Jimbo Fisher Hit With A Show-Cause By NCAA

Jimbo Fisher has been hit with a six month show-cause penalty by the NCAA for recruiting infractions. Texas A&M has announced the assistant at the center of this with Fisher was former assistant Jay Graham, who is now at Tennessee. Graham was also hit with the six-month show-cause.

From the NCAA's statement:

The Texas A&M football program violated NCAA recruiting and countable athletically related activity rules between January 2018 and February 2019, according to an agreement released by the Division I Committee on Infractions. The head football coach also violated NCAA head coach responsibility rules.

The university, head coach and NCAA enforcement staff agreed that the head coach and an assistant coach had impermissible recruiting contact with a prospect at his high school. The conversation was impermissible because it occurred before the completion of the prospect’s junior year in high school.

Regarding the countable athletically related activity violations, during permissible weeks of spring and summer activity, the football program unintentionally caused student-athletes to exceed activity time limits by approximately seven hours.

Here are the penalties for the show-cause:

Read the full NCAA statement here.