The football juggernaut self-reported five secondary NCAA violations.
Most football programs in general violate the NCAA rules a time or two. There are so many rules and regulations that it’s insanely easy to violate at least a couple of them.
Friday, Alabama reported a total of 19 violations, with five of them coming from the national champion football team.
All of these were secondary violations, which don’t mean much in terms of massive sanctions, but if enough of them pile up the NCAA might exercise some authority. The violations included:
- A former student-athlete provided personal training to a current student athlete without charging him.
- A coach sent a text message to a prospect in a period where he’s not allowed to text prospects.
- A trophy was placed in a room where prospects could see it, which is seen as an impermissible recruiting advantage.
- A coach called a prospect more than one time during a week.
- A coach texted a prospect during a period when he’s not allowed to text said prospect.
The NCAA is notoriously fickle with the application of most of their rules, so it’s not surprising that a big program with a lot to lose like Alabama is self-reporting everything, no matter how small.
Alabama has run into some problems with recruiting violations recently, with the resignation of longtime assistant Bo Davis allegedly having to do with several recruiting violations. Whether Alabama is on the hot seat or not is unknown, but rest assured, Nick Saban will not go down to a wayward text.
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