NCAA overhauling enforcement rules ...

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... new tiers of violations:

Now, the NCAA will have four categories of violations. I'll try to translate NCAA-to-English to explain.
• Level IV -- Incidental issues: A football coach butt dials a recruit, going over the one-call-a-week limit. (This entire category may get eliminated if the working group does away with some of the stupidest rules during the rulebook overhaul.)
• Level III -- Breach of conduct: A basketball coach tweets that a prospect has committed to the school and names the prospect.
• Level II -- Significant breach of conduct: Incoming football freshmen taking summer classes sleep on the couches of upperclassmen because "voluntary" summer workouts are actually required at every school.
• Level I -- Severe breach of conduct: A football player commits to a school, and a few weeks later he is somehow able to buy a barely used Dodge Challenger for pennies on the dollar after an assistant coach places a call to a booster, who places a call to a dealership in the player's hometown.

 

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Here's another article:

Some of the highlights of the new enforcement process are:
Head coaches will be held responsible for violations by anyone on their staffs, unless they can prove that they maintained an atmosphere of strict compliance. Plausible deniability is no longer the easy way out for a head coach when an assistant or staff member breaks a rule.

Instead of having two categories for violations -- major and secondary -- the NCAA will now have four. Level 1 is the most serious and is described as a "severe breach of conduct." In such cases, the NCAA could hand out multi-year postseason bans and millions of dollars in fines. In other words, what Mark Emmert did to Penn State now becomes an actual, written power the NCAA can wield again.

Quicker hearings for infractions cases. In the past, these have sometimes dragged on for a year or more. The NCAA infractions committee will increase from 10 to 24 members, and the hope is that cases where the evidence is not overly complicated can be adjudicated in half the time or less. Remember how long Ohio State's case took? Do you think the Buckeyes might have liked a judgment before the end of last season so they could have potentially gotten a bowl ban out of the way in 2011? (Of course, part of that is their own fault, as new problems kept popping up).

More consistent penalties. The rulings handed down by the infractions committee have often been impossible to predict because they change from case to case with no apparent standard in place. Ohio State and AD Gene Smith were confident that the Buckeyes would not get a bowl ban last year because there was no precedent for it. USC fans are still mad at how harsh their penalties were for the Reggie Bush case in comparison to other, seemingly more serious violations at other schools. The NCAA has long needed more consistency with its enforcement, and if this works, schools would have a better idea of what to expect when they break rules.

The 3rd point is good to hear - often times, the NCAA has waited until just before game time before reinstating a player when they've done nothing wrong. As to the fourth paragraph, I'll believe it when I see it.

 

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