Purdue Put On Ncaa Probation

Thu., July 1, 1999

The NCAA slapped Purdue with a two-year probation for major rules violations in the men’s basketball program and recommended the university be forced to pay more than $380,000 in penalties, sanctions school officials decried as excessive and baseless.

The Boilermakers were spared bans from postseason tournaments or restrictions on television appearances, and coach Gene Keady was not cited. But athletic director Morgan Burke said the school would appeal the decision within an NCAA-imposed 15-day deadline.

The Committee on Infractions cut a scholarship from the men’s basketball team, limited recruiting visits to the school and recommended the NCAA force Purdue to pay back most of its proceeds from appearances in the NCAA Tournament.

Most of the sanctions involved assistant coach Frank Kendrick, who met with then-recruit Jamaal Davis in the summer of 1996 during a period when coaches are barred from contact with recruits and allegedly helped secure a loan for former player Luther Clay.

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