Date: December 13, 2000
Violation Sumary: Violations of NCAA bylaws governing recruiting, extra benefits, academic fraud and unethical conduct.
Penalty Summary: Public reprimand and censure; two years of probation; the number of expense-paid visits to the institution's campus in football limited; reduction of the number of football coaches permitted to recruit off-campus by one during the 2001-02 academic year; vacation of team record and individual records of the student-athlete who engaged in academic fraud, further, the university's records regarding football will be reconfigured to reflect the vacation of the ten contests in which the student-athlete competed during the 1998 season and so recorded in all publications in which football records for that season are reported; show-cause against the former assistant football coach named in the report for a period of seven years; annual reports and recertification.