COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s athletic department is reporting 11 secondary NCAA violations in the past six months, including two from the program of new women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley.
The school said Tuesday that a women’s basketball coach improperly text-messaged a prospect and a coach incorrectly publicized an informal practice scrimmage.
The name of the coach wasn’t included in the report. All violations are considered low-level infractions of NCAA rules.
Staley was hired as the school’s new women’s basketball coach in May.
The school releases such violations twice a year because of regular open-records requests by The Associated Press and other news organizations.
The department said it also conducted 661 drug tests. Five came back positive for marijuana and one for alcohol.
In the past, South Carolina has recorded violations such as football coach Steve Spurrier’s wife, Jerri, sending hand-written notes to families of players who signed with the Gamecocks.
All requests to restore athletes’ eligibility connected with the latest batch of violations were granted, the school said.
For women’s basketball, the text-message violation took place Oct. 1 and was classified as Level I, meaning it is submitted to the NCAA enforcement staff through the SEC office.
The violation for publicizing the scrimmage occurred in November and was considered Level II, which means the SEC office collects such infractions and submits a report to the NCAA at the end of the academic year.
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Comments » 26
bugman (Inactive) writes:
who's the cheater now spurrier??
cobbwebb writes:
i bet the ol ball coach had the answers to the recruiting test written on the palm of his hand!
mattlock writes:
Now we know why he didn't give us his score. . .he missed the wife's hand written notes question. . .oops
BIGEJ writes:
I see that USC is at least reporting their violations; UA, UF, UGA will have to get caught and serve time.....
proudveteran writes:
Maybe the "ole coach" needs to bush up on the NCAA rule and regulations since he was so critical of Lane Kiffin recently.
govols87 writes:
only one of these was from the football program
Southpaw_Vol writes:
One vilation is all it takes. "Only one" was from the football program. Isn't that like being a little pregnant? Spurrier was waiving one hand to draw attention to Kiffin while his other hand was doing dirty work.
CoverOrange writes:
Darn! If only she could have typed them Stevie could gotten away with murder! Murder I tell you!!
NoogaVol55 writes:
Really fellas...sounds like this has nothing to do with their football....interesting I guess, but who really cares about SC womens B-ball rules violations. I would rather have a staring contest with J. Adams.
ULTIMATEVOLUNTEER writes:
Schwinggg!!!
bobbarbilly writes:
I guess then that the blazing light that I saw flying across the sky earlier tonight from the southeast was the ol' ball coach's flung visor and not santa trying out new running lights.
BillsBrother writes:
Do we have a beach volleyball team, yet?
BillsBrother writes:
Lord forgive me for saying that, and I pray for the Pygmies in New Guinea.
BillVol writes:
Karma is finally coming around and kicking Spurrier right in the groin -- multiple times. Have been waiting for this to happen since the mid-'90s.
JBruce writes:
Who really cares?? Every program that wants to compete has to break rules.
There isn't a clean program in the SEC.
BigOrangeVol writes:
Looks like it may have been our girls Carla or Princess that did the texting. I hate to hear that!
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Doldrum articles cropping up early. Even if it is Superior.
Lets see some bowl games.
And be in one next season.
tennisvol writes:
Spurrier was worried about Kiffin violating policy?
nicksjuzunk#646117 writes:
Alabama has reported minor violations of
1. Claiming two national championships in football this year.
2. Paying each high school recruit $47,000 and a pack of fun size Snickers.
3. Too many trailers in the Dean's yard.
4. At least one assistant coach got drunk in public and called his wife "a fat pig". Actually his wife was not around, it was indeed a pig.
TennesseeTuxedo writes:
Well well Steve,.....what was your score on your test?
I would venture to say, with extreme confidence, that you did not get 40 out of 40.
RoyaltyVol#280778 writes:
You can't spell infractions without the letters SC
smoky50 writes:
Hey does anyone have any water to give the Ole' Ball Coach, so he can swallow his big fat foot he put in his mouth. What do you think about that visor boy!
kdaff51 writes:
If his wife is sending out the cards maybe she took the test for him to!
Madkels writes:
Maybe we should settle this debate about the two wifes this way:
1) Wet T-shirt contest (10 points)
2) Bikini contest (10 points)
3) NCAA recruiting test score (10 points)
May the best wife win!
JBruce writes:
If these "violations" were the worst of what goes on at SC, then Steve Spurrier and company are choir boys.
I can list at least 5 players on his roster that are breaking far more serious violations.
Then again, I could write a 5 page paper on all of the violations that have occurred at Tennessee and a complete novel about Alabama.
The NCAA acts like it isn't going on because they don't want to deal with it. EVERY team does it!! They couldn't compete if they didn't.
Flashman writes:
Ain't it refreshing that our coach is the one poking jabs at Spurrier now a days?
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