Article: Ruling adds to 'bad boy' stigma of junior colleges

Ron Black and Verties Sails coach basketball at junior colleges, and still they're smart enough to know when they're being insulted.

In adjudicating the rules violations case against New Mexico State, which included charges of academic fraud, the NCAA Committee on Infractions placed the Aggies on a three-year probation-including a one-year self-imposed postseason ban served last year-and prohibited them from recruiting junior-college players for two years.

Roy Kramer, acting committee chair, says the junior-college restriction is aimed at giving the Aggies "an appropriate period of time to put in the system in which they can evaluate and maintain academic records and monitor transfer ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!