INDIANAPOLIS--- The Georgia Institute of Technology committed violations in its football and men's basketball programs, according to findings by the Division I Committee on Infractions. The university was cited for a lack of cooperation during the investigation, a failure to meet the conditions and obligations of membership, and preferential treatment violations. There were additional violations in the men's basketball program related to rules stemming from a nonscholastic basketball tournament conducted on the university's campus, which the public report further details.

Penalties include a $100,000 fine, recruiting restrictions, vacation of records and four years probation.

citing the troubling nature of the case, the committee stated in its report, "This case provides a cautionary tale of conduct that member institutions should avoid while under investigation for violations of NCAA rules."

According to the committee, the university's failure to cooperate and meet the obligations of membership compounded the seriousness of the case by adding onto what was originally an isolated instance of impermissible benefits and preferential treatment.

Georgia Tech failed to cooperate and protect the integrity of the investigation when its staff members provided information to a football student-athlete regarding the scope of his upcoming interview, according to the committee findings. The university provided this information despite specific instructions by the enforcement staff, which the committee concluded impeded the investigation and hindered efforts to get to the truth in the case.

The committee noted that due to the NCAA's lack of subpoena power, cooperation from schools and individuals is critical to ensuring complete information can be gathered and analyzed.

The university also failed to meet conditions and obligations of membership when it did not withhold another football student-athlete from competition after being made aware of information that raised serious questions about his eligibility. Specifically, the student-athlete received several items of clothing, valued at approximately $312, from a friend of a sports agency employee. Rather than declaring the student-athlete ineligible, the university allowed him to compete in the three final contests of the 2009-10 football season, including the conference championship game and bowl competition.

"It appeared to the committee that the institution attempted to manipulate the information surrounding potential violations involving (the student-athlete) so there would be enough doubt about its validity to justify the decision not to declare him ineligible," the independent body stated in its report.

The committee also noted the university took these actions despite information reported by the student-athlete, another football student-athlete and an assistant football coach regarding the potential agent involvement in preferential treatment benefits. The university subsequently barred the agency employee, a former student-athlete, from the university's training facilities and denied him access to complimentary tickets to athletic contests. However, it did not follow up on the information regarding the involvement of the agency employee with the football student-athlete.

When determining the appropriate penalties, the committee took into account the university's repeat violator status. The penalties, some of which were self-imposed by the university and adopted by the committee, include:

•Public reprimand and censure.
•Four years of probation from July 14, 2011 through July 13, 2015. The public report further details the conditions of this probation.
•A $100,000 financial penalty.
•A reduction of two men's basketball recruiting days during the 2011 summer evaluation period (self-imposed by the university).
•A limit of 10 official visits for men's basketball for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.
•A vacation of all contests won by the football team during the 2009 season after November 24, which is when the university was alerted to the potential eligibility issues.
The members of the Division I Committee on Infractions who reviewed this case include Dennis Thomas, the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and chair of the Committee on Infractions. Other members are Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., attorney; Thomas Yeager, commissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association; Greg Sankey, associate commissioner of compliance for the Southeastern Conference; Eleanor Myers, faculty athletics representative and law professor at Temple University; Melissa Conboy, deputy director of athletics at the University of Notre Dame; James O'Fallon, law professor and faculty athletics representative for the University of Oregon; and Britton Banowsky, commissioner of Conference USA
DDB

7/14/2011 3:15:56 PM

[old]

I put it in the college football thread

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=611298&page=5

[Edited on July 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM. Reason : .]

7/14/2011 3:17:41 PM

what a useless thread

7/14/2011 3:20:28 PM

you're sister is terrible at head, but I let her do it anyways to know what a real cock looks like compared to yours.

7/14/2011 3:23:24 PM

All things considered, that's a hell of a deal for GT

7/14/2011 3:24:26 PM

THE

7/14/2011 3:25:27 PM

this is THE most annoying thing in sports talk aside from the millions of "official" threads.

7/14/2011 3:28:15 PM

in

7/14/2011 3:29:09 PM

Pics included only because its a bucky thread.

7/14/2011 3:29:54 PM

I'm just copypasting from his NBA draft masterpiece

7/14/2011 3:30:33 PM

I don't really see what the problem is with separate threads for this stuff. It's not like Sports Talk just has too many threads going at once.

