Baylor put on Three Year Probation

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WACO, Texas (AP) The NCAA put Baylor on three years of probation Wednesday after an investigation turned up hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent to prep recruits by coaches and assistants on the basketball teams.

 

The violations were considered to be major infractions, and they were announced less than a week after the Lady Bears won the national championship with the first 40-0 season in NCAA history.

 

Still, it could have been much worse for Baylor. All of the penalties were proposed by the school and accepted by the NCAA after a review of nearly 900,000 phone and text message records found that 738 texts and 528 calls were against the rules.

 

The NCAA said men's coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season, in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women's coach Kim Mulkey also received recruiting restrictions.

 

''I believe strongly in following NCAA rules and will always try to do so in the future,'' Mulkey said in a statement released by the school. ''I do nothing without permission from our compliance office and will continue to ask questions to assure that things are done right. Any compliance-related mistakes, even those that are secondary, are disappointing. The majority of mistakes in this matter were errors in sending text messages and failure to accurately document our phone calls.''

 

The report put a bit of a damper on what has been an extraordinary run of success for Baylor athletics.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-puts-baylor-basketball-3-193519192--spt.html;_ylt=ArVWhR4f4SyRYZfnWOnHK0s5nYcB

 

I really don't think anybody should be surprised by this. Baylor went from a relatively obscure college to getting top 5 recruits like PJ3, Quincy Miller and Isiah Austin 3 years in a row. PJ3 is understandable considering he wanted to be close to his sick mom, but the other 2 definitely makes you think that there was something fishy going on down in Waco.

 

If it was only 1 or 2 players seperated by a couple of years it wouldn't have been suspicious, but with them going 3 straight seasons with a top 5 recruit, you knew something must be going on there.

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College basketball is the dirtiest college sport out there. Much more than college football IMO. Some of the things you hear when it comes to recruiting a kid or someone "delivering" a kid to a school are crazy.