Report: Documents Show Major NCAA Violations by Iowa State University

After Iowa State University self-reported possible NCAA recruiting violations, documents obtained through an open records request show the violations to be "major", according to one central Iowa newspaper.

The university self-reported the violations on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Des Moines Register. The violations, mostly dealing in illegal communication with potential recruits, were outlined in a summary disposition report that Iowa State and the NCAA both agreed to.

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The report revealed that 1,484 impermissible phone calls to recruits were made from 2008 to 2011. The report said 1,405 of the total calls involved logging issues, the Register said. Six current and former coaches, all in men’s basketball or football, were highlighted in the report.

According to the article, five of those coaches include assistant football coaches Shane Burnham and Bill Bleil; former football assistant coaches Luke Wells and Bob Elliott; and former assistant basketball coach Daniyal Robinson. Former student basketball coach Keith Moore was the sixth coach involved.

In 2012, the NCAA deregulated texts and calls to basketball recruits who had completed their sophomore year of high school, according to ESPN.

The lifting of a similar restriction for football recruits will be reviewed in May, according to the Bleacher Report. The Bleacher blog said that people at the college and high school levels were concerned that athletes and high school coaches would be inundated if the restrictions were lifted.

Previously, Iowa State declined to name the sports involved the recruiting violations, but said in a release that the Athletics Department “reviewed three years worth of telephone and text message activity for every member of its coaching staff in all 18 of its sports.”

The university released more information late last week despite NCAA wishes to keep the report confidential. The decision was made in light of the Iowa Board of Regent's new transparency initiatives.