Alleged ND Recruiting Violation Reported

[TerryTate]

ND Denies violation in Seantrel Henderson recruitment

ND Denies Reported Violation

 

[TerryTate]

Sounds like this is a non-issue

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Seantrel Henderson in the news again!

I hope this is a non-issue

 

[BGIF]

I edited the title of the thread, Terry, from "Reported Recruiting Violation" to "Alleged ND Recruiting Violation Reported". The Plain Dealer article is hearsay.

Curiously the ND spokeman's comment doesn't deny that there was a secondary violation but rather that ND had not filed a report of a violation.

The NCAA allows people with an prior relationship to have contact with a recruit. Floyd and Henderson went to the same HS and played football together. Pryor had no relationship so he was recruiting according to the NCAA rules.

As a sidebar, while not a recruiting situation an existing relationship was part of the argument against ND being cited for NCAA violations in the Dunbar affair. She gave gifts to players she dated and to others in that circle of friends. That's permissible among family and friends of NCAA athletes. In order to find an infraction the NCAA declared her a booster based on her $25 membership fee in the then ND Quarterback Club.

A half dozen years earlier, Demetrius DuBose had to sit out a game due to an NCAA violaton. He was from Seattle and an ND alumnus who was a family friend and mentor of Demetrius's had give him a winter coat when he left Seattle to attend ND. Although the coat was given months after the Letter of Intent was signed and there was a prior relationship the NCAA ruled in that case there was an "extra benefit" from a "booster" (ND alumnus) and thus a violation.

Prior relationships are a very gray area in the NCAA regs whether it be a contact or a gift.

 

[BGIF]

Sounds like this is a non-issue

It should be BUT if the NCAA found it a violation. It would be a secondary violation, a venial sin in the eyes of NCAA Inquisitors.

 

[SoInIrishFan]

It seems the NCAA violation committee is trying to justify its existence in some of the stated examples.

 

[GreatGolson]

this is nothing, the NCAA have bigger fish to fry down south right now

 

[PatsandBostonfan1975]

I edited the title of the thread, Terry, from "Reported Recruiting Violation" to "Alleged ND Recruiting Violation Reported". The Plain Dealer article is hearsay.

Curiously the ND spokeman's comment doesn't deny that there was a secondary violation but rather that ND had not filed a report of a violation.

The NCAA allows people with an prior relationship to have contact with a recruit. Floyd and Henderson went to the same HS and played football together. Pryor had no relationship so he was recruiting according to the NCAA rules.

As a sidebar, while not a recruiting situation an existing relationship was part of the argument against ND being cited for NCAA violations in the Dunbar affair. She gave gifts to players she dated and to others in that circle of friends. That's permissible among family and friends of NCAA athletes. In order to find an infraction the NCAA declared her a booster based on her $25 membership fee in the then ND Quarterback Club.

A half dozen years earlier, Demetrius DuBose had to sit out a game due to an NCAA violaton. He was from Seattle and an ND alumnus who was a family friend and mentor of Demetrius's had give him a winter coat when he left Seattle to attend ND. Although the coat was given months after the Letter of Intent was signed and there was a prior relationship the NCAA ruled in that case there was an "extra benefit" from a "booster" (ND alumnus) and thus a violation.

Prior relationships are a very gray area in the NCAA regs whether it be a contact or a gift.

You guys really know your stuff.