St. Augustine’s College has been placed on a three-year athletic probation by the NCAA’s Division II Committee on Infractions. A number of violations, including athletic participation by ineligible athletes, receiving of impermissible benefits, and academic deficiencies, will cost the university a fine $2,500, and a reduction of scholarships in seven sports over the next two years.
The thing about violations like this is that one athlete alone can account for numerous violations. If an athlete participates in competition but is classified as ineligible, everything associated with that athlete being a member of the program becomes availabel for scrutiny. Every phone call, every meal on the road, every traveling schedule, and every competition.
Multiply that times dozens of athletes, and you’ve got yourself the dreaded “lack of institutional control,” which can decimate an athletic program for so many years that becoming financially and athletically stable can become virtually impossible.
Sadly, many black colleges do not take the appropriate steps to fend off these kind of incidents. The hiring of qualified compliance officers, and appropriate checks at the administration are absolutely necessary to prevent these kinds of scenarios.
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