NCAA issues Rutgers football with notice of rules violations

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Seven possible violations, all under Kyle Flood's watch.

The NCAA charges that Flood provided former cornerback Nadir Barnwell with an impermissible extra benefit by directly contacting a professor seeking special consideration for Barnwell in an academic course relating to the 2014-2015 academic year. In addition, it's believed that Flood is charged with failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance in the football program, violating the principles of NCAA head coach responsibility legislation.
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Yeoman

December 20th, 2016 at 5:59 PM ^

The NCAA has accepted Rutgers University's self-imposed penalties. Rutgers will vacate its four victories from the 2015 season. In addition, former head coach Kurt Flood and former Athletic Director Julie Hermann will be required to attend all Rutgers University home football games through the 2026 season. Both individuals will be monitored to ensure compliance with a stipulation that they be present, awake, and sober throughout each event.

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mGrowOld

December 20th, 2016 at 1:53 PM ^

It does make my wonder if this the NCAA doing ANYTHING they can to avoid having to deal with the far bigger problem in the SEC.  But they're a cash-cow so nobody wants to do anything about that - easier to send their enforcement team up to New Jersey to keep poor fucking Rutgers in line.

Reminds me of last night.  Newton gets a helmet to helmet hit while sliding and yet HE gets the penalty call cause he vicously flipped the ball to the guy who speared him.

 

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superstringer

December 20th, 2016 at 2:01 PM ^

Unrelated to Rutgers football but tangentially related to Rutgers basketball ... I just noticed Rutgers's basketball team is 11-1 right now.   But have you seen their OOC schedule?  How or why does the B1G let them get away with this:

Molley (home win) (no I have no clue what a Molley is) (D-II)
Drexler (home win)
DePaul (road win)
Niagara (home win)
North Texas (home win)
Hartford (home win)
Miami (YTM) (road loss)
Morgan St. (home win)
Central Connecticut State (home win)
Stoney Brook (road win)
Fairleigh Dickenson (home win)
Fordham (home win)
the Hall (upcoming road game)

That's... pathetic.  Some top high school teams would go 12-0 against that schedule.  Kentucky's water boys would beat all those teams by an average of 35 pts/game.  Not a single ranked team; only one power conference team (ACC), unless you count the Big East (two).  The mere fact RU plays that schedule is going to drag down every B1G team's resume at the end of the year.
 

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LSAClassOf2000

December 20th, 2016 at 2:39 PM ^

All Kyle Flood had to do was try and shake a passing grade out of that professor for all 66,000 or so students enrolled at Rutgers. It may have taken him an entire season to make all the calls, but at least it would have been a season away from football and it could very well be the case that Rutgers could have been better for it. Well, "better" for Rutgers being that they keep losses a bit closer, but still....

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1VaBlue1

December 20th, 2016 at 3:07 PM ^

They were cheating, and STILL sucked that bad?  Egads!!  Vacate a win, and give us one back for that season...

(Ughh, it hurts to even have to say that...)

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Bando Calrissian

December 20th, 2016 at 3:11 PM ^

How long did it really need to take for this stuff to turn into an NCAA issue? It was all over the place when this happened. Google "Kyle Flood professor" and a detailed timeline of real-time reporting is right there. Slow on the freaking uptake out there in the home office.

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RGard

December 20th, 2016 at 3:17 PM ^

Fuck the NCAA.  Any organization that rolls back sanctions of a program that hid a child molester for 10+ years has lost all credibility forever.  I'm looking at you, Penn State.

Burn it down and replace it with something else.

You can take that arson suggestion to mean the NCAA and Penn State.

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drzoidburg

December 20th, 2016 at 8:30 PM ^

When the SEC talks of replacing it, they mean an organization that would not have punished even pedo state or wouldn't even be looking into ole miss now. They want to get away with murder, literally. Times have changed greatly, and that also explains the ridiculous leniency

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drzoidburg

December 20th, 2016 at 8:27 PM ^

under this theory, they should not have punished penn state at all

taking long gives recruits time to look elsewhere knowing the hammer is coming, and you give current players the ability to transfer without losing a year, solved

although, even those not directly involved likely knew there's cheating, so not sure how innocent anyone is when this happens

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