Recruiting violations

Missouri disciplines coaches for calls to Clemons

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Missouri coach Quin Snyder and assistant Lane Odom were temporarily banned by the athletic department from recruiting because they violated NCAA rules on calling recruits.

The school told the NCAA last month that on five occasions Odom violated a rule that limits coaches to calling a recruit once a week, sports information director Chad Moller said Friday. The calls were made between January and April 2002 to Ricky Clemons, then a sophomore at the College of Southern Idaho.

The school suspended Odom from recruiting for five weeks. Snyder, who had also made calls to Clemons during that time, was suspended for three weeks, Moller said. Both suspensions have been served.

Missouri told the NCAA it discovered the violations on Jan. 30, six days after the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked to inspect the coaches' phone records.

In a letter to the NCAA, Missouri faculty athletics representative Carl Settergren noted Snyder's "lack of oversight to ensure appropriate record keeping for the men's basketball logs."

Records obtained by the Post-Dispatch showed that Odom made more than 50 calls to Clemons in the three months before Clemons committed to the school. Settergren explained that Odom had been a longtime mentor to Clemons, and therefore did not record them on the recruitment logs.

 

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