Breaking News: Georgia Tech Edition

I didn't even know they were being investigated.


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"The NCAA's Committee on Infractions has placed Georgia Tech on four years' probation, vacated its 2009 ACC football championship game victory and placed limits on men's basketball scholarships after citing the school with rules violations, including failure to cooperate with its investigation.
"According to the committee, the university's failure to cooperate and meet the obligations of membership compounded the seriousness of the case by adding onto what was originally an isolated instance of impermissible benefits and preferential treatment," the NCAA said in a prepared statement."

 

Quick notes from the NCAA call re: GT

By Heather Dinich

A few quick hits from this afternoon’s NCAA teleconference with Dennis Thomas, the NCAA’s chair of the Committee on Infractions:

• Had Georgia Tech cooperated, Thomas said it’s possible the university would have been faced with secondary violations instead of major violations, but declined to elaborate on how much less severe the penalties would have been.
• Georgia Tech’s lack of cooperation and the fact that it is a repeat offender (two major violations in five years) is what doomed it in this investigation. “It is absolutely critical for the involved institution to assist at every turn the enforcement staff to retrieve accurate information,” Thomas said.
• Thomas insisted the NCAA was not making an example out of Georgia Tech because of the other violations that have gone on across college football this year. “The committee is not in the business of setting examples. The committee is in the business of reviewing the information that is presented at the hearings and rendering a decision based upon the information that is presented. I want to be very lucid about what you indicated about an example. That does not factor into the process. The process is simply making decisions based on the information that is presented in a fair and objective manner.”
• Thomas said it was a "total institution process," that's why individuals weren't punished -- they didn't feel anyone needed to be "singled out."

 

I heard something was churning down there, but I didn't really pay any attention to it. How long has the investigation been going on?

 

Well, that came out of nowhere. Guess the NCAA is knocking on all doors these days.

 

Looks like the NCAA is telling all the other schools under investigation that you better cooperate, or else .