All articles tagged with #ncaa infractions
The article covers several major college sports stories: Michigan football faces NCAA sanctions over sign-stealing; Texas softball wins its first Women's World Series title; Oregon's top receiver Evan Stewart suffers a significant knee injury; and other updates including Ohio State recruiting and Big Ten playoff proposals.
Jeremy Pruitt, the former Tennessee football coach who was fired due to an NCAA infractions case, has been hired as a physical education teacher and junior high boys basketball coach at Plainview High School in Rainsville, Alabama, his high school alma mater. His wife, Casey Pruitt, has also been hired as an English teacher at the same school. The couple's contracts are set to begin on August 1 pending background checks and appropriate certification. Pruitt was given a six-year show-cause penalty by the NCAA, but this does not affect his ability to coach at the high school level.
Former LSU football coach Les Miles is no longer eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame due to the NCAA infractions decision that vacated 37 football wins from 2012-15, dropping his career winning percentage below the required .600. The decision was part of the investigation into LSU's football and men's basketball programs. Miles was also dismissed from his most recent coaching job at Kansas in 2021 amid allegations of sexual misconduct while he was at LSU.