NCAA LSDBi

Major Infractions Case

Texas Christian University

September 22, 2005

The violations were in the men's and women's track program and involved the provision of impermissible inducements and extra benefits to 22 prospective and enrolled student-athletes over a seven-year period. The case also involved academic fraud and unethical conduct.

The university self-imposed penalties to include a three-year postseason ban for the 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 indoor and outdoor seasons. Additional penalties that the committee imposed were: public reprimand and censure; two years of probation; vacation of all NCAA, school and conference individual records when the involved student-athletes should have been declared ineligible, further, all team results will be reconfigured to reflect the vacated records/results; show cause order for a period of eight years for the former head coach and annual compliance reporting required.


Men's Track, Indoor ,  Men's Track, Outdoor ,  Women's Track, Indoor

Television: 0 yrs
Reduction in Financial Aid: Yes
Postseason: 3 yrs
Recruiting: No
Probation: 2 yrs
Show Cause Penalty: Yes
 
Vacation of Record: No