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Ga. Tech Unsure of Violations’ Impact

ATLANTA – Geor­gia Tech offi­cials are con­sid­er­ing the impli­ca­tions of this week’s dis­clo­sure that the school broke NCAA recruit­ing rules.

Co-offensive line coach Todd Spencer resigned under pres­sure after the school dis­cov­ered his imper­mis­si­ble texts to recruits. Spencer’s res­ig­na­tion and the rules vio­la­tions were announced on Wednesday’s open­ing of the national sign­ing period for high school players.

The dis­clo­sure of the vio­la­tions came seven months after the NCAA placed Geor­gia Tech on four years pro­ba­tion and stripped the school of its 2009 ACC cham­pi­onship for using an inel­i­gi­ble player.

Asso­ciate ath­letic direc­tor Wayne Hogan said Fri­day he doesn’t know if the NCAA will con­sider the vio­la­tions sec­ondary or major or if the new vio­la­tions will be viewed in a dif­fer­ent way by the NCAA’s enforce­ment office because the school is on probation.

“It has been dif­fi­cult to get a han­dle on what’s auto­matic, whether it will or will not be sec­ondary or major,” Hogan told The Asso­ci­ated Press. “We’re being cau­tious. We’re cau­tious about every­thing right now as we should be.

“We’ve kind of learned our les­son since last sum­mer and we’re try­ing to do every­thing by the let­ter of the law. The best thing we can do, as we’ve learned, is to keep them fully engaged and involved in the process, so that’s what we’ve tried to do with this one since we first dis­cov­ered it.”

Hogan said he doesn’t believe the new vio­la­tions will affect the school’s appeal to have last year’s penal­ties reduced. He said a ver­dict on the appeal is expected soon. The NCAA penal­ties included a $ 100,000 fine.

When it announced the pro­ba­tion in July, the NCAA said Geor­gia Tech should have declared receiver Demary­ius Thomas inel­i­gi­ble after he accepted gifts from a for­mer player who was work­ing for an agent.

The NCAA also found prob­lems in the bas­ket­ball pro­gram and reduced recruit­ing days and offi­cial vis­its for the bas­ket­ball team for two seasons.

Hogan said Ath­letic Direc­tor Dan Radakovich and Geor­gia Tech Pres­i­dent Bud Peter­son have “talked at length about the impor­tance of adher­ence to the rules” since the school was placed on probation.

Cit­ing the renewed empha­sis on fol­low­ing the rules, Radakovich deliv­ered a stern mes­sage when the new vio­la­tions were announced this week. He called the imper­mis­si­ble tex­ting by Spencer “inex­plic­a­ble” on Wednes­day and added more strong lan­guage in a mes­sage to fans released on Thursday.

“We con­tinue to take pos­i­tive steps to bol­ster our com­pli­ance staff and mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems at Geor­gia Tech,” Radakovich said. “It is very dif­fi­cult to under­stand why an employee would vio­late these rules with regard to text mes­sag­ing after our ongo­ing focus to edu­cate our per­son­nel on NCAA rules and reg­u­la­tions. Actions of this type sim­ply are not accept­able in our ath­letic program.”

Radakovich said the prob­lem was promptly reported to the NCAA. He said coach Paul John­son rec­om­mended that Spencer be fired.

“I com­mend coach John­son for his stead­fast action in this case in rec­om­mend­ing to me that this employee be removed from the staff,” Radakovich said. “I have directed our com­pli­ance staff to con­tinue to review the text and phone records of all of our coaches on an ongo­ing basis, as is the man­date and expec­ta­tion of Geor­gia Tech and the NCAA.”

A mem­ber of the NCAA’s enforce­ment staff did not imme­di­ately reply to an inter­view request.

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