Oklahoma State Reports Multiple Secondary NCAA Violations

Oklahoma State self-reported multiple secondary NCAA violations over the course of the last year, of which include a player receiving $65 to put a female student and a friend on a pass list, a football staffer posting a tweet that included a prospective student-athletes hometown, and other violations, according to reporting from The Oklahoman‘s Nathan Ruiz.

The revelations are part of what was a routine check on such reported incidents. Below are some of the other violations reported by OSU, which are minor in nature.

• Before Sept. 1 of their junior years, two PSAs received an email from a member of OSU’s football recruiting staff that included photos of the PSAs taken during an unofficial visit. The Big 12 sent OSU screenshots of tweets with those images. OSU conducted two education sessions with staff and changed how it distributes photos of PSAs “not yet able to receive recruiting correspondence.”

• A football staff member posted a tweet that included a PSA’s hometown. The staff member had been notified including hometown information in a tweet was a violation but “simply forgot.” The Big 12 sent OSU a screenshot of the tweet, which has been deleted.

• A men’s basketball player’s stepmother was undercharged by $541.26 for her six-night stay at the Atherton Hotel, OSU’s on-campus hotel, because the reservation was made through the athletic department, which, like other institutional entities, receives a discounted rate at the hotel that is not applicable to student-athlete’s parents. The violation came to light after OSU reviewed circumstances related to the student-athlete’s recruitment in the wake of assistant coach Lamont Evans’ involvement in an FBI investigation. OSU required the student-athlete’s family to pay the amount of the undercharge to a charity of its choice.

• While boarding a flight, men’s basketball coach Mike Boynton received a call from a 2020 PSA’s father. Boynton responded via text that he would be on a flight for the next hour and a half. [The Oklahoman]

You can read the full list of reported violations at The Oklahoman here.

Most of the response to the violations came via educated sessions to those who were found to have violated the NCAA’s letter of the law. Here’s to hoping such egregious violations will prevent incidents — like the one discovered below — away from the OSU campus.

These types of things simply can’t be tolerated.

• A men’s track student-athlete created a GoFundMe account to buy a car, receiving only a $5 donation from his girlfriend. After a coach notified the compliance office, the student-athlete was deemed ineligible for competition until he deactivated the account and returned the $5 to the donor, which he did immediately. [The Oklahoman]

No word yet on whether a five-part series is coming on the track student-athlete from SI.