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Georgia has committed 3 secondary violations in football recruiting.  Where are the vultures? 

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Georgia reports six secondary violations to NCAA
By TIM TUCKER

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Georgia has self-reported six secondary violations of NCAA rules this year, three of them involving the football program, according to information obtained from UGA under open-records laws.

The violations, reported through May 31, have been resolved to the satisfaction of the NCAA and SEC, according to Eric Baumgartner, UGA’s assistant athletics director for compliance.

The NCAA defines secondary violations as inadvertent or isolated incidents that don’t produce a significant recruiting or competitive advantage. Such violations are commonly self-reported by schools to the NCAA.

“We’re not intending to violate rules, but sometimes hiccups happen,” Baumgartner said Tuesday. “And we report and move forward.”

One of the football violations involved four UGA players receiving complimentary tickets to an NFL game from a friend playing in the league. The resolution in that case, Baumgartner said, was for the players to repay the cost of the tickets.

Georgia wouldn’t release the names of the players, citing a federal law regarding the privacy of student records.

The two other football violations involved NCAA rules limiting phone calls to recruits.

In one case, a coaching staff member left a message for a recruit after another staff member spoke with the player the previous day. The penalty was a two-week ban on calling the recruit.

In another case, a UGA booster telephoned a recruit. The booster received “education” on the rules, Baumgartner said.

The non-football cases involved the women’s basketball, women’s tennis and track-and-field programs:

• The mother of a basketball recruit was improperly provided an additional hotel room while she and her daughter were en route to UGA for an official visit. No action was required because the player did not sign with Georgia.

• A tennis player received an athletics grant-in-aid for less than the one-year period required by the NCAA. Georgia was warned not to let it happen again.

• A track-and-field recruit made an official visit to campus without being added to the NCAA Eligibility Center’s Web site, as required.

As previously reported, Georgia had 15 secondary violations, none involving the football program, from July 1-Dec. 31, 2008.