The University of Alabama athletic department reported 27 secondary NCAA violations since July 4, 2011, according to a document released on the school’s website.
The list, released Tuesday, included six violations in men’s basketball and four in football. Over half of the total violations involved impermissible contact with recruits via text messaging, phone calls and Facebook.
Other sports with reported violations included women’s tennis, track and field, gymnastics, women’s basketball, softball, baseball, women’s volleyball, soccer and one within the compliance department itself.
Corrective action was taken in each of the 27 instances, most of which included some form of rules education, a letter of admonishment and in instances of improper contact, a ban from recruiting or contact with prospective student athletes.
The football violations included a student athlete receiving an early scholarship check, a coach accepting a recruit’s friend request two days before it was permissible to, a coach texting a recruit’s father and a member of the staff providing impermissible documents to a prospective student athlete.
Five of the six men’s basketball violations involved impermissible text messages. The compliance department’s violation involved a recruit taking an official visit before UA had received his or her test scores.
The most significant corrective actions involved a baseball coach who sent text messages to multiple recruits. The coach received an 84-day ban on recruiting and a 90-day recruiting ban was placed on the prospective student athlete.
Violations of this nature typically don’t involve any form of NCAA sanctions, especially since UA self-reported the violations.
You can view the document released by UA below.
