Jackson State Football Program Put On Probation By The NCAA And Hit With Recruiting Restrictions

Founders Day for Jackson State University is a bit of a dark day in 2020. The Jackson State Football program has been put on probation and hit with some recruiting restrictions. According to the NCAA, Jackson State had 34 student-athletes practice and compete before receiving final certification from the NCAA Eligibility Center. This violation was deemed a failure to monitor the program. The program also is charged for paying $300 to the godmother of a football prospect and arranging impermissible tutoring for a student-athlete. These are both Level II violations according to the NCAA.

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Jackson State placed on probation by NCAA for recruiting violations https://t.co/TM1CDegiMS

— HBCU Sports (@HBCUSports) October 23, 2020

Jackson State, the former staffer, and the NCAA have agreed on the violations. That agreement means that the penalties regarding this case are not eligible to be appealed. It is already hard enough to recruit at a small program like Jackson State University. Moving forward, recruiting will definitely suffer some adversity for Head Coach Deion Sanders and his staff. The list of penalties to the Jackson State Athletic Program is summarized below:

• Two years of probation
• A $5,000 fine
• A 2% reduction in baseball scholarship equivalencies
• The Football program must sere a one-week ban on unofficial visits in each of January, February, March, and April of 2021
• A reduction of four football official paid visits during the 2021-22 academic year
• A vacation of records of contests in which student-athletes participated while ineligible.

Jackson State University must provide a written report containing the contests impacted to the NCAA media coordination and statistics staff within 14 days of the public release of the decision. All of these violations happened before Deion Sanders took the head coaching job, so I assume he knew the possible ramifications. It will be interesting to see how Deion and Jackson State handle these violations moving forward. It will definitely be an uphill climb.

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