into one of the hostesses, a pretty girl with charisma, who would talk with the recruit and/or his family, depending on who was on the visit. She would then “informally” tag along for the rest of the tour. They had family girls and party girls, depending on the recruit. Recruiting is weird.

 

[katwest]

Yea they are so mad at North Carolina* and Louisville that somebody is going to pay dearly. Now they are mad at Duke for the t shirt, watch out Cleveland State.

 

[bluecoon1]

I think they're actually looking into UL a little harder than usual before they say there was no problem.

 

[0ldSarge]

Yea they are so mad at North Carolina* and Louisville that somebody is going to pay dearly. Now they are mad at Duke for the t shirt, watch out Cleveland State.

The NCAA is a joke. Nothing but good ole boys covering for each other. They need to to be disbanded and a legitimate administration needs to be put in place.

 

[no1gman]

what about ut when l kiffen was coach and had the vol girl hostesses. they even went out of town to recruit. what was their punishment when caught?

 

[Poetax]

over female hosts for recruits program set up by the head coach (Vic Shealy). Nothing even close to U6 scandal.

"The head coach created his own student host program in response to a shortage of allowable hosts for football prospects. The head coach approached his daughter, a student worker in the football office, about serving as a student host. She agreed to do so, and recruited members of her sorority to assist in providing campus tours for prospects. The program did not operate under the university’s regular campus visit policy for host groups. NCAA rules require its members to use student host programs in a manner consistent with the university’s policy for providing campus visits and tours to all prospective students. Additionally, the panel noted the creation of the student host program was contrary to extensive guidance provided by the NCAA that members may not use student host groups exclusively organized and administered within an athletics department."

The head coach failed in his responsibility when he initiated the impermissible student host program, was personally involved in the violations and did not ask the compliance staff about the group he started.

NCAA punishment:
-Public reprimand and censure for the university.
-Two years of probation from Jan. 19, 2018, through Jan. 18, 2020.
-A two-year show-cause period for the head coach from Jan. 19, 2018, through Jan. 18, 2020.
-During that period, he is restricted from engaging in face-to-face recruiting contacts with prospects and their family members for the first week of the contact period in both 2018-19 and 2019-20 years.
-A reduction in the head coach’s recruiting activity by two weeks during the spring 2017 evaluation period (self-imposed by the university).
-A limit of 26 official football visits during each of the two years during probation. The university may begin the reductions with the current academic year or starting with the 2018-19 academic year.
-A reduction in the number of coaches participating in off-campus evaluations by one (from 11 to 10 in the fall and in the spring) during the 2017-18 academic year (self-imposed by the university).
-A reduction in the total number of evaluation days from 210 to 120 during the 2017-18 academic year (self-imposed by the university).

Just think, he could have had a hooker parlor in the dorms and got in less trouble. Who knew?

 

[The-Hack]

This ain't the half of it.

The Southern Baptist Association has gotten wind that there was dancing involved!

Meanwhile at U6, sex whilst standing has been banned for fear that it might lead to dancing!

 

[jauk11]

lol, does any of that come close to Transfer U's sins. And they don't care if the offenses were done in ignorance or not.

I guess they got so mad at U6 they took it out on Houston Baptist. LOL

That really was a classic by Tark the Shark, wasn't it?

 

[cat888]

lol, does any of that come close to Transfer U's sins. And they don't care if the offenses were done in ignorance or not.


That really was a classic by Tark the Shark, wasn't it?

Yes I am getting old couldn't remember his name UNLV Coach and Cleveland State was the team he said was The team NCAA took it out on.

 

[loucatfan]

The NCAA is a joke and mark emmert is the head joker. Its past time to clean them out. GO CATS!!

You are correct .BUT IT IS THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS WHO CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING. IT IS THEIR ORGANIZATION.

Why in the good Lords name would college presidents who consider themselves rather classy, honest, intellectual people put up with a so called leader like Emmert who has time and time embarrassed them so bad that college sports now has the credibility of professional wrestling. WHY WHY WHY? I will wager a guess that money is the major deciding factor and ethics and integrity take a back seat to the green stuff .
And these are the college presidents charged with educating our nations leaders. It really stinks and makes one disinterested in supporting such nonsense.

 

[Big_Blue_Blaster]

That's the NCAA's "Just Us"/justice.

 

[UKCatnNC]

You are correct .BUT IT IS THE COLLEGE PRESIDENTS WHO CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING. IT IS THEIR ORGANIZATION.

Why in the good Lords name would college presidents who consider themselves rather classy, honest, intellectual people put up with a so called leader like Emmert who has time and time embarrassed them so bad that college sports now has the credibility of professional wrestling. WHY WHY WHY? I will wager a guess that money is the major deciding factor and ethics and integrity take a back seat to the green stuff .
And these are the college presidents charged with educating our nations leaders. It really stinks and makes one disinterested in supporting such nonsense.

Thank you for your reply. You are absolutely correct. I often think they would just rather not get involved. - So they just let a big problem get bigger. GO CATS!!!

 

[JumperJack]

So academic fraud is ok but you can't use pretty sorority girls to host recruits on visits? Gotcha.

Well clearly if all students had been able to have access to the hosts it would have been all good.

 

[FilsonCat]

UL must have shipped their stained ceiling tiles down to Houston. From now on, UL will ensure that player dorm ceilings have impermeable easy wash coatings, for those "extra demanding" recruiting parties.

 

[truebluewildcat]

Surprised the Title 9ers haven't risen up and started screaming about how females can be hosts just as well as men...

This is the oldest trick in the book. Making sure some talent is around and easily seen when the talent is visiting...I suppose the NCAA will begin to move out cheer leading?

Hell, the coal lodge was moved from lexington avenue side of the joe craft center to the Rose Street side, aka "Sorority Row"...

Every athletic department has an army of cute little tutors, marketing interns, etc...and every official/authorized recruiting dept person knows what routes to take when taking recruits on a tour, and I assure you the science technology engineering and math quad is not the high light of said tours...