NCAA Makes Initial Inquiry Into Bulldog Basketball
The Clarion-Ledger is reporting today that the NCAA has made an initial inquiry into the MSU Men’s Basketball program, focusing on specific recruiting trips and recruiting practices. The inquiry centers around trips made in the fall of 2004.
The NCAA enforcement staff asked Mississippi State for paperwork detailing several recruiting trips, a memo said. It is inquiring into one incident rather than conducting a program-wide investigation, MSU athletic director Larry Templeton said, but he declined to elaborate on the specific incident.
Collegiate athletics’ governing body made its initial inquiry into the incident by telephone, according to a Nov. 15 memo from MSU coordinator of compliance Bracky Brett in response to the enforcement staff.
Accompanying the memo was a packet that included expense reports, travel reimbursement forms and daily records of contacts and evaluations on recruiting trips made by MSU coach Rick Stansbury and assistants Robert Kirby and Phil Cunningham. The 20 pages of documents list trips made from Sept. 9, 2004 to Nov. 28, 2004.
