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Sparky and players on the field during the ASU football team's spring game on April 15, 2023.
Arizona State University and four former members of its football coaching staff have reached an agreement with the NCAA regarding penalties for prohibited in-person contact with recruits during the COVID-19 death period.
The remaining two are contesting parts of their respective cases through written hearings, according to an NCAA announcement Friday.
As a result of the penalty, Arizona State received four years of probation, a fine, a voluntary suspension for the 2023 postseason that had already been served, and the records of games played by ineligible student-athletes were invalidated. . The Sun Devils will also have scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions in line with the school's Level I mitigation classification.
The agreed-upon violations also include recruiting, unacceptable tryouts and tampering by staff under former head coach Herm Edwards.
The resolution includes an agreement that the violations demonstrate unethical conduct by those involved and are a violation of the head coach's responsibilities. The school also agreed that it failed to monitor the program.
“Arizona State's cooperation in the investigation and handling of this incident has been exemplary, and that cooperation began with the leadership shown by the university's chancellor,” said John F., executive director of athletic compliance at the University of Oklahoma and chair of the Committee on Violations. Inquisitor Jason Leonard said. . “The school's decision to accept responsibility and impose meaningful core penalties on its own is a model that all schools should follow and is consistent with the expectations of NCAA violation programs.”
By splitting the decision, the school and other parties can begin enforcing penalties immediately while awaiting the board's final decision on the remainder of the case.
