In keeping with the interest that some on this board have expressed about the 70's era football teams (and why during the 80s and beyond ISU turned into such a dog), I would like to discuss those NCAA infractions that lead to reduced football scholarships over a number of years at ISU.
My memory of these infractions is hazy, so I wonder if anyone could fill in the details (or perhaps, most of the story). I believe that some of the infractions came under the Donnie Duncan era, but most of them came under the Jim Criner era. I also believe that of those that came under the Criner era, there was one NCAA penalty that took an extremely large number of scholarships from the ISU program (something like 20 or 40). And it was that penalty that combined with the NCAA imposing lowered caps on recruiting that pretty much mandated that ISU Football, even when recruiting the maximum number of players allowed by the NCAA, would not reach the full number of allotted scholarship players for something like 10 years after the initial penalty was announced (or well into, and even past the Walden era).
Can anyone add more detail to this and/or correct the information? I tried to google for a history of NCAA football violations by school, but was unsuccessful. I suppose someone could sit down with the Des Moines Register microfiche archives from the 80's and on into the first year or so of McCarney's era, but I don't have those resources or time.
CC
My memory of these infractions is hazy, so I wonder if anyone could fill in the details (or perhaps, most of the story). I believe that some of the infractions came under the Donnie Duncan era, but most of them came under the Jim Criner era. I also believe that of those that came under the Criner era, there was one NCAA penalty that took an extremely large number of scholarships from the ISU program (something like 20 or 40). And it was that penalty that combined with the NCAA imposing lowered caps on recruiting that pretty much mandated that ISU Football, even when recruiting the maximum number of players allowed by the NCAA, would not reach the full number of allotted scholarship players for something like 10 years after the initial penalty was announced (or well into, and even past the Walden era).
Can anyone add more detail to this and/or correct the information? I tried to google for a history of NCAA football violations by school, but was unsuccessful. I suppose someone could sit down with the Des Moines Register microfiche archives from the 80's and on into the first year or so of McCarney's era, but I don't have those resources or time.
CC
