Minor recruiting violation self reported for UW Football team.

Why does everything negative seem to come from King 5? I mean they were the same ones who put a hugely negative slant on the UWs attempt to get help with the Husky Stadium project. What gives, is there reporting crew inundated with wsu grads?!

It was reported to the NCAA as a secondary violation and released in a public disclosure attachment in Janaury 2009. Don James was right about the Seattle News Media not supporting Husky ATHLETICS. This happened during his first weekend as head coach. Scum reporting by Chris Egan at King TV.

…apparently there is an assumption made that alcohol was purchased and that’s not necessarily the case. It was just the fact that a loan was given to recruits at this “nightclub”.

Here’s more proof that King5 was on a witch hunt trying to purposely damage the UW football program on the same day that Locker announced he’d return. Thanks to Bob Condotta for researching the WHOLE story and getting to the truth.

To Scott Woodward: I highly recommend that you do not allow any King5 employees to attend, any and all events at the UW, until King5 publicly apologizes for this false attack on the UW football program!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskyfootballblog/2010513432_clearing_up_some_details_on_th_1.html

Clearing up some details on the violation story

Posted by Bob Condotta

I know this is nobody’s favorite piece of reading on this blog, but in the interest of trying to get all of the facts straight on the violation story that surfaced last night, here are a few other items of note on that:

The original KING-5 story says the violation was for purchasing alcohol for underage recruits. In fact, a UW spokesman says the self-report filed by the school on the incident does not mention that alcohol was purchased. Instead, the report says the incident occurred at a nightclub - not necessarily a 21-and-over only place - but does not specify that the tab was for alcohol. So alcohol was not necessarily involved and sounds as if the players were not necessarily at an establishment where they were not legally allowed to be. There was a bill of roughly $300 that was paid for by some of the current members of the team, and that is what the violation was. When recruits come on visits, they are hosted by a current player. That current player is allowed to spend no more than $30 per day on entertainment involved with the visit. The players sign what is essentially a contract stating that they understand that rule, not really a waiver, as KING referred to it.

I have one of the standard issues of those contracts that basically all players at all schools sign in such instances - and it clearly states the $30 rule. UW admitted that some of the current players exceeded the $30 limit in paying for the bill run up by the recruits. So that was the violation. The spokesman said the prospects paid the money back to the current students and also made a donation to charity. The current players were punished internally and also made to perform some community service.

According to a UW spokesman, it happened on what was the first full recruiting weekend for the Huskies last year, so the weekend of Jan. 16-18, not Steve Sarkisian’s first weekend as coach, as the KING-5 story said. The spokesman said when coaches found out about the violation they self-reported it to the UW compliance office and it was then reported to the Pac-10, which has already handled it and it is considered closed. For secondary violations, the conference generally accepts the penalties the school enforces on itself and that’s what happened in this case. The spokesman said no coaches were involved in the violation. UW did have three secondary violations last year, all in January. But the spokesman said UW has not had any football recruiting violations, secondary or major, since then. The spokesman said going to nightclubs is not a violation of NCAA rules for recruiting visits, but does go against Washington’s own policies for such visits. So the players involved were reprimanded for violating that policy.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskyfootballblog/index.html

As a kid growing up in Lakewood WA., my whole family watched King5. I just don’t understand how they can allow themselves to become so biased against the HOME TEAM! Get your facts straight before you report the story! But I suppose they wouldn’t have been in a position to report the story on the same day Jake Locker announces he’ll return! Unreal!

cegan@king5.com I emailed him and let him know I wasn’t happy. Get the facts straight BEFORE you let something go to press!

See my other fanpost for details

I normally defend the media from the slings and arrows of angered fans, but not this time. Totally unwarranted as a lead story and done with exceptionally questionable timing. Local TV news is a joke, and this just reinforces why I haven’t watched local TV news in over a decade.

…to me anyway, it appears that the total was 300 dollars. That was for all three of the attendees. So in reality, 100 dollars was paid for the prospective student athlete and that was the violation. There was no mention in the report of alcohol.

Why is KINGTV not investigating all the arrest and alcohol charges at WSU since Janurary 21, 2009. Now that would make some interesting print. 30 arrests in 28 months.

But Cougs are not everybody.

Why should any college’s out there self report anything with what goes on at USC.