Report: Auburn athletics self-reported 33 NCAA violations over the past two academic years
By Andrew Olson
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Records obtained by AL.com show that the Auburn’s athletics department self-reported 33 NCAA secondary violations over the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years.
The football program was responsible for three secondary violations in 2014-2015 and four in 2015-2016, the most of any sport by AL.com’s tally.
Text messages sent to a recruit in the weekend prior to National Signing Day, a time when only e-mails were permitted, resulted in two of the first-year violations.
In the 2015-2016 year an assistant no longer with the program made two phone calls to a recruit when it was not permitted. The other violation stems from an assistant in the recruiting office encouraging fans to post happy birthday messages on a recruit’s Facebook. The penalties for those violations involved admonishment and education on policy, according to the report.
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