Nevada On NCAA Probation For Major Violations
The NCAA placed the Nevada on probation for three years due to major NCAA rules violations centered on ex-men's golf coach Rich Merritt.
We highlighted a few comments in the NCAA Report:
"Thus the story the golf coach and the student-athlete concocted regarding how the student-athlete was able to fly roundtrip between his home and the tournament site was a fabrication."
"These "dares" were challenges by the golf coach for a student-athlete to engage in two crass acts;"
"In an interview with the university's compliance director, the golf coach emphatically denied providing the airline ticket. The information developed during the investigation disproved the golf coach's assertions..."
"Several individuals expressed their belief that the golf coach wagered on sporting events. The enforcement staff requested access to the coach's financial records. Although he provided access to his joint checking account, which showed a significant number of transactions at casinos in Reno and Las Vegas, he refused the enforcement staff's request for access to his credit accounts.
"The violations reflected the golf coach's failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance through both his disregard for NCAA extra-benefit legislation and failure to provide truthful and complete information about violations of NCAA legislation when they were discovered."
"In fact, it was only when the golf coach was presented with objective proof of violations of NCAA legislation in the form of documentation, admissions by student-athletes or admissions by his father that the golf coach conceded that violations of NCAA legislation occurred and admitted culpability."
We highlighted a few comments in the NCAA Report:
"Thus the story the golf coach and the student-athlete concocted regarding how the student-athlete was able to fly roundtrip between his home and the tournament site was a fabrication."
"These "dares" were challenges by the golf coach for a student-athlete to engage in two crass acts;"
"In an interview with the university's compliance director, the golf coach emphatically denied providing the airline ticket. The information developed during the investigation disproved the golf coach's assertions..."
"Several individuals expressed their belief that the golf coach wagered on sporting events. The enforcement staff requested access to the coach's financial records. Although he provided access to his joint checking account, which showed a significant number of transactions at casinos in Reno and Las Vegas, he refused the enforcement staff's request for access to his credit accounts.
"The violations reflected the golf coach's failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance through both his disregard for NCAA extra-benefit legislation and failure to provide truthful and complete information about violations of NCAA legislation when they were discovered."
"In fact, it was only when the golf coach was presented with objective proof of violations of NCAA legislation in the form of documentation, admissions by student-athletes or admissions by his father that the golf coach conceded that violations of NCAA legislation occurred and admitted culpability."
Posted by Site Administrator at 3/18/2010 1:07 PM 
Categories: Terri Patraw
Tags: Cary Groth Terri Patraw Rich Merritt Milton Glick University of Nevada Reno
Categories: Terri Patraw
Tags: Cary Groth Terri Patraw Rich Merritt Milton Glick University of Nevada Reno
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