Notre Dame trainer committed academic misconduct for football players

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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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superstringer

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^

This is a MAJOR HIT on ND's win percentage.  They don't merely fall farther back of us...they fall WAY out of the top running.

If I have the math correct:

We currently are at 73.145% (938-333-36).

ND falls to 70.588% (855-344-42).

And now in second place?  No, not Ohio State.  It's...wait for it.. Boise State, at 72.666% (427-160-2 -- yes, less than half of our total number of games).

I think Notre Dame falls to about eighth in all-time win percentage. I used the end-of-2015 data in Wikipedia, added in this year's wins, and deducted the 21 wins ND had in 2012-2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_win-loss_rec…

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restive neb

November 22nd, 2016 at 6:52 PM ^

I have ND at 0.724 currently if wins and total games are reduced by 21, and .712 if only wins are reduced by 21.  If the 0.724 is correct, that keeps them in #2.  However, in total wins, they would drop from #2 to #6.  

With respect to Boise State, they would be #1 all time at 0.772, but they've only been Div. 1A since 1996, so most people don't include them in the all-time ranks.

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restive neb

November 22nd, 2016 at 6:42 PM ^

Does vacating the wins remove them from the total games played as well?  In other words, in 2012, does ND's record go from 12-1 to 0-1 or 0-13?  It makes a big difference in overall win percentage.  Your calculation assumes 0-13, since you removed the wins, but didn't lower the number of total games.  I'm not sure which way is right.

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Don

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:49 PM ^

for a far, far more egregious pattern of serious academic misconduct than what ND is guilty of just shows what a useless and corrupt organization the NCAA is.

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CLord

November 22nd, 2016 at 1:52 PM ^

If the sackless NCAA reinstated the wins for Ped State after the mind blowing horror that happened there under the knowing nose of JoPa, you can bet the NCAA will reinstate the ND wins.  It's almost as though the NCAA just patronizes America now.  "Let's issue tough penalties while attention and anger is out there, then when the 15 minutes on it are up and it dies down, we'll retract the penalties and no one will care."  Pathetic.

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jmblue

November 22nd, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^

I've always been a bit suspicious of schools like ND and PSU that trumpet really high graduation rates for athletes.  They bring in athletes with significantly worse GPAs and test scores than the student body as a whole, ask them to spend 30-some hours (all told) per week focusing on their sport, and yet these guys miraculously graduate at 80-90% rates?  It's hard to believe.

 

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Mr Miggle

November 22nd, 2016 at 3:57 PM ^

Remember they suspended all those players for academic fraud in 2014? That was from this case. The year before they suspended their starting QB for the season for cheating on a test. Notre Dame is one school that has a track record of holding their athletes accountable to a high standard in academics.

This was all self-reported. The NCAA woul not have mandated such strong punishments for players and I think we all know that very few schools would follow ND's example. I dislike ND for many things, but this is the one area for which I have to give them a lot of credit.

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Rufus X

November 22nd, 2016 at 3:09 PM ^

No way this should hold up. I am all about hating ND and their sanctimonious holier-than-thou BS.  But this punishment does not fit the crime. From what I can tell it is one stupid jock-sniffing student trainer that probably cheated with these guys in exchange for invites to parties at their house.  Far FAR worse things have been done by other programs with direct institutional involvement at worst, or intentional indifference at best.

UNC?  UK basketball? Cam Newton? JoePa? OSU football in multiple instances, to say nothing of all the SEC bagman crap that has gone on forever? These all had institutional elements of actual fraud by peopel supposedly in charge of these things. Killing Two years worth of wins for one rogue trainer without involvment of the team or academic personnel is overkill, IMO.  Probaltion and possibly a postseason ban would be appropriate.

NCAA has become a charicature of its hapless self.

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Mr Miggle

November 22nd, 2016 at 4:07 PM ^

This did involve a number of the players, not just a trainer.

Also, vacating wins is standard for using ineligible players. No one would even think twice about it here if this were ND basketball. Probation and postseason bans that you suggest instead are considered stronger penalties.

 

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Hurricane

November 22nd, 2016 at 6:39 PM ^

Did you hear that NOTRE DAME will FIRE BRIAN KELLY and HIRE URBAN MEYER? Credible sources are saying that NOTRE DAME WILL FIRE BRIAN KELLY AND HIRE URBAN MEYER.  

 

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