UCF AD resigns amid recruiting allegations
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UCF AD resigns amid recruiting allegations
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Central Florida's athletic director and a football assistant resigned Wednesday after the school was hit with more NCAA violations, this time for involvement with runners for sports agents and cash payments and gifts to recruits.
Athletic director Keith Tribble and assistant football coach David Kelly stepped down after the NCAA cited UCF — which is currently on probation for previous violations — for unethical conduct amid allegations of recruiting violations in its football and basketball programs.
Men's basketball coach Donnie Jones was suspended for three games by UCF and given a letter of reprimand.
The NCAA notified UCF of the allegations in a letter dated Nov. 7. The notice details a list of infractions that Tribble, Kelly, also the wide receivers coach, and other athletic department employees participated in between March 2009 and July 2011. The infractions include involvement with reputed agent runners, current athletes and several potential recruits and also inducements including cash payments and gifts.
UCF President John Hitt denounced the allegations and pledged to comply fully with all the NCAA's requests and make changes to UCF's compliance.
"The conduct detailed by the NCAA's report falls far short of our university standards and my own expectations of how our athletics program should operate," Hitt said Wednesday at a news conference.
Hitt said Jones was suspended because he ""failed to maintain a culture of compliance" in the recruitment of a pair of players.
UCF football coach George O'Leary was not cited for wrongdoing by the NCAA in the report.
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