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Alabama unveils secondary violations: Football staffer's salary frozen because of violations committed 'while at another institution'
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- A member of Nick Saban's Alabama football staff who was accused at his previous job of providing impermissible benefits and introducing a prospect to a booster had his salary frozen and his contract not extended for one year, according to an annual report of secondary violations posted on Alabama's compliance website.
The staff member is not identified in the report and Alabama officials declined to clarify who the person was and whether or not he continues to work for the Crimson Tide. The nature of the violations, though, match those that were levied against Director of Football Operations Joe Pannunzio in the Aug. 2011 bombshell Yahoo! report that accused the Miami football and basketball programs of numerous major NCAA violations.
According to the Yahoo! report, Pannunzio, who was a tight ends/special teams coordinator at Miami from 2006-10, facilitated and was present for a meeting between top offensive line recruit Matt Patchen and rogue booster Nevin Shapiro at Shapiro's Miami Beach mansion. Yahoo! also obtained phone records that showed Shapiro and Pannunzio communicated 422 times via text message or call from 2006 to 2010.
Also present for the Patchen-Shapiro meeting was Jeff Stoutland, an offensive line coach at Miami from 2007-10 who spent the past two years at Alabama. Stoutland left the Crimson Tide in February for a position on Chip Kelly's staff with the Philadelphia Eagles.
According to Alabama's report of violations, the unnamed staff member "provided impermissible benefits to a prospect and his family and introduced prospect to a booster while at another institution."
The penalties levied against the staff member, which also included a trip to a NCAA regional rules seminar and 90 days without any permissible recruiting communications, were self-imposed by Alabama. Pannunzio, who makes a $170,000 salary but has not received a raise during the past two years, was not named in the NCAA's Notice of Allegations to Miami in February.
The staff member's salary was frozen for the 2012-13 academic year. Eight prominent members of Saban's football staff received raises and contract extensions in April.
Alabama's report, which it releases on a yearly basis, includes 31 secondary violations from 12 sports that occurred from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. The Crimson Tide reported 27 secondary violations over a similar time period last year.
As defined by the NCAA, secondary violations are "isolated or inadvertent in nature; provide or are intended to provide only minimal recruiting, competitive or other advantage; and do not include any significant impermissible benefit." The majority of Alabama's violations were inadvertent and did not warrant much more than rules education and letters of admonishment.
The Crimson Tide football program reported six other secondary violations. They were:
-- A recruit who was in his first year at a two-year college took an unofficial visit to Alabama and made contact with the coaching staff. In response to the violation, Alabama ceased recruiting the player and banned the assistant coach responsible for the visit from recruiting for one week.
-- The football staff exceeded its allotted number of off-campus contacts with a recruit. The involved coaches were not permitted to recruit off campus for the first week of the spring evaluation period.
-- A student-athlete's name was involved in promoting his own "newly started business." Alabama declared the athlete ineligible, reinstated him and provided rules education to the athlete and the entire team.
-- An assistant coach exceeded the permissible number of phone calls within a week to a recruit. The coach was not allowed to make recruiting calls for two weeks and received rules education and a letter of admonishment.
-- A recruit received a recruiting letter from Alabama before the time in which this sort of correspondence is permitted. As a penalty on itself, Alabama did not send the involved recruit any recruiting materials for 60 days.
-- Some current student-athletes received impermissible meals. The involved parties were declared ineligible, reinstated and donated the meal's value to charity.
Alabama's swimming and diving program accounted for eight secondary violations. The rowing and track and field teams each had three; gymnastics, women's basketball and men's basketball accounted for two apiece and cross country, men's golf, volleyball and softball each had one.
The majority of violations committed by these sports involved impermissible contact with recruits via phone calls and text messages. In one of the more extreme examples, a gymnastics coach accidentally sent a "pocket text" to a recruit while the recruit was on campus for an official visit.
Alabama unveils secondary violations: Football staffer's salary frozen because of violations committed 'while at another institution'
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- A member of Nick Saban's Alabama football staff who was accused at his previous job of providing impermissible benefits and introducing a prospect to a booster had his salary frozen and his contract not extended for one year, according to an annual report of secondary violations posted on Alabama's compliance website.
The staff member is not identified in the report and Alabama officials declined to clarify who the person was and whether or not he continues to work for the Crimson Tide. The nature of the violations, though, match those that were levied against Director of Football Operations Joe Pannunzio in the Aug. 2011 bombshell Yahoo! report that accused the Miami football and basketball programs of numerous major NCAA violations.
According to the Yahoo! report, Pannunzio, who was a tight ends/special teams coordinator at Miami from 2006-10, facilitated and was present for a meeting between top offensive line recruit Matt Patchen and rogue booster Nevin Shapiro at Shapiro's Miami Beach mansion. Yahoo! also obtained phone records that showed Shapiro and Pannunzio communicated 422 times via text message or call from 2006 to 2010.
Also present for the Patchen-Shapiro meeting was Jeff Stoutland, an offensive line coach at Miami from 2007-10 who spent the past two years at Alabama. Stoutland left the Crimson Tide in February for a position on Chip Kelly's staff with the Philadelphia Eagles.
According to Alabama's report of violations, the unnamed staff member "provided impermissible benefits to a prospect and his family and introduced prospect to a booster while at another institution."
The penalties levied against the staff member, which also included a trip to a NCAA regional rules seminar and 90 days without any permissible recruiting communications, were self-imposed by Alabama. Pannunzio, who makes a $170,000 salary but has not received a raise during the past two years, was not named in the NCAA's Notice of Allegations to Miami in February.
The staff member's salary was frozen for the 2012-13 academic year. Eight prominent members of Saban's football staff received raises and contract extensions in April.
Alabama's report, which it releases on a yearly basis, includes 31 secondary violations from 12 sports that occurred from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. The Crimson Tide reported 27 secondary violations over a similar time period last year.
As defined by the NCAA, secondary violations are "isolated or inadvertent in nature; provide or are intended to provide only minimal recruiting, competitive or other advantage; and do not include any significant impermissible benefit." The majority of Alabama's violations were inadvertent and did not warrant much more than rules education and letters of admonishment.
The Crimson Tide football program reported six other secondary violations. They were:
-- A recruit who was in his first year at a two-year college took an unofficial visit to Alabama and made contact with the coaching staff. In response to the violation, Alabama ceased recruiting the player and banned the assistant coach responsible for the visit from recruiting for one week.
-- The football staff exceeded its allotted number of off-campus contacts with a recruit. The involved coaches were not permitted to recruit off campus for the first week of the spring evaluation period.
-- A student-athlete's name was involved in promoting his own "newly started business." Alabama declared the athlete ineligible, reinstated him and provided rules education to the athlete and the entire team.
-- An assistant coach exceeded the permissible number of phone calls within a week to a recruit. The coach was not allowed to make recruiting calls for two weeks and received rules education and a letter of admonishment.
-- A recruit received a recruiting letter from Alabama before the time in which this sort of correspondence is permitted. As a penalty on itself, Alabama did not send the involved recruit any recruiting materials for 60 days.
-- Some current student-athletes received impermissible meals. The involved parties were declared ineligible, reinstated and donated the meal's value to charity.
Alabama's swimming and diving program accounted for eight secondary violations. The rowing and track and field teams each had three; gymnastics, women's basketball and men's basketball accounted for two apiece and cross country, men's golf, volleyball and softball each had one.
The majority of violations committed by these sports involved impermissible contact with recruits via phone calls and text messages. In one of the more extreme examples, a gymnastics coach accidentally sent a "pocket text" to a recruit while the recruit was on campus for an official visit.
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