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Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005
Gillespie OK with NCAA
FAMU basketball still has one-year playoff ban; football penalized
By Heath A. Smith
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
The NCAA's enforcement staff has decided not to pursue an allegation that Florida A&M men's basketball coach Mike Gillespie Sr. made a special arrangement with an instructor to obtain a grade change for a former student-athlete.
The incident was not among allegations listed in a letter written to FAMU interim President Castell Bryant on Thursday from David Price, NCAA vice president for enforcement service.
While Gillespie's name was cleared, the enforcement staff did decide to pursue allegations involving former FAMU head coach Billy Joe.
"The notice of allegations is the decision of the NCAA enforcement staff," said FAMU interim Athletic Director E. Newton Jackson on Monday evening. "The institution, as well as those identified (in the notice of allegations), must respond in a timely matter to the allegations. Although our self-report contained other issues, the enforcement staff deemed at this time not to cite the institution or those individuals concerning those matters."
FAMU has until Sept.5 to review the allegations and respond in writing to the NCAA. The NCAA Committee on Infractions may then hear the school's case during its Oct.14-16 meetings in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Although the enforcement staff's decision about Gillespie essentially cleared him and his staff of any wrongdoing, it won't affect the school's decision to impose penalties on the program for another violation concerning an ineligible student-athlete's participation in games during the 2003-2004 season.
Those penalties include the men's basketball team's banishment from postseason play this upcoming season and the loss of one scholarship total during the course of a three-year probation starting this academic year.
Jackson said the school was standing by its decision to impose those penalties because the ineligible student-athlete in question participated in the men's basketball team's NCAA tournament run, in which the program received monetary gains for participating in 2004.
Gillespie said he did not want to comment until Bryant returned from out of town Monday.
Among the allegations the enforcement staff decided to pursue: ...
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/sports/colleges/florida_am_university/12335872.htm
Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005
Gillespie OK with NCAA
FAMU basketball still has one-year playoff ban; football penalized
By Heath A. Smith
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
The NCAA's enforcement staff has decided not to pursue an allegation that Florida A&M men's basketball coach Mike Gillespie Sr. made a special arrangement with an instructor to obtain a grade change for a former student-athlete.
The incident was not among allegations listed in a letter written to FAMU interim President Castell Bryant on Thursday from David Price, NCAA vice president for enforcement service.
While Gillespie's name was cleared, the enforcement staff did decide to pursue allegations involving former FAMU head coach Billy Joe.
"The notice of allegations is the decision of the NCAA enforcement staff," said FAMU interim Athletic Director E. Newton Jackson on Monday evening. "The institution, as well as those identified (in the notice of allegations), must respond in a timely matter to the allegations. Although our self-report contained other issues, the enforcement staff deemed at this time not to cite the institution or those individuals concerning those matters."
FAMU has until Sept.5 to review the allegations and respond in writing to the NCAA. The NCAA Committee on Infractions may then hear the school's case during its Oct.14-16 meetings in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Although the enforcement staff's decision about Gillespie essentially cleared him and his staff of any wrongdoing, it won't affect the school's decision to impose penalties on the program for another violation concerning an ineligible student-athlete's participation in games during the 2003-2004 season.
Those penalties include the men's basketball team's banishment from postseason play this upcoming season and the loss of one scholarship total during the course of a three-year probation starting this academic year.
Jackson said the school was standing by its decision to impose those penalties because the ineligible student-athlete in question participated in the men's basketball team's NCAA tournament run, in which the program received monetary gains for participating in 2004.
Gillespie said he did not want to comment until Bryant returned from out of town Monday.
Among the allegations the enforcement staff decided to pursue: ...
