May 5 Update:
It's now official. CJ is heading to Kentucky. What a freakin' joke.
And based on the responses to this official announcement, everyone knows there was tampering involved.
April 20 Update:
Original Post:
I am not accusing anyone of anything. However, tampering keeps getting brought up when it comes to CJ Fredrick and Kentucky.
Well, I have done some research on tampering and what follows is what I have discovered.
Note that it is not until the athlete’s name appears in the transfer portal that other schools are allowed to contact the athlete about transferring. Coaches cannot interact with players who are enrolled at another school. They can’t contact family members or take calls from family members about athletes who want to transfer until those names are entered into the portal.
However, the rumors of CJ Fredrick to Kentucky have been around for months now (since February). Wouldn't that require a representative from the Fredrick family having a discussion or discussions w/ a representative from Kentucky?
Here are some examples of those not so secret rumors:
(1) Jack Pilgrim is a Kentucky basketball beat writer and he even admits it.
(2) Matt Jones is the creator & host of Kentucky Sports Radio. He has known for a while that there was plenty of smoke to the rumors. Drew Franklin, by the way is also part of Kentucky Sports Radio.
How did Drew know about CJ to Kentucky for weeks????
ONE PROBLEM. The NCAA prohibits coaches from purposefully contacting (or being contacted by) athletes or their families while that athlete is enrolled at another school. (Incidental contact not intended to entice a player from a program is considered a minor violation.)
When coaches tamper with an athlete at another school with the intent to lure that athlete to their own school, it is considered a Level II violation, which the NCAA describes as a “significant breach of conduct.”
The NCAA holds the head coach responsible for Level II violations in his/her program.
Level II violations, defined by the NCAA:
Violations that provide or are intended to provide more than a minimal but less than a substantial or extensive recruiting, competitive or other advantage; includes more than a minimal but less than a substantial or extensive impermissible benefit; or involves conduct that may compromise the integrity of the NCAA collegiate model as set forth in the Constitution and bylaws.
The NCAA does not specifically refer to “tampering” in its bylaws, but it prohibits coaches from engaging, essentially, in poaching practices.
Tampering is defined as significant and/or numerous impermissible contacts with a student-athlete who is enrolled at another school, with the intent of recruiting them to transfer assuming that (under current NCAA rules) the student-athlete in question has not informed their current school of their intent to transfer or has not entered the transfer portal.
In Oct. 2018, the NCAA moved to create a transfer portal so that:
* A Division I athlete simply needed to inform the coaching staff and the compliance department that he/she wanted to transfer.
* Within 2 days, that athlete’s name would appear in the transfer portal.
* Once the athlete's name appears in the transfer portal, other schools would be allowed to contact the athlete about transferring.
In enacting the simpler “transfer portal” legislation, the NCAA continued to warn against potential tampering situations, which are often suspected among coaches but seldom pursued. Coaches cannot interact with players who are enrolled at another school. They can’t contact family members or take calls from family members about athletes who want to transfer until those names are entered into the transfer portal.
An athletic program that believes one of its student-athletes had been tampered with could report the potential violation by contacting its conference, by contacting the offending school or by reporting its suspicions directly to the NCAA.
Schools are obligated to self-report violations when they discover that violations have occurred. However, there are multiple ways in which the NCAA could be informed of a potential violation occurring, including from individuals with knowledge of the situation, opposing coaches/schools, etc.
Here is a similar story, where Seton Hall tampered & lured a player away from Syracuse.
www.syracuse.com
It's now official. CJ is heading to Kentucky. What a freakin' joke.
And based on the responses to this official announcement, everyone knows there was tampering involved.
April 20 Update:
Original Post:
I am not accusing anyone of anything. However, tampering keeps getting brought up when it comes to CJ Fredrick and Kentucky.
Well, I have done some research on tampering and what follows is what I have discovered.
Note that it is not until the athlete’s name appears in the transfer portal that other schools are allowed to contact the athlete about transferring. Coaches cannot interact with players who are enrolled at another school. They can’t contact family members or take calls from family members about athletes who want to transfer until those names are entered into the portal.
However, the rumors of CJ Fredrick to Kentucky have been around for months now (since February). Wouldn't that require a representative from the Fredrick family having a discussion or discussions w/ a representative from Kentucky?
Here are some examples of those not so secret rumors:
(1) Jack Pilgrim is a Kentucky basketball beat writer and he even admits it.
(2) Matt Jones is the creator & host of Kentucky Sports Radio. He has known for a while that there was plenty of smoke to the rumors. Drew Franklin, by the way is also part of Kentucky Sports Radio.
How did Drew know about CJ to Kentucky for weeks????
ONE PROBLEM. The NCAA prohibits coaches from purposefully contacting (or being contacted by) athletes or their families while that athlete is enrolled at another school. (Incidental contact not intended to entice a player from a program is considered a minor violation.)
When coaches tamper with an athlete at another school with the intent to lure that athlete to their own school, it is considered a Level II violation, which the NCAA describes as a “significant breach of conduct.”
The NCAA holds the head coach responsible for Level II violations in his/her program.
Level II violations, defined by the NCAA:
Violations that provide or are intended to provide more than a minimal but less than a substantial or extensive recruiting, competitive or other advantage; includes more than a minimal but less than a substantial or extensive impermissible benefit; or involves conduct that may compromise the integrity of the NCAA collegiate model as set forth in the Constitution and bylaws.
The NCAA does not specifically refer to “tampering” in its bylaws, but it prohibits coaches from engaging, essentially, in poaching practices.
Tampering is defined as significant and/or numerous impermissible contacts with a student-athlete who is enrolled at another school, with the intent of recruiting them to transfer assuming that (under current NCAA rules) the student-athlete in question has not informed their current school of their intent to transfer or has not entered the transfer portal.
In Oct. 2018, the NCAA moved to create a transfer portal so that:
* A Division I athlete simply needed to inform the coaching staff and the compliance department that he/she wanted to transfer.
* Within 2 days, that athlete’s name would appear in the transfer portal.
* Once the athlete's name appears in the transfer portal, other schools would be allowed to contact the athlete about transferring.
In enacting the simpler “transfer portal” legislation, the NCAA continued to warn against potential tampering situations, which are often suspected among coaches but seldom pursued. Coaches cannot interact with players who are enrolled at another school. They can’t contact family members or take calls from family members about athletes who want to transfer until those names are entered into the transfer portal.
An athletic program that believes one of its student-athletes had been tampered with could report the potential violation by contacting its conference, by contacting the offending school or by reporting its suspicions directly to the NCAA.
Schools are obligated to self-report violations when they discover that violations have occurred. However, there are multiple ways in which the NCAA could be informed of a potential violation occurring, including from individuals with knowledge of the situation, opposing coaches/schools, etc.
Here is a similar story, where Seton Hall tampered & lured a player away from Syracuse.
Fallout from Seton Hall tampering with Taurean Thompson could continue
Thompson, who played one year at Syracuse before transferring to Seton Hall, has been at the center of an NCAA probe into tampering allegations.
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