NCAA committee endorses new four-tier penalty system

[bonarae]

Mostly FBS-related, but can also applied to the FCS as well.

Nearly a year after promising to impose harsher sanctions on the most egregious rule-breakers, NCAA leaders endorsed a proposal Thursday that would make schools subject to the same crippling penalties just handed to Penn State.
The measure includes postseason bans of up to four years, fines that could stretch into the millions and suspensions for head coaches. A final vote on the sweeping overhaul will not occur before the board of directors' October meeting.
"Coaches come to me and say, `I feel like a chump. I'm trying to do things the right way and I have peers who laugh at me because I don't play the game and bend the rules the way they do,"' board chairman Ed Ray said in a statement released by the NCAA. "That's got to stop ... Most coaches are terrific people who love their student-athletes, try to do it the right way, try to have the right values and succeed. They're very frustrated. This has got to stop. I think most coaches are saying it's about time. We want a level playing field."
The plan calls for changing the current two-tiered penalty structure of major and secondary violations to a four-tiered concept, increasing the size of the infractions committee from 10 up to 24 in an effort to speed up the enforcement process and holding coaches individually accountable for any violations that occur in their program.

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[SuperHornet]

I'm not exactly thrilled with this. It sounds to me like the increase in committee size will have the OPPOSITE of the intended effect. More people means slower decisions.

[DSUrocks07]

NCAA power grab

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[danefan]

I'm not exactly thrilled with this. It sounds to me like the increase in committee size will have the OPPOSITE of the intended effect. More people means slower decisions.

More people doesn't necessarily mean more voices on an issue.

It could simply mean more people authorized to make decisions. That will undoubtedly speed up the process.

[SuperHornet]

That could be true. But if a small panel of the group can decide a penalty, then (unless the rules specifically prohibit it), a school could contact a DIFFERENT subgroup of the penalty committee to appeal, thereby resulting in gridlock by the "play Mom and Dad off each other" principle, just like any child on the planet does. The only way to do it right would be to make it a full-panel process for final decisions (perhaps a sub-panel could decide whether or not the issue was worth taking to the committee), and and THAT, of course, takes time....

I'm with DSU on this one....