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Texas Tech University will be on probation for four years as part of penalties levied by the Division I Committee on Infractions for a significant number of major violations.
Violations were found involving nine different sports and included infractions of NCAA bylaws governing eligibility, extra benefits, recruiting, unethical conduct, failure to monitor and lack of institutional control.
Among the violations found by the committee was a lack of institutional control and procedures for monitoring the athletics program that permitted at least 76 individuals to compete while ineligible from 1990 to 1997. A number of student-athletes competed in NCAA championships competition while ineligible.
In other findings, the committee discovered that:
Student-athletes were improperly enrolled for correspondence courses.
An assistant coach committed academic fraud by completing course work for a student-athlete.
Student-athletes received inflated grades for course work not completed.
Student-athletes received extra benefits in the form of money, enrollment fees in junior colleges, and free long-distance telephone access.
Free bail bonding and legal services were provided to student-athletes.
Over the course of four years, the school exceeded NCAA grant limitations in four sports.
There was a lack of institutional control and monitoring of the institution's athletics programs.
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Even cheating you were only the third best school in the state.
