USF’s athletic department is self-reporting a secondary rules violation to the NCAA after men’s basketball coach Stan Heath and his assistants spent nine more days on the road recruiting than allowed during the 2007-08 school year.
The coaches “mistakenly calculated” multiday tournaments as a single day, the report shows, and USF has offered to reduce the number of recruiting days, normally 130, by 14 in 2008-09, a penalty of 1.5 days for each extra day taken. Heath and his staff did not travel for player evaluations last weekend as a result of being over the limit. Once spring classes have ended, coaches have unlimited days to recruit during the summer.