Pittsburgh is the latest collegiate athletic program to find itself in the NCAA’s crosshairs as the Division I Committee on Infractions has announced several violations were committed by the school’s football and basketball programs.

According to the NCAA, the main violations committed by both Pitt sports programs stem from allowing “noncoaching staff members,” or analysts/quality control coaches as they are most often referred to in coaching circles, to coach Pittsburgh players. This is a violation as it allowed Pitt to exceed the number of permissible coaches on staff for both sports programs.

The NCAA states former Pitt head coach Kevin Stallings was made aware that he was committing an NCAA violation but did not stop the practice of allowing his analysts to coach his players. The Pitt basketball program also committed several recruiting violations according to the NCAA’s findings.

Following an investigation, the NCAA has given Coach Stallings a three-year show-cause order. Stallings resigned after only two seasons at Pitt after leading the program to a 24-41 overall record and a 4-32 conference mark.

Here’s an outline of all the penalties the NCAA has handed down to the Pittsburgh sports programs:

  • Three years of probation.
  • A $5,000 fine plus 0.5% of each of the men’s basketball and football budgets.
  • A show-cause order for the head football coach withholding him from two days of team practices in August 2020. He also did not participate in one week of off-campus recruiting during the Dec. 1, 2019, through Feb. 1, 2020, contact period.
  • A three-year show-cause order for the former men’s basketball coach. If he is employed by a member school during that time, he must be suspended from 30% of the first season of his employment.
  • A three-year show-cause order for the former director of basketball operations. During that period, any NCAA member school employing him must restrict him from any athletically related duties unless it shows cause why the restrictions should not apply.
  • A reduction in men’s basketball recruiting person days by 17 during the 2017-18 academic year.
  • A reduction in the number of men’s basketball countable coaches by one at regular practice for 16 hours during the 2019-20 academic year.
  • A reduction in men’s basketball countable athletically related activities hours in the spring of 2020 from 20 to 18 (in-season) and eight to seven (out-of-season).
  • A reduction of countable athletically related activities for the football program by eight hours and the number of countable coaches by one for two days of practice during the 2018 football season.
  • A reduction in the number of football countable coaches by one for four days of practice in the 2019-20 academic year.
  • Two football quality control staff members must be removed from practice for three days during the 2019-20 academic year.