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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Leaders And Best

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:31 PM ^

I think people will remember the individual season the same, but this has a bigger effect on the all-time records. No one is going to recalculate the all-time wins and winning percentage for vacated games. People look up that number in the NCAA record book and just take that number. The footnote for vacated wins does not get looked at much in this instance. So it is significant on that front because of where Notre Dame is for all-time winning percentage.

There is a reason people at PSU fought so hard for JoePa's wins to be restored, and it wasn't just for JoePa.

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RGard

November 22nd, 2016 at 2:24 PM ^

if the NCAA can rescind vacating Penn State's wins when they harbored a child rapist, how can you ever vacate anybody else's wins?

We should rescind our self-sanctions from the late 90s.

So, in other words.  Fuck penn state and fuck the NCAA.

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julesh

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:13 PM ^

So if they vacate wins, does that basically guarantee they won't be able to catch Michigan in winning percentage any time soon? Or do they still count for that stat?

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Leaders And Best

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:16 PM ^

If the penalty holds up, the victories are not recognized by the NCAA, but the losses are. That would wipe around 21 wins from their record while keeping the 5 losses from the 2 seasons.

But have I have this sneaking suspicion that Notre Dame will win out in the end. The NCAA always caves. Look at Syracuse, Louisville, and UConn basketball.

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M2NASA

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^

SU never got the wins reinstated.  And if you really look into what happened beyond the rhetoric, their investigation/penalty was more about going after Boeheim.

A tutor added in a citation that a player forgot and players were paid for work they didn't do at the YMCA by someone not affiliated from the program.  The horror.

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Leaders And Best

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^

I think you need to review what happened again. You left out the part where Syracuse did not follow their drug policy for about a decade. Or the part how basketball staff had players' email passwords and posed as an athlete to deal with professors. It took a whistleblower for any of this to come out, but I'm sure that only happened once. And how the NCAA negotiated a statute of limitations for the eligibilty violations that conveniently started right after the NCAA championship game. And that was only the tip of the iceberg as Syracuse and Boeheim were not upfront in the investigation at all.

Go after Boeheim? It was the other way around. The NCAA went out of its way to keep his reputation intact.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2015/3/9/8166543/syracuse-ncaa-scandal-explained-jim-boeheim

 

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McCleary

November 22nd, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^

A tweet from a man named Jim Weber @JimMWeber, tweeted this: SAUCES: A little birdy tells me Wilton Speight plans to throw on Wednesday & play on Saturday barring a setback.."

I do not know if this man has any actual sources but he does have 96K twitter followers, fwiw.

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