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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Iowa State said Tuesday that football coaches and staff made dozens of improper recruiting calls between 2008 and 2011 and it has asked the NCAA to levy a punishment of two years of probation.
The university said it reported the "inadvertent" violations to the NCAA in November 2011. It said an "exhaustive" review of three years of telephone and text messages discovered that non-coaching staff members made 55 impermissible phone calls while coaches made 24 improper calls.
The review also found that coaches also failed to document 1,405 calls in which they tried but failed to connect with recruits for reasons such as dropped calls, lack of answers or voice mails. Those attempted contacts were supposed to be logged under NCAA rules, which regulate the number and timing of coaches' contacts with recruits.
The university said it had entered into a summary disposition process with the NCAA, which allows universities to submit their own investigative findings and propose penalties. The NCAA's committee on infractions will then determine whether to accept the findings and penalties or to move forward with its own hearing to seek a different punishment.
An NCAA spokeswoman said the agency does not comment on pending cases. If the two-year probation is accepted, the university could be subject to more severe penalties if there were additional NCAA violations during that time frame.
The university said it reported the "inadvertent" violations to the NCAA in November 2011. It said an "exhaustive" review of three years of telephone and text messages discovered that non-coaching staff members made 55 impermissible phone calls while coaches made 24 improper calls.
The review also found that coaches also failed to document 1,405 calls in which they tried but failed to connect with recruits for reasons such as dropped calls, lack of answers or voice mails. Those attempted contacts were supposed to be logged under NCAA rules, which regulate the number and timing of coaches' contacts with recruits.
The university said it had entered into a summary disposition process with the NCAA, which allows universities to submit their own investigative findings and propose penalties. The NCAA's committee on infractions will then determine whether to accept the findings and penalties or to move forward with its own hearing to seek a different punishment.
An NCAA spokeswoman said the agency does not comment on pending cases. If the two-year probation is accepted, the university could be subject to more severe penalties if there were additional NCAA violations during that time frame.
