Kentucky self-reports violation involving assistant Rod Strickland to NCAA
Aug 29, 2012, 2:01 PM EDT
Kentucky has committed a secondary infraction, one that the school self-reported to the NCAA, according to Kyle Tucker of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
As defined by the NCAA, a secondary infraction is a “violation that is isolated or inadvertent and provides or is intended to provide only a minimal recruiting, competitive or other advantage and does not include any significant recruiting inducement or extra benefit.”
According to records obtained by the Courier-Journal, the violation involves assistant Rod Strickland and a time when he reportedly watched film with a player, which he is not allowed to do under NCAA rules.
This from the Courier-Journal:
In compliance officer Sandy Bell’s report, the athlete said he came to meet with head coach John Calipari, but he was busy with a visitor, so he stopped by Strickland’s office. Strickland was breaking down film, which he is allowed to do, and the player asked him a question about something on the film. Strickland answered and offered some advice on how to better handle a certain play.
For the offense, Strickland was kept out of practice for two days and issued a letter of admonishment to reprimand him for the incident.
The violation is considered a “Level II Secondary.”
Schools often mistakenly commit infractions, thus the reason they self-report them, meaning that this isn’t much of worry or problem for the Wildcats.
To demonstrate its frequency, just last month Alabama self-reported 27 violations to the NCAA. Most of those within the basketball program pertained to impermissible text messages and phone calls.
Daniel Martin is a writer and editor at JohnnyJungle.com, covering St. John’s. You can find him on Twitter:@DanielJMartin_
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- maynardstool - Aug 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM
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This is the same Rod Strickland with two DUI in his time as an assistant? I guess he’s going to be the sacrificial lamb for Cal.
I do have to admire Cal just a little bit. All the slimy things he does, he’s gotta have the biggest balls in the world to self report these “violations”. Wow
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- buddyloveblog - Aug 29, 2012 at 11:24 PM
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Yes, of course Stool. It’s obviously a terrible thing for Calipari and his staff to follow the rules and self-report an inadvertant secondary violation. Why the rest of us failed to realize these obvious reasons for Coach Calipari sacrificing Rod Strickland to the NCAA Gods, is the better question. Thank you so much for your insightful mind and totally unbiased and humble opinion. I’m often perplexed by the idea that it is possible to misconstrue EVERY SINGLE Calipari article that is written each and every day. This particular article seemed as if would be simple to make into a sinister Calislimy smearfest at first, but after reading the facts seemed fairly benign. I was pleased to see that your festering hate was able to conjure a wonderful mixture of jealousy, conjecture and stool into the insanity we all were fortunate to witnessed above. Very impressive, and sad at the same time. My compliments also, on your uncanny ability to call them like you see them in regards to naming yourself after fecal matter.
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- genergvs - Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 PM
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Why the sacrificial lamb? Cal should have fired him after his first DUI. Not a good example 4 the UK players or anyone 4 that matter….
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- Dawood Khan - Aug 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM
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This has got to be one of the dumbest rules in the history of rules.
So Strickland was supposed to say; “I’m sorry Dude. I can’t offer my expertise because the NCAA has their heads stuck up their collective asses.”
WTF!
And stupid ass morons like stool above idiotically buy into these idiotic rules because they are conditioned by American life to be complete freakin’ tools.
Morons!
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- Dawood Khan - Aug 30, 2012 at 1:33 PM
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Stool, you are an idiot.
Look at this outside of your hate.
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- kingghidora - Aug 30, 2012 at 1:50 PM
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That sure was a good name for your post. A “maynard stool”. Yep, it fits.
