Institution: Mississippi State University

Date: August 23, 2019

Violation Summary: Pursuant to Bylaw 19.5.12.4, this negotiated resolution has no precedential value. A former Mississippi State student and part-time athletics department tutor committed academic misconduct in an online general chemistry course to aid 10 football student-athletes and a men’s basketball student-athlete. The university and the NCAA enforcement staff agreed that the former tutor completed multiple assignments, exams and, in some instances, nearly the entire course for student-athletes.

Penalty Summary: • A fine of $5,000, plus 1% each of the football and men’s basketball budgets. • A reduction of two football scholarships during each of the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. • A reduction of one men’s basketball scholarship during the 2020-21 academic year. • A reduction of four football official visits from the program’s four-year average of 40 visits during the 2019-20 academic year. • A reduction of two men’s basketball official visits from the program’s four-year average of 10 visits during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 rolling two-year period. • A prohibition of football unofficial visits during one home contest for the 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. • A prohibition of men’s basketball unofficial visits during two home contests for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years. • A reduction of football evaluation days by two in the fall 2019 and 10 in spring 2020. • A reduction of men’s basketball recruiting-person days by six in the spring of 2020. • Three years of probation. • A vacation of records in which student-athletes competed while ineligible. The university must provide a written report containing the contests impacted to the

Involved Sports:
Football ,  Men's Basketball

Case Level: I

Involved Penalties:

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