NCAA upholds Missouri's postseason ban
The Arkansas game doesn’t mean as much to Missouri as it did to start the week.
That’s because the NCAA appeals committee has finally made its decision on Missouri’s appeal — the postseason ban, as well as all the punishments handed down, have been upheld.
This news has been officially announced by Missouri and was being reported by Gabe DeArmond of PowerMizzou.com.
Missouri currently has a 5-6 record and was hoping a win against Arkansas in Little Rock would get the team to the postseason for the third consecutive season.
The NCAA originally announced penalties against Missouri 10 months ago following the discovery of a “rogue tutor” that was helping student-athletes with their class work. No current Missouri athletes are among those that were aided with their work by the tutor.
Since that time, Missouri has been fighting the NCAA’s decision after working hand and hand with NCAA investigators working on the case in Columbia.
Here is an outline of the punishments handed down by the NCAA that are all being upheld.
- Three years of probation.
- A 10-year show-cause order for the former tutor. During that period, any NCAA member school employing the tutor must restrict her from any athletically related duties.
- A 2018-19 postseason ban for the baseball and softball programs.
- A 2019-20 postseason ban for the football program.
- A vacation of records in which football, baseball and softball student-athletes competed while ineligible. The university must provide a written report containing the matches impacted to the NCAA media coordination and statistics staff within 45 days of the public decision release.
- A 5 percent reduction in the amount of scholarships in each of the football, baseball and softball programs during the 2019-20 academic year.
- Recruiting restrictions for each of the football, baseball and softball programs during the 2019-20 academic year, including:
- 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 recruiting contacts and evaluations.
- A 12.5 percent reduction in recruiting-person or evaluation days.
- A disassociation of the tutor. Details of the disassociation can be found in the public report (self-imposed by the university).
- A fine of $5,000 plus 1 percent of each of the football, baseball and softball budgets.
Well, that’s a bummer, but regardless of their decision this team had the opportunity to make a statement and dropped the ball. I had hoped for an us vs. the world kind of attitude, but we didn’t get it.
This is total BS. Feel bad for Missouri and their fans. Other big name schools get away with cheating, but the NCAA has to make an example out of Missouri.
I agree
NCAA is such a joke. It would be fitting if another organization replaces them.
So much for any team ever cooperating with the NCAA ever again. The NCAA was already beginning to become less relevant….falling under the weight of their own stupidity while failing to address the whole player compensation (whatever form it may eventually take) for the last several years. Now, add in that no school will ever fully cooperate with them again, and they are officially going to be extinct. What’s said is they don’t realize they are the ones responsible for signing their own death certificate.
If we are going to pay the student athletes then the NCAA becomes irrelevant since the status of “amateur athlete” no longer exists.
As far as the NCAA enforcing “rules” we already know what a joke they are, so why not just throw them and their money grubbing organization out the window and start over?
I’m just curious why we care what a self-appointed group of SELF-SERVING individuals say about our eligibility. This makes about as much sense as Donald Trump becoming the president. Penny Hardaway has the right idea. There is truly nothing the NCAA can do if the schools just stand up to the bully and the hypocrisy. It’s time to take a stand.
The NCAA is a joke. Arbitrary bowl bans. Arbitrary transfer eligibility. Well, it isn’t arbitrary – they choose based on wallet.
The tutor in question committed fraud NOT at the behest of the University. Any other athletic competing secondary education institute would be an utter fool to let her on their campus.
That said, MU is partly to blame by having a soft(in the head) administration that hires this kind of human debris, clearly sports are an afterthought at Mizzou.
It’s time for Mizzou to do a 180, starting with cleaning out the Football program and the ADs office, along with the soft headed Administration that likes the crybaby sjw safe space campus crowd. The next time the NCAA comes knocking, hunker down and tell them to get lost.
Either that or just give up on sports all together and be a liberal sjw safe space footed by the tax payers of Missouri. Time to stop fiddling around.
It’s getting hard to find ways the NCAA is actually beneficial for it’s members and student-athletes anymore. Unless of course you’re one of the few blue-bloods out there. From what I read Mizzou did everything right in handling this situation with the tudor, and the NCAA even acknowledged they were rogue and not under any direction by the Athletic Dept. The only mistake they made was actually self-reporting it to the NCAA, apparently.
All of yall are forgetting that this was for 2016 infractions. The same year that Mizzou had also had issues with impermissible benefits by the basketball team and was hit with a failure to monitor. So a year later they report another massive violation from the same time period they were hit with failure to monitor…that is again a failure to monitor. So yes the AD should have been ready for a rejection from the NCAA given it was another failure to monitor.
Yes, I’m sure THAT’S IT, hoops violations from a year earlier, that are a separate case, and these are self reported so the “failure to monitor” is a bit in error.
It couldn’t be that the NCAA infractions committee has bevo’s on it, you know the school that blames the SEC for breaking up the former B12. I’m sure it’s NOT THAT at all.