The NCAA has announced it will hold a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the Committee on Infractions’ decision regarding suspended Georgia Bulldogs coach Jack Bauerle.
Baurle’s status has been hanging in the balance since early 2014, when he was put under investigation for potential academic violations.
Baurle was suspended indefinitely by the University in April, and had an official hearing with the NCAA back in October. There has been no word on the outcome of that hearing to this point, but it looks like the final decision may be coming out tomorrow.
Fox Sports reporter Bruce Feldman tweeted earlier today that the NCAA would hold a press conference at 1 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday to discuss its decision:
The NCAA announces it’ll hold a 1 PM ET press conference Tuesday to discuss the COI decision regarding #UGA.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 15, 2014
The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has reportedly been primarily looking at the #UGA swimming & diving program.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 15, 2014
The Georgia women won the NCAA title last season despite Bauerle being suspended for most of the second semester. The team has been swimming under acting head coach and former assistant Harvey Humphries, but all parties involved have been hoping for an official decision to bring closure on the Baurle situation, as well as give the team clarity on its coaching situation moving forward.
Me thinks that the student rolled on his coach to save his swimming season.
Hope you mean UNC was the ‘big bang’ there….I know virtually all the details about the UGA situation, and this is truly a witch hunt and an afront to our entire sport. What I mean is that it is such a minor violation on Bauerle’s part compared to the everyday operations of football and basketball programs across the country, that we should take offense that the NCAA thinks it is ok to go after a swim coach so hard so that they can pretend to be doing their jobs while they plug their ears and look away when a football program graduates illiterate players, a basketball program allows a player to avoid taking ANY classes the one year they are… Read more »
i blame chase for not going to class and not studying or else he wouldn’t have been in the situation and bauerle wouldn’t have felt an urgency to help him out. maybe chase should pay the $5k fine ….athletes should be accountable for their actions!
I understand your perspective, but I don’t agree. A large public university like UGA, despite not being academically rigorous in any sense, is extremely difficult to navigate with respect to staying NCAA eligible and compliant. The bureaucracy at large public universities leaves students falling through the cracks all the time. This is not so at large privates, where hands are held, grades are inflated, and the university’s desire to matriculate it’s students in good academic standing is palpable – why? Because students who don’t graduate don’t donate, and the large privates and Ivys are more investment banks in this day and age than institutions with academic integrity.
If you want to blame Chase for not being prepared, then blame… Read more »
i agree that bauerle was wrong in asking the prof to do this for chase…i think the coach has to make the athlete accountable for his own actions…of not going to class and not studying….i have actually heard he is still skipping classes and still shaky academically! bauerle goes through hell for him and he still didn’t learn!!!
Ok fair enough. Our sources are different people. We can agree on that 🙂
Are we really comparing coach Baurele’s incident to North Carolina ‘s? Like comparing the Big Bang to a fire cracker.
A Syracuse basketball coach once said that the NCAA is a puppy looking for a leg to pee on. Nothing more accurate or true has ever been said or written. A two decade long academic fraud at UNC goes unnoticed and 18 months after discovery is still not sanctioned in any way by the NCAA, yet Bauerle’s mistake or lack of better judgment once is enough to hand out pitchforks and torches to have a good ‘ole riot? The swimming community should be smarter than to join any angry mob or take a grave sanction against Coach Bauerle without a fight back. Let’s keep this debate on the rails. Bauerle made one mistake with one student athlete, and frankly all… Read more »
Two thoughts: First, with regard to the UNC issues, because they became big news during the process for Bauerle, the NCAA will over correct in his case. Not fair by any means but one can already argue with the length of time it has taken to come to a conclusion in this case, it has. The NCAA will want to look like they are taking academic issues seriously and the only way they can do that is to over correct. It is all about optics.
The second thought I have is with regard to those who say he didn’t do anything, shame on you. I do not have any skin in the game with regard to Georgia or UNC but… Read more »
Jack Bauerle’s contribution to the Swimming World deserves consideration when weighing in on any further punishment. The word on the pool deck is that the punishment already is outweighing the infraction with his absence. Hypocrisy abounds in so many matters with the NCAA and schools who make promises to student athletes they can’t fulfill. Jack and Harvey have been tremendous brand builders to The University of Georgia and to swimming. One phone call leads to this? Just look at the record of Louisville’s Head Football Coach, Bobby Petrino and tell me that NCAA has it right…………….character, integrity, effectiveness. Go Dawgs
So you want bias in judiciary bodies? That’s not how a “court” of any kind should work, and for good reason. The rules are the rules, and that should be the end of the discussion.
If Jack goes I’ll be sorry to see it, but it’s nobody’s fault but his own.
Actually UNC were already punished in 2011. The reports that came out were internal school reports. So they did have something happen
if you think their punishment is done you’re a fool…
Not saying they are done. I am just pointing out that they have been punished to, dawgs response that unc hasn’t been punished.
Jack deserves what’s coming. We all know what he did is wrong. You can’t compromise yourself for any athlete. He let the team down. He should have resigned
UNCFAN: If you’re so knowledgeable, please enlighten us. What did he do?
with that logic, UNC’s athletic programs should be given the death penalty
many think that’s what should have happened (including myself), but I think NCAA has too much to lose from UNC basketball being banned.
Must be bad news if they feel the need to hold a press conference. This has dragged on for months. They’ll probably throw the book at Georgia but UNC has a huge academic scandal with their football program with fake classes/fake degrees and nothing happens. The NCAA is a freaking joke.
unfortunately – i don’t think the ncaa has any credibility when it comes to investigations
look at how they mismanaged the university of miami and penn state
look at the syracuse basketball – 7 years of investigation…the ncaa has lost most power to the big 5 conferences (ncaa was left out of the football playoff with no authority) …and as mentioned what type of penalty for north carolina ….too bad but hope coach b gets to return immediately and an apology that this took a year to figure out