B. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS OF VIOLATIONS.
The violations found by the committee were as follows:
- A football student-athlete obtained six impermissible deferred-payment
loans, totaling $24,400, that were based primarily on his future earnings as
a professional athlete. These loans were facilitated by representatives of
the institution's athletics interests. The institution failed to obtain the
required documentation for the student-athlete's purchase of disability
insurance. These records would have revealed the existence of at least one
impermissible loan.
- The university lacked institutional control in the review, investigation and
communication of information concerning the amateur status of a second
football student-athlete. By failing to obtain essential information,
corroborate it and share it with one another, the head football coach,
director of athletics, director of compliance and faculty athletics
representative permitted the student-athlete to participate in 11 regular season
football games when he was ineligible.
-The institution's faculty athletics representative violated NCAA standards
of ethical conduct by providing false and misleading information to the NCAA
eligibility appeals staff.
C. SUMMARY OF THE PENALTIES.
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Public Infractions Report
August 2, 1995
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In imposing the following penalties, the Committee on Infractions considered the
corrective actions taken by the university, as detailed in Part III-A of this report.
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Public Infractions Report
August 2, 1995
Page No. 7
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1. The committee adopted as its own the following penalty self-imposed by
the institution:
- Disassociation of two representatives of the institution's athletics
interests.
2. The committee imposed the following additional penalties:
- Public reprimand and censure.
- Three years of probation.
- Prohibition from participating in postseason competition in
football during the 1995-96 academic year.
- Reduction by four in the number of permissible financial aid
awards in football during each of the 1995-96 and 1996-97
academic years. The university self-imposed this reduction for the
1995-96 academic year.
-Reduction in the number of initial financial aid awards in football
by 13 during the 1996-97 academic year and by 9 during the 1997-
98 academic year.
- Forfeiture of the 11 regular-season football games in which an
ineligible student-athlete participated during the 1993-94 academic
year.
- Requirement that the institution continue to develop a
comprehensive athletics compliance education program, with
annual reports to the committee during the period of probation.
- Requirement that the university send four individuals to an NCAA
rules seminar each year of the probation.
- Recertification of current athletics policies and practices.
