Notre Dame hit with penalties by the NCAA after violating recruiting rules
Turns out, even Notre Dame bends the rules in recruiting.
On Thursday, the NCAA announced that Brian Kelly’s program had been caught violating recruiting contact rules. The NCAA cites three violations, including one involving a prospect in Seattle.
Interestingly enough, both Florida and Texas A&M have faced punishment for this very same thing — also in Seattle. The key violation here is what’s referred to as the “bump rule,” which comes when a coach or assistant coach comes into contact with a prospect away from a college campus that is not currently in his senior season of high school.
According to the NCAA, Notre Dame committed a Level II violation and two Level III violations after an assistant coach had impermissible off-campus recruiting contact, another sent 10 impermissible text messages and Brian Kelly took a photo with a junior prospect at the recruit’s high school campus.
Here is the full outline of penalties handed down to Notre Dame by the NCAA:
- One year of probation.
- A $5,000 fine.
- A six-month show-cause order for the former assistant football coach, including a one-game suspension at any employing member school.
- Reduced football official visits for the 2020-21 academic year by one.
- Reduced football unofficial visits by 14 days for the 2020-21 academic year.
- A seven-day off-campus recruiting ban for the entire football staff during the 2020-21 academic year.
- The university ended the recruitment of the prospect.
- The university will not recruit any prospects from the high school in Seattle from the 2019-20 through 2021-22 academic years.
I think every team will have a recruiting violation by the end of next season seeing how tight the NCAA has been lately
Agreed. Recruiting rules need a serious review. Right now the NCAA is losing power and clamping down on everything they can to maintain relevancy.
What needs to happen is an examination of the rules, determine if they’re in the best interest of the student, and if not, remove them. Start to build back credibility through actions.
Just do away with all those penalties and create just one for Notre Dame. Ban them from CFP playoff for 2-3 years. Everybody wins. They don’t get beat down and we don’t have to see it.
So basically their punished for the remainder of this semester. Man, these NCAA guys really put the hammer down on a playoff team this time…
I noticed this as well, they either got 2020-2021 academic year confused with the 2021-2022 academic year, or they are just putting on a show with no real substance.
Teams get hit every season with these type of violations but I think this past season has been particularly tough avoiding stuff like this due to covid and the suspension of visits..
With the Covid restrictions impacting normal recruiting like it has, I imagine the NCAA is going to be collecting $5000 fines from just about everybody in the P5…that being said, a six-month show-cause order for the former assistant football coach??? They really threw the book at Kelley didn’t they…lol. Mullet has to be fuming…dmmmm catholics!
when is the power 5 going to DUMP the NCAA? I’d tell them to take a hike. If anyone is old enough to remember Bear tried his best to do just that. Remember the CFA? It is time…
But they never really get hit with any penalties that are going to hurt.