The NCAA has hit former Morehead State, Southern Miss and Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall with a 10-year show-cause penalty, according to a tweet from Gary Parrish of CBS Sports.
The NCAA has hit Donnie Tyndall with a 10-year show-cause penalty for his role in the Southern Miss case, a source told @CBSSports.
— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) April 8, 2016
Tyndall, 45, could now find himself out of the coaching game for a decade as a result of this penalty. A show-cause penalty means that any sanctions the NCAA imposes on a coach are transferred to any school that hires him, even if they run a squeaky-clean program. If the coach suffers, so does the program regardless of circumstance in the NCAA’s eyes.
In the case of Donnie Tyndall, what earned him this hefty penalty was two years at Southern Miss that were just conducted improperly. Tyndall was accused of providing improper financial aid to two players, and there were also academic issues surrounding junior college transfers. Tyndall was hired at Tennessee just as this activity was coming to light, but was terminated by the university after just one season because he was found to have lied to Vols officials several times about the severity of the violations.
To add insult to injury, Tyndall was discovered to have deleted a number of emails tying him to the scandal.
Needless to say, the man deserves this 10-year show-cause penalty entirely.
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