NCAA Upholds Show-Cause Order For Coach Johnnie Cole

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HOUSTON -- The NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee has upheld a three-year show-cause order for former Texas Southern football coach Johnnie Cole.

Cole was given the order for failing to promote an atmosphere for compliance, and the order prohibits him from all on- and off-campus recruiting activities until October 2015. He contested that finding, but the committee found that the information in the record was enough to uphold the finding of the violation.

The appeal came after the Division I Infractions Committee determined in October 2012 that the school allowed 129 student-athletes in 13 sports in seven academic years to compete and receive financial aid and travel expenses while ineligible. That report found that Cole knowingly allowed a booster to recruit for the program and that former men's basketball coach Tony Harvey provided misleading information during the investigation.

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In case you aren't familiar with the penalties already in place...

http://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/TSU-athletics-placed-on-probabtion-cited-for-3932016.php


Penalties include:

• Former football coach Johnnie Cole and former basketball coach Tony Harvey each face a three-year show-cause order through October 2015 that restricts them from on- and off-campus recruiting and requires them to attend NCAA rules seminars and ethics training. A show-cause order, according to NCAA rule 19.02.01, requires NCAA schools to demonstrate to the infractions committee why they should not be subject to a penalty for not taking action against a staff member identified as having violated NCAA rules.

• A limit of no more than 65 overall scholarship players, with 25 initial scholarships (from 30 maximum) and 60 equivalency scholarships (from 63 maximum) in football for four academic years.

• A limit of 11 men's basketball scholarships (from 13 maximum) for three academic years.

• Due to health and safety concerns related to the reductions in scholarships and squad size, during probation, the football team may only compete against FCS member schools.

• Vacation of all team records for the 2006-07 through 2009-10 academic years in all sports, and vacation of all team records for the 2010-11 academic year in football and woman's soccer (self-imposed by the university).

• Reduction in the available number of recruiting person days by 10 for men's basketball during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years (self-imposed by the university).

• During the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years, the university may only use half the available evaluation days in both the spring and fall evaluation periods in football.

• Football official paid visits are limited to 30 total per year for football and nine total per year for men's basketball during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.

• An in-person review of the university's athletics policies and practices must be conducted annually, at the university's expense, through the term of probation. The review must generate a report of his/her findings, to be submitted with the annual compliance reports and submitted to the committee.