NCAA cracks down on Syracuse University with probation, loss of scholarships, suspension of Jim Boeheim
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The NCAA announced Friday its sanctions for Syracuse University, which include a five-year probation, scholarship reductions, vacation of wins and a nine-game suspension for men's basketball head coach Jim Boeheim.
The NCAA announced Friday its sanctions for Syracuse University, which include a five-year probation, scholarship reductions, vacation of wins and a 9-game suspension for men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim.
SU men’s basketball and football were both placed on five years’ probation, according to the 94-page report released by the NCAA. The NCAA ordered SU basketball to lose three scholarships a year for four years.
The NCAA did not impose any further postseason bans. The violations began in 2001 and the SU men’s basketball program will have to forfeit an unknown number of wins from the seasons of 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2010-11 and 2011-12.
The sanctions are in connection to an NCAA investigation that was initiated in 2007 when the university self-reported potential violations within the athletics department. No current student athlete was involved in the investigation.
“Although the University recognizes the seriousness of the violations it has acknowledged, it respectfully disagrees with certain findings of the Committee,”said Chancellor Kent Syverud in an SU News release. “Specifically, the University strongly disagrees that it failed to maintain institutional control over its athletics programs, or that Men’s Basketball Head Coach Jim Boeheim has taken actions that justify a finding that he was responsible for the rules violations.”
SU self-reported 10 violations in the case and the violations found, “included impermissible academic assistance and services, the head basketball coach’s failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance and monitor his staff, and the school’s lack of control over its athletics program.”
The announcement comes more than 100 days after SU officials and coaches traveled to Chicago for a hearing in front of the NCAA Committee on Infractions. Sanctions are typically announced 30-60 days after a hearing.
Chancellor Kent Syverud announced on Feb. 4 a one-year, self-imposed postseason ban on the men’s basketball team for this season. The ban includes the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, the National Invitational Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.
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Official NCAA 94-page release
Syracuse Final Public Infractions Decision
Published on March 6, 2015 at 12:06 pm
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