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Woo pig sooie! Arkansas might have some explaining to do after this image appeared Sunday on several Razorback message boards. It shows several recruits from this past weekend wearing personalized jerseys and posing for a picture in the team's locker room.
Look closely and you'll also see that the lockers have been personalized with names of the recruits.
Last we checked, creating a false game day environment was a big no-no according to NCAA rules. Can you say secondary violations?
swopes6;1833603; said:What kind of penalties could be expected from something like that?
swopes6;1833603; said:What kind of penalties could be expected from something like that?
Secondary violations can earn coaches suspensions
Just go ahead and call it the Lane Kiffin Rule: coaches who commit NCAA secondary violations in the name of recruiting can now face suspensions of up to two games . The days of head coaches willingly pushing the proverbial envelope and collecting slaps on the wrist like so many Pokemon sound like they may be over:
"This is our request: Anything that has to do with recruiting, if there's a proven violation, we want the ability for the NCAA to say this will cost you a week or a maximum of two weeks," [American Football Coaches Association executive director Grant] Teaff said."We as an association asked for that, and they granted that.The NCAA does make clear that being found guilty of a secondary violation doesn't trigger an automatic suspension, and that "punishment could depend on the circumstances"; the coach or program who slips up somewhere once probably won't get anything more than the usual reprimand.
"We think that's a major step forward."
But some coaches -- like Kiffin during his abbreviated stay at Tennessee -- have seemed to treat the secondary violation as more bureaucratic annoyance than legitimate deterrent. This change is likely aimed at curbing those kinds of serial offenders, or the more obvious, flagrant violations, like recruits-running-out-of-the-tunnel gameday simulations.
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BB73;1833628; said:The NCAA is looking to get tougher on secondary violations, in cases where coaches are repeat offenders.
from his bunker said:As my friend Lee says, not so fast, my friend. We're talking SEC. Do you know as a matter of FACT--I repeat, FACT--that these players knew that they were standing in a locker room in personalized jerseys, in front of lockers with their names on them? For a FACT? I don't think so.
Fratteries;1833622; said:Nothing is going to happen. Big stink about nothing.
swopes6;1833603; said:What kind of penalties could be expected from something like that?
razorbackmike;1833745; said::gobucks3::ho:GS
Poe McKnoe;1833748; said:Clever.
We're going to need restricted access to emoticons.