The NCAA Committee on Infractions is soon expected to release its report -- and hand down penalties -- in the University of Oregon case involving the Ducks' use of recruiting services. In a failed attempt at summary disposition with the NCAA last year, UO officials agreed that the case was "major" in nature and proposed a two-year probation and loss of one scholarship for each of the next three seasons, among other smaller sanctions.
The infractions committee released its findings Friday in a case involving Mississippi State. Bulldogs officials reportedly appeared before the committee on April 19 -- the same day UO officials appeared before the committee.
Britton Banowsky, chairman of the Committee on Infractions, told reporters that penalties weren't more severe in part because of Mississippi State's cooperation in the case. The committee essentially accepted the school's self-imposed penalties.
