Report: Alabama football self-reports 9 minor NCAA violations
By Andrew Olson
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The Alabama athletic department self-reported 22 violations to the NCAA according to a records request by TideSports.com. Nine of the violations, the most of any UA program, came from football.
TideSports.com requested the athletic department’s records regarding violations over the past year (July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017). Jones notes the violations are Level III and Level IV, considered to be minor violations. The NCAA defines Level III violations as a breach of conduct which does not provide an advantage in recruiting or competition and Level IV violations as technical violations and inadvertent and isolated incidents.
Ben Jones, the article’s author, has recapped some of the violations in the article and on Twitter.
Most interesting violation? An assistant football coach was suspended a game for impermissible contact w/ recruit. https://t.co/qDumRM1jNs
— Ben Jones (@BW_Jones) June 30, 2017
Other violations cited by Jones are a football player selling multiple pieces of “institutional issued items and participation awards,” a staffer who was not a coach providing instruction to a player during a game and a player tweeting about hosting a recruit on an official visit. Last year, Alabama self-reported 19 violations for the 2015-16 season, including five by the football team.
More details of the violations are being discussed on Twitter.
An unnamed #Alabama football player sold school-issued gear. He was suspended for the first 4 games of '16 & forced to pay $820 to a charity
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) June 30, 2017
Specifically he "inadvertently used a wrong number for a coach &
called prospective student-athlete
prior to September 1 of his senior
year" https://t.co/kbxJC5RLmy— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) June 30, 2017
An unnamed #Alabama football player sold school-issued gear. He was suspended for the first 4 games of '16 & forced to pay $820 to a charity
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) June 30, 2017
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