7/14/2011 3:31:07 PM

7/14/2011 3:32:29 PM

You're right. Excuse me while I make a thread about Dirk's suit at the ESPY's.

7/14/2011 3:32:57 PM

I didn't see the ESPYs so that could actually provide me with valuable or entertaining information, go for it

7/14/2011 3:34:54 PM

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"[old] I put it in the college football thread http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=611298&page=5"

Why did you put 2009 violations in a thread about the 2011 season. Won't the punishments for this be ineffective until the 2012 season anyway?

(serious question, will they have to start cutting immediately due to the scholarship losses or is it just effective after this season)

7/14/2011 3:41:42 PM

well, if you read what I put in the college football thread, you will see that their probation begins TODAY, which does effect the 2011 season.

7/14/2011 3:45:36 PM

I like how Bucky never follows up, just goes on the prowl looking for the next breaking news article

7/14/2011 3:46:26 PM

i like how the pics have a yellow jacket (or bee) and works on two levels. that's rad.

7/14/2011 3:47:45 PM

Thats not a bee, thats JERRY SEINFELD

7/14/2011 3:48:36 PM

she was MURDERED..by ^

7/14/2011 3:51:40 PM

WINNER WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7/14/2011 3:59:06 PM

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"well, if you read what I put in the college football thread, you will see that their probation begins TODAY, which does effect the 2011 season. "

Does it? As I understand NCAA probation all it means is that they have to follow the rules completely during the probation period or they'll actually get the penalties they should have gotten this time around.

They aren't banned from any post-season play, so other than possibly having to cut a few 3d stringers what on-the-field effect will this actually have this season?

Unless I'm missing something, if so then please explain it to me.

7/14/2011 5:21:38 PM

when DG said the NCAA was coming down on an ACC school today (before the announcement/word got out about who/what) I was like, FUCK, some PED shit gonna hit NCSU.

7/14/2011 5:24:41 PM

^I was coming back from Roseboro and listening. DG teased that like four times.


Then he went on some spiel about how more people watched the men's soccer team play Ghana than watched the women's team play Brazil. Except the way he said it took ten minutes.

7/14/2011 6:08:39 PM

looks like a

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"hell of a deal"

7/14/2011 6:22:09 PM

Look, I'm not going into the blanket threads every fucking day to catch every tidbit of news. I come to the forum and scan the titles.

Thank you OP for posting this here.

If it is legitimate news, fucking post it.

If it's a China Grove Little League baseball fans 2012 thread, it probably doesn't fucking belong but people do it anyway.

7/14/2011 6:37:03 PM

THIS MEANS WE'VE STILL GOT A SHOT AT BEING 2009 CHAMPS!

GO PACK!

7/14/2011 6:44:54 PM

I see no reason why this shouldn't have it's own thread. It's ACC related and big news. Now if Alamance Community College had a player arrested or something, that's not threadworthy...

7/14/2011 11:04:15 PM

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"Does it? As I understand NCAA probation all it means is that they have to follow the rules completely during the probation period or they'll actually get the penalties they should have gotten this time around. They aren't banned from any post-season play, so other than possibly having to cut a few 3d stringers what on-the-field effect will this actually have this season? Unless I'm missing something, if so then please explain it to me."

you asked me to tie it to 2011 since I put it in that thread and I did. They are on probation--whatever that means or doesn't mean--effective immediately which effects the 2011 season, you asked for a reason, I gave it to you.

7/15/2011 10:10:09 AM

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"I was coming back from Roseboro and listening. DG teased that like four times. Then he went on some spiel about how more people watched the men's soccer team play Ghana than watched the women's team play Brazil. Except the way he said it took ten minutes."

yeh, that was pissing me off. i normally like DG, but holy shit he took forever on the soccer thing. it would have taken 30 damn seconds to say what he did, but he stretched that shit out big time. guess they needed a time filler.

7/15/2011 10:13:35 AM

^ that applies to every single thing he talks about.

7/15/2011 11:00:33 AM

HOLD THAT TIGER

HOLD THAT TIGER

WHERE'S THAT TIGER?

HOLD THAT TIGER

7/15/2011 11:03:13 AM