A violation that the Iowa Hawkeyes will have to report may not have had to happen if a proposal was able to pass to get rid of certain restrictions on recruiting mail. Instead, it may have gotten hit thanks to their own conference.
An audit showed 15 minor NCAA infractions by Iowa that had to be reported. The whole list can be seen here by the Gazette, and it has its usual tidbits like the misuse of phone calls and the school paying for an assistant coach’s girlfriend’s dinner.
But the best violation shows up at the bottom that was tagged by multiple sports.
"The compliance audit from 2010 through December 2012 found the university’s use of a URL address constituted a logo and was not part of a return address in its recruiting envelopes for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball. The women’s field hockey and men’s/women’s swimming teams also used larger-than-allowed postcards for recruiting purposes. The former letters and postcards are either in storage for other purposes or destroyed."
Basically, the misuse of a URL address as a logo and sending out wrong-sized postcards are NCAA violations. Even better in the story is that the Big Ten wanted to keep these restrictions in the NCAA guidelines, per AthNet:
"None of these would be a violation anymore if Proposal RWG 13-5-1 had passed. That would have deregulated things like the content of envelopes and the size of postcards. Instead, the Big Ten lead the fight to keep things like these violations in the NCAA Manual, at least for now."
It may take a while to get to the bottom of what happened during the Auburn Tigers’ championship season, but the NCAA will be damned if they let lower-level sports get away with a larger postcard.
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