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Lou Holtz (Official Thread)

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Updated: July 13, 2005, 5:03 PM ET
Gamecocks admit 5 major infractions under Holtz
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina admitted to 10 NCAA violations committed under former football coach Lou Holtz in a report released Wednesday.

Five of the violations were classified as major.

The report was prepared jointly by the NCAA enforcement staff and the university and has been forwarded to the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, which can accept, reject or modify the proposed penalties.

The school found violations occurred when prospective student-athletes were given impermissible tutoring sessions and offseason workouts from 1999-2002.

South Carolina was also found to have a lack of institutional control.

The school proposed two years of probation, a reduction from 56 to 50 paid campus visits for football recruits this year and next; and a loss of two football scholarships for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years.

School officials said Tom Perry, former senior associate athletic director for academic support services, and Pat Moorer, former strength and conditioning coach, are no longer with the school.

Holtz retired at the end of last season and was replaced by Steve Spurrier.
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South Carolina Admits to NCAA Violations
 
I think ESPN can explain this. It all goes back to Lou's days on Woody's staff of the 1968 NC squad. :tongue2:

According to this quote, it looks like the NCAA found half of the violations after the first 5 were self-reported. It doesn't say how many of the major violations were self-reported.

"Any violation of the NCAA legislation is unacceptable, and I regret that five violations not previously discovered by the athletics department were discovered," said Mike McGee, who retired after more than 12 years as South Carolina's AD last month.
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I found this article in ESPN the Magazine...

South Carolina Admits to Voilations by Former Buckeye Assistant Holtz
By Tom Friend

ANN ARBOR - Hello, my name is Tom Friend. I write stories. In my spare time, I like to be that guy who takes the last beer from the fridge AND the last slice of pizza, because I'm a douchebag like that. Andy Geiger and Jim Tressel can suck my balls - but only when Dennis Dodd is done fondling them.
 
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This is from an updated AP story on SI.com:

si.com

The only violation that directly names Holtz is a secondary one in which the former coach talked to two prospects with a media member present.

The most serious violations were aimed at administrators and coaches no longer employed by the athletic department. The report found former senior associate athletic director for academic support services Tom Perry arranged for impermissible tutoring help during the summer of 2001 for two prospective players who were coming from two-year colleges. After the incident was self-reported that Sept. 11, Perry declared the athletes ineligible and made the players make restitution for the tutoring.

However, the report found the school's documents had not said the athletes played in two games while ineligible and understated the value of the help they received.

In another major violation, Perry was found to have "knowingly allowed the institution's director of compliance to prepare and submit an incomplete and inaccurate self-report of the tutoring incident to the conference office and to the NCAA, and created an environment that discouraged reporting of possible NCAA rules violation by his subordinates."

One witness told investigators that Perry had an "attitude of getting things done any way he could," the report said.

"The institution finds no excuse for the former administrator's conduct and agrees that ... [Perry] exhibited unethical behavior as defined by NCAA legislation," the report said.

Perry, who won a national award for his support program in 2003, left the university last year.

Also named in the findings was Pat Moorer, South Carolina's former director of strength and conditioning. The report said on some occasions between 1999 and 2002, some athletes thought offseason workouts "to be nonvoluntary."

While the report said Moorer was found to be the principal actor in the violation, it did not warrant an unethical conduct charge.

Another previously reported violation detailed contact between then-Gov. Jim Hodges, an ex-officio member of the school's board of trustees, and prospective recruits. Hodges said the transgression came when he was taking one of his sons to get ice cream and happened by a recruit. "It all seemed pretty innocent to me," Hodges said.

The NCAA report also said South Carolina showed "a lack of appropriate control of monitoring" in aspects of the department.
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scarletandgrey said:
It will be nice to finally get those douche's at espn off of our backs and on someones elses for a change.
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This will get very little play on ESPiN. It may be mentioned in passing on SC tonight, but then it will be an after thought. This is not sexy or sensational and they didn't "break" the story before the investigation.

Their coverage of S.Carolina in regards to these violations will be further evidence of their agenda to bring down a major player in the college football world. Bashing OSU sells, nobody cares about uSC.
 
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NOTREDAMECHIEF said:
LOL! And what did Dunbar have to do with Lou or ND for that matter?
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Hmmm, reading never hurts...

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Verdana]The case dates back several years, when Dunbar, a member of the now-defunct Quarterback Club, embezzled $1.2 million from her employer, Dominiack Mechanical, Inc., of South Bend. She reportedly spent $18,000 of that on former Irish football players, funding gifts including trips to Las Vegas and Chicago.[/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, Verdana]Now, Notre Dame officials expect the University to face a major violation, according to an Aug. 7 article in The Chicago Tribune. The report cited an anonymous source who said the committee would likely decide that staff members under former head coach Lou Holtz did not bring information about Dunbar's gifts to the attention of Notre Dame compliance officials quickly enough.[/font]
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