The NCAA says Southern Utah's football coach tampered with two potential transfers. Here's the penalty the NCAA handed down.
Southern Utah Thunderbirds football coach DeLane Fitzgerald gives instructions during the team's annual spring game.Head coach DeLane Fitzgerald committed two transfer portal violations and will now be suspended for a game, the NCAA announced Wednesday. That goes along with one year of probation, a $5,000 fine and several recruiting penalties over the next two years.He called one recruit for 17 minutes on the phone sometime after Jan. 1, 2023, the NCAA said.
Fitzgerald texted another player for game tape, but the recruit said he would not be entering the portal, per the NCAA. The NCAA said Fitzgerald, “violated head coach responsibility rules” and the university “failed to monitor its football program.” It also said SUU did not teach coaches the transfer portal rules well enough or have “sufficient processes in place to certify that no impermissible contact occurred before student-athletes entering the transfer portal.”Along with the fine and the suspension, SUU will not be allowed to talk to recruits for two weeks during a 2024 live recruiting window .
Tampering in the transfer portal is rumored to be common across college football. Coaches have complained about other, much larger, programs reaching out to players before they are in the portal.Innovative learning at Utah State: How the ASC is shaping future tech leadersCommentary: ‘Grandpa, tell us about Abbie Hoffman’
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