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Southern California received a two-year bowl ban and a sharp loss of football scholarships Thursday when the NCAA released its report detailing a four-year investigation of the school.
The NCAA cited USC for a lack of institutional control, detailing numerous violations primarily involving Heisman Trophy-winning tailback Reggie Bush and men's basketball player O.J. Mayo.
Here's a summary of the findings and penalties imposed:
Findings:
-Lack of institutional control. The NCAA said Southern California failed to heed clear warning signs about improprieties; did not have proper procedures in place to monitor rules compliance; failed to regulate access to practice, locker rooms and other facilities; and failed to proactively investigate their concerns.
-Impermissible inducements and extra benefits. The NCAA said Bush, his mother and stepfather formed a partnership with two individuals from a sports agency in October 2004. Bush and his family, the NCAA found, received several thousand dollars, a car, housing, a washer and dryer, air travel and hotel lodging. In addition, Bush and his family received additional benefits from another sports marketing agency from November 2005 to January 2006. Those benefits included air travel, transportation, lodging and repairs to the automobile purchased by the previous agency.
-Impermissible inducements and extra benefits. The NCAA found Mayo, his brother, his girlfriend and his girlfriend's mother received cash, lodging, transportation, meals, air travel, professional personal trainers, a cell phone, wireless service, a TV, watches, shoes and clothing from a pro sports agency. The representative from the agency, the NCAA said, had previously committed two other NCAA infractions.
-Impermissible inducements and extra benefits. The NCAA said that from November 2006 through March 2009, a former women's tennis player used an athletic department long-distance access code to make 123 unauthorized international telephone calls to family members, totaling more than $7,000 in charges.
-Exceeding coaching staff limits. The NCAA said coach Pete Carroll hired a consultant in August 2008. The consultant attended practices, analyzed video and made observations and analyses of the university's special teams with Carroll for the entire 2008 regular season. These activities meant Southern Cal exceeded the maximum total of countable coaches.
-Unethical conduct. The NCAA said an assistant football coach received a phone call on Jan. 8, 2006, from one of Bush's representatives who wanted help in getting Bush to pay back the agency for the money and benefits. The assistant coach, however, did not inform the university's compliance staff and later provided false and misleading testimony to the enforcement staff, the NCAA report said.
Penalties:
-Public reprimand and censure.
-Four years probation running from June 10, 2010, through June 9, 2014.
-Postseaeon ban for 2010 and 2011 football seasons.
-Reduction of football scholarships to 15 for 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years with a total amount of 75 scholarship players. That is a decrease of 10 scholarships for each of the three seasons.
-Must vacate all wins, including bowl games, in which Bush participated in beginning in December 2004.
-Postseason ban for 2009-10 men's basketball tournament (self-imposed).
-Reduction of men's basketball scholarships from 13 to 12 in 2009-10 and 2010-11 (self-imposed).
-Reduction of 20 recruiting days, from 130 to 110, in men's basketball for 2010-11 (self-imposed).
-Must vacate all wins, including tourney games, in which Mayo played during the 2007-08 season (self-imposed).
-Release of three men's basketball recruits from their letters of intent (self-imposed).
- Disassociating itself with Bush, Mayo and the representative who provided extra benefits to Mayo.
-Prohibition of all non-university personnel, including boosters, from traveling on football and men's basketball charters; attending football and men's basketball team practices; attending or participating in any way with university football and men's basketball camps, including donating funds; and access to the sidelines and locker rooms for football and men's basketball games.
-Must return the $206,200 Southern Cal received for playing in the 2008 men's basketball tourney (self-imposed), and forfeit all future distributions from the 2008 tourney appearance.
-A $5,000 financial penalty (self-imposed).
-One-year show-cause penalty for an assistant football coach, running through June 9, 2011.
-Must vacate all wins, including postseason tournaments, in which a former women's tennis player competed in from November 2006 through May 2009
Avoided:
-Television ban, which committee said was seriously considered.
