Notre Dame trainer committed academic misconduct for football players

Submitted by Leaders And Best on

But somehow "Stretchgate" was worse than this. Kind of unbelievable how Notre Dame kept this quiet. This is from their 2012 BCS runner-up team. Notre Dame may have to vacate games from their 2012 and 2013 teams. Notre Dame is contesting that part of the penalty.

"A former University of Notre Dame student athletic trainer violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when she committed academic misconduct for two football student-athletes and provided six other football student-athletes with impermissible academic extra benefits, according to a Division I Committee on Infractions panel. One additional football student-athlete committed academic misconduct on his own.

The panel prescribed one year of probation, a two-year show-cause order and disassociation for the former student trainer, and a $5,000 fine for the university. During that time, if a member school hires the former student trainer in an athletically related position, she and the school must appear before a Committee on Infractions panel."

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/former-notre-dame-student-trainer-acted-unethically-committed-academic-misconduct

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ken725

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:17 PM ^

This is one of the penalties prescribed by the panel.

 

Public reprimand and censure for the university.
WTF is this? I'm sure nobody at ND gives a damn and a public reprimand or censure.

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kevin holt

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:17 PM ^

A show cause for the trainer?? as if the trainer did it on his fucking own. Wasn't our stretching traceable just to scapegoat trainers too if that's true? Also $5,000, wow that's a hefty fine there to make a school pay for the actions of one rogue trainer!

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Magnus

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^

If only George O'Leary had kept the job way back when, I'm sure he would have held Notre Dame to a higher standard of ethics and academic standards...

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Don

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:52 PM ^

It's not a research university colossus like UM, but it's still a well-regarded academic institution, and plenty of people there take the academic side of things very seriously.

While they can hypocritically turn a blind eye to academic shortcomings in the athletic department when the Irish are winning—Lou Holtz's era wasn't entirely pristine—if you're a losing coach on top of being in charge of a program that's perceived as flouting standards of academic integrity, the knives will come out in South Bend.

And Kelly is somebody who doesn't inspire loving worship in the fanbase, either.

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Leaders And Best

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:01 PM ^

It sounds like Notre Dame was pretty forthcoming with the NCAA. ND just did a really good job of keeping the investigation out of the public eye. ND academic suspensions in 2014 make a lot more sense now.

The whole NCAA enforcement model is a joke. Schools like Michigan and Notre Dame that are open and forthcoming in investigations get hammered while schools that obstruct as much as possible like UNC, Louisville, and OSU walk away relatively scot-free.

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MGoCombs

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:17 PM ^

I may be in the minority here, and admittedly only read a couple of stories about this, but I think the penalty of vacating wins is a little excessive for something that doesn't really seem like a massive scandal. It was even self-reported. It's not that vacating wins matters, but all they've done here is basically encourage schools to sweep this kind of thing under the rug.

I kind of feel like if this were happening to Boston College instead of Notre Dame, we'd be making jokes about how the NCAA lays the hammer for this, but let's UNC basically walk, Joe Pa get his wins back, etc.

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MGoCombs

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:37 PM ^

I get that, but I don't think that has been consistently applied. I don't really care what happens to them, just it seems like this "feels" relatively minor on the scandal scale for vacating wins. I admittedly don't have much evidence to support that, mostly because I am lazy right now.

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