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More than 1,000 impermissible phone calls and other inappropriate contact by officials across Iowa State University’s 18-team athletics program, used to reach nearly 400 recruits, led the National Collegiate Athletic Association to cite the institution for its "failure to monitor" the athletics program Friday. Penalties include limited telephone contact with prospects and a reduction in the number of recruiting opportunities for several sports. Coaches and staff members failed to audit or adequately keep track of the number of phone calls made and text messages sent to prospects, the NCAA public infractions report says, with many coaches claiming that the university’s compliance office never told them to log calls. While 1,400 impermissible calls were placed across all programs, one former student men’s basketball coach sent 160 impermissible text messages to prospects.
Besides several recruiting restrictions, the sanctions include public reprimand and censure and two years’ probation. However, because the penalties were mostly self-imposed by the university several years ago, long before the case’s summary disposition (which does not include a formal hearing) wrapped up Friday, many of the recruiting restrictions have already expired.
