Clemson Drug Testing Results and Secondary Violations Report

by Press Release - Fri Jul 07 15:48:19 GMT-04:00 2006

CLEMSON, SC -- As is its policy to do twice a year Clemson announced its NCAA secondary rules violations on Friday. The names of the sports, coaches and students involved have been redacted by the university.

Violations can be classified as either secondary or major. Secondary violations are those that provide only a limited recruiting or competitive advantage.

Violations for period January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006.

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Date Reported

Facts

Result

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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>January 2006

NCAA Bylaw 13.02.4.4 Dead Period.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Prospect and their

family made an unannounced visit to the office during the dead period.

During that time the administrative graduate assistant held a conversation

with the prospective student-athlete that extended beyond a greeting. Head

coach notified compliance services of the violation.

Issued a letter of reprimand to administrative

graduate assistant and reviewed legislation. Staff must count the contact as

one of their permissible in-person contacts and reduce in-person contacts by

one. Prospective student-athlete has been declared ineligible and sport has

ceased recruiting.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>March 2006

NCAA Bylaw 16.8.1.2 Competition While

Representing Institution. Ineligible student-athlete traveled with team to

a closed scrimmage and received travel expenses. Discovered and reported to

compliance services by sport supervisor during a routine review of travel

expenses.

Staff was fined twice the amount of the

impermissible meal expense. Reviewed legislation with staff and required

entire staff to attend the 2006 NCAA Compliance Regional Rules Seminar.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>March 2006

NCAA Bylaw 16.02.3 Extra Benefit.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> Student-athlete’s child

received an impermissible benefit by traveling with the team to a closed

scrimmage. Violation reported to compliance services by sport supervisor.

Student-athlete was declared ineligible until

cost of extra benefit was repaid. Reviewed legislation with staff and

required entire staff to attend the 2006 NCAA Compliance Regional Rules

Seminar.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>March 2006

NCAA Bylaw 16.02.3 Extra Benefit.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Student-athlete’s child

received an impermissible benefit by traveling back from an away competition

with the team. An athletic administrator that traveled with the team

reported violation to compliance services.

Student-athlete declared ineligible until the

cost of the impermissible benefit was repaid. Head coach received a letter

of admonishment. Reviewed legislation with staff and required entire staff

to attend the 2006 NCAA Compliance Regional Rules Seminar

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>March 2006

NCAA Bylaw 14.11.1 Obligation of Member

Institution to Withhold Student-Athlete from Competition and Bylaw 14.101

Institutional Responsibility for Eligibility Certification

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>. Assistant coach allowed

two ineligible student-athletes competed prior to being certified for

competition. Head coach discovered violation after reviewing squad list and

notified the sport supervisor. Sport supervisor notified compliance

services.

Student-athletes declared ineligible and withheld

from two competitions. Eligibility later restored by NCAA. Head coach

received letter of reprimand and required to attend 2006 NCAA Compliance

Regional Rules Seminar. Compliance services reviewed legislation with coach.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>April 2006

NCAA Bylaw 14.11.1 Obligation of Member

Institution to Withhold Student-Athlete from Competition and Bylaw 14.101

Institutional Responsibility for Eligibility Certification.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Five ineligible

student-athletes competed prior to being certified for competition. Head

coach notified compliance services of violation.

Student-athletes declared ineligible and will be

withheld from to competitions during the 2006-07 academic year. Eligibility

later restored by NCAA. Head coach received letter of reprimand and required

to attend the 2006 NCAA Compliance Regional Rules Seminar. Compliance

services reviewed legislation with coach.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>June 2006

NCAA Bylaw 30.3 Certification of Compliance.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Institution failed to

complete the certification of compliance prior to the September 15^th

NCAA deadline. Reported by Compliance services.

Reviewed legislation with staff member. No

further action.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>June 2006

NCAA Bylaw 13.1.3.1 Time Period for Telephone

Calls – General. Assistant

coach telephone a prospective student-athlete because the coach was under the

impression the prospect was a high school senior. Coach immediately ended

the call when the coach realized the prospect was a junior. Assistant coach

reported the violation to compliance services.

Assistant coach received a letter of

admonishment. Compliance services reviewed legislation with coach. Prospect

was declared ineligible and later reinstated by NCAA.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>June 2006

NCAA Bylaw 13.6.2.1 One Visit Limitation.

style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Prospective student-athlete

made two official visits to the institution. During compliance services

annual reconciliation of official visits the violation was discovered by the

sport and reported to compliance services.

Prospective student-athlete declared ineligible

until cost of second official visit is repaid. Eligibility reinstatement

pending. Compliance reviewed legislation with staff and required involved

parties to attend the 2006 NCAA Compliance Regional Rules Seminar. All

parties involved received letters of admonishment. Sport required to reduce

the number of official visit by two from the four-year average for 2006-07.

Clemson Drug Testing Results for 2005-06 Fiscal year

Clemson, SC—Once a year the Clemson Athletic Department releases data concerning the drug testing results of its student-athletes over the course of the year.

From July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006, 458 drug tests were conducted on Clemson student-athletes. Of the samples collected, seven (1.53 percent) returned positive results for marijuana. There were no positive results for other banned substances (cocaine, alcohol or steroids).