Tampering violations occurred in Iowa football program

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Tampering violations occurred in the Iowa football program when current football head coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant coach Jon Budmayr had impermissible contacts with a student-athlete who was enrolled at another NCAA school at the time and who had not yet entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, according to a decision released by a Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel. Budmayr also communicated with the student-athlete's parent before the student-athlete entered the Transfer Portal. Ferentz previously agreed that he also violated head coach responsibility rules due to his awareness of and personal involvement in the violations.

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Tampering violations occurred in Iowa football program - NCAA.org

Tampering violations occurred in the Iowa football program when current football head coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant coach Jon Budmayr had impermissible contacts
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so do we think PJ is going to claim another rivalry game win now?
 

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The full list of prescribed penalties for this case include:

  • One year of probation.
  • A fine of $25,000 (self-imposed by the school).
  • A two-week ban on all football recruiting communication during the 2026 calendar year (self-imposed by the school).
  • A 24-day reduction in recruiting person days, including two weeks during which Ferentz was prohibited from off-campus recruiting activity in 2025, as well as four days during which Budmayr was prohibited from recruiting during the 2025 spring evaluation period (self-imposed by the school).
  • A vacation of all records in which the student-athlete competed while ineligible.
  • A one-game suspension for Ferentz and Budmayr during the 2024 football season (self-imposed by the school).
The bolded and italicized bullet point would remove their win in 2024 over the Gophers. We won in 2023.

They also won 13 games during that 2 year period when McNamara was ineligible (2023-2024). A couple seasons of 6-7 or worse, drops Ferret Face's record below the threshold for College HOF consideration.
 










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The full list of prescribed penalties for this case include:

  • One year of probation.
  • A fine of $25,000 (self-imposed by the school).
  • A two-week ban on all football recruiting communication during the 2026 calendar year (self-imposed by the school).
  • A 24-day reduction in recruiting person days, including two weeks during which Ferentz was prohibited from off-campus recruiting activity in 2025, as well as four days during which Budmayr was prohibited from recruiting during the 2025 spring evaluation period (self-imposed by the school).
  • A vacation of all records in which the student-athlete competed while ineligible.
  • A one-game suspension for Ferentz and Budmayr during the 2024 football season (self-imposed by the school).
The bolded and italicized bullet point would remove their win in 2024 over the Gophers. We won in 2023.

They also won 13 games during that 2 year period when McNamara was ineligible (2023-2024). A couple seasons of 6-7 or worse, drops Ferret Face's record below the threshold for College HOF consideration.
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Looks like only the 2023 games he played in were vacated. 2024 is unaffected.
 

ergopher said:
Looks like only the 2023 games he played in were vacated. 2024 is unaffected.
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That seems logical. He would have been able to exit via the Portal the next year, but he stayed.
 

Iowa to vacate four wins from 2023 in McNamara tampering case​

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Iowa will have to vacate four victories from the 2023 season for tampering with quarterback Cade McNamara before he entered the transfer portal, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
The NCAA said that Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant Jon Budmayr participated in 13 phone calls with McNamara and sent two text messages prior to him entering the portal in November 2022. McNamara left Michigan a few days later and transferred to Iowa.
Both Ferentz and Budmayr were suspended for the 2024 season opener in a school-imposed penalty for the violations.
In a joint statement, Iowa president Barb Wilson and athletic director Beth Goetz said they are disappointed in the ruling.
"We are very disappointed in today's ruling by the Committee on Infractions," the statement said. "Throughout this nearly two-and-a-half-year process, the University has fully cooperated with the NCAA enforcement staff. More importantly, when the facts revealed that violations had taken place, the institution and the head coach publicly accepted full responsibility and self-imposed several significant sanctions, something few others have done. We believe the decision of adding the penalty of the forfeiture of wins is unwarranted. The matter is now closed, and we have moved forward."
Ferentz expressed similar sentiments in an additional statement.
"I am disappointed by the NCAA's decision today," Ferentz said. "Throughout the process, our program has been open and honest about my mistake -- contacting a potential player in the hours before it was permissible by NCAA rules.
"I felt it was important to make amends for the issue, which is why I voluntarily served a one-game suspension to start the 2023 season. I believe today's decision by the NCAA vacating four wins in our 2023 season is overly harsh and inconsistent with the violation.
"As I tell our team and staff, it is how you respond and move forward that defines you. Our focus is on the 2026 season and that is how we are moving forward."
McNamara went 4-1 with the Hawkeyes in 2023 before suffering a knee injury. The NCAA ruled that McNamara was ineligible for those wins over Utah State, Iowa State, Western Michigan and Michigan State, which will now be vacated.
McNamara played for the Hawkeyes for one more year before transferring again to East Tennessee State for the 2025 season.
 






So the one year we actually beat them is when they have to vacate wins?
 




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