Associated Press
LUBBOCK -- Texas Tech filed a report with the NCAA over the summer admitting violations of a ban on text-messaging recruits in three sports -- football, men's golf and softball.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Tech athletic director Gerald Myers referred most questions to Brian Shannon, Tech's faculty representative who has communicated with NCAA and Big 12 Conference officials on the case.
Shannon told the newspaper that violations were uncovered last February by Tech's athletic compliance staff in a routine review of phone records. He said that after an internal investigation, Tech sent a report to the NCAA and the Big 12 in July that included self-imposed penalties.
Tech imposed its own penalties in football that included giving up one scholarship for 2010 and reducing the number of campus visits to four fewer recruits than the program's average over the last four years.
He said "comparable" sanctions had also been imposed on men's golf and softball. He said each team would give up a fraction of one scholarship and "some limitation or reduction in official paid visits in both."
The NCAA could accept Tech's self-imposed punishment or add sanctions.
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