OKLA21FAN
10/26/2007, 07:45 AM
Fing 'self reporting', bites another University in the BUTT.
i am beginning to believe more and more that the 'best' route to take when a University finds 'wrong doing', is to cover it up as much as possible, and not co-oporate with the NCAA (see USC/Bush)
Arkansas track is stripped of two national titles
By NOAH TRISTER Associated Press
10/26/2007
NCAA punishes Hogs for violations involving Gay and former assistant.
LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas' renowned track and field program lost two national championships Thursday when the NCAA imposed stiff sanctions for violations involving sprint star Tyson Gay and a former assistant coach.
The Razorbacks also received three years' probation. University Chancellor John White said the school plans to appeal.
"As we previously acknowledged, the violations in this case primarily involved a rogue former assistant coach and one student-athlete over a short period of time," White said. "We are disappointed with the penalties imposed by the infractions committee and believe they are disproportionate to the violations."
Razorbacks coach John McDonnell has built one of the top college programs in any sport over more than three decades with the school. Arkansas has won 40 national titles in track and field and cross country, not counting the two that were taken away from the 2004 and 2005 men's outdoor track and field titles.
Arkansas had self-reported violations committed by former assistant Lance Brauman, who was convicted last year
of embezzlement, theft and mail fraud. The convictions stemmed from his time at Barton County Community College in Kansas, part of a scandal that spawned charges against seven Barton County coaches and the athletic director and led to the firing of the school's president. Brauman was coaching Arkansas when he was convicted.
Neither the university's self-report nor the NCAA named Gay, who won the world championship this year at 100 and 200 meters. But Brauman's mail-fraud indictment identified the athlete, who transferred from Barton County to Arkansas.
"The violations involved unethical conduct by the former assistant coach, as well as an admitted failure to monitor by the university," said Josephine R. Potuto, chair of the Division I committee on infractions. "The underlying violations were not egregious in and of themselves, but in combination they formed a major case."
The school released a statement with White's response and said it would have no further comment pending its appeal.
The university had acknowledged that Brauman and his wife provided impermissible transportation for the athlete and helped arrange lodging for him during the summer of 2003, prior to his enrollment at Arkansas. The school also reported that Brauman or his wife helped the student enroll in a correspondence course in a way that constituted improper assistance, and that Brauman asked his sister-in-law to tutor the student and helped arrange proctors for tests in the correspondence course.
"The university did a first-rate job in its investigation . . . (but the university) is back before the committee for the third time in 10 years. It's a repeat violator for the second time, " Potuto said.
i am beginning to believe more and more that the 'best' route to take when a University finds 'wrong doing', is to cover it up as much as possible, and not co-oporate with the NCAA (see USC/Bush)
Arkansas track is stripped of two national titles
By NOAH TRISTER Associated Press
10/26/2007
NCAA punishes Hogs for violations involving Gay and former assistant.
LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas' renowned track and field program lost two national championships Thursday when the NCAA imposed stiff sanctions for violations involving sprint star Tyson Gay and a former assistant coach.
The Razorbacks also received three years' probation. University Chancellor John White said the school plans to appeal.
"As we previously acknowledged, the violations in this case primarily involved a rogue former assistant coach and one student-athlete over a short period of time," White said. "We are disappointed with the penalties imposed by the infractions committee and believe they are disproportionate to the violations."
Razorbacks coach John McDonnell has built one of the top college programs in any sport over more than three decades with the school. Arkansas has won 40 national titles in track and field and cross country, not counting the two that were taken away from the 2004 and 2005 men's outdoor track and field titles.
Arkansas had self-reported violations committed by former assistant Lance Brauman, who was convicted last year
of embezzlement, theft and mail fraud. The convictions stemmed from his time at Barton County Community College in Kansas, part of a scandal that spawned charges against seven Barton County coaches and the athletic director and led to the firing of the school's president. Brauman was coaching Arkansas when he was convicted.
Neither the university's self-report nor the NCAA named Gay, who won the world championship this year at 100 and 200 meters. But Brauman's mail-fraud indictment identified the athlete, who transferred from Barton County to Arkansas.
"The violations involved unethical conduct by the former assistant coach, as well as an admitted failure to monitor by the university," said Josephine R. Potuto, chair of the Division I committee on infractions. "The underlying violations were not egregious in and of themselves, but in combination they formed a major case."
The school released a statement with White's response and said it would have no further comment pending its appeal.
The university had acknowledged that Brauman and his wife provided impermissible transportation for the athlete and helped arrange lodging for him during the summer of 2003, prior to his enrollment at Arkansas. The school also reported that Brauman or his wife helped the student enroll in a correspondence course in a way that constituted improper assistance, and that Brauman asked his sister-in-law to tutor the student and helped arrange proctors for tests in the correspondence course.
"The university did a first-rate job in its investigation . . . (but the university) is back before the committee for the third time in 10 years. It's a repeat violator for the second time, " Potuto said.