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SEC expands serious misconduct policy to include high school signees
https://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/06/sec_expands_serious_misconduct.html#incart_river_index
High school recruits with past incidents of serious misconduct are now barred from the SEC.
The conference's Executive Committee overwhelmingly supported and passed a proposal to expand its serious misconduct policy, along with 14 other legislative proposals, during its Spring Meetings in Destin on Friday.
The league's landmark policy, as expanded, now prohibits prospective athletes as well as transfers who've been convicted, pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony involving sexual assault, domestic violence or other forms of sexual violence or faced discipline at previous colleges for such interpersonal violence to compete in athletics at a conference school and includes the expectation of "due diligence" into reviewing a prospective athlete's background.
"I'm anxious to have less of these instances occurring, period," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said on Friday. "I think a statement from this conference that even before you're on our campuses there are expectations about how you conduct our lives. That's a central theme in what we've done over the last three years. It's a message for families, for perspective student-athletes, for those engaged in the lives of those young people to help mentor and guide them to avoid these pitfalls."
SEC expands serious misconduct policy to include high school signees
https://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/06/sec_expands_serious_misconduct.html#incart_river_index
High school recruits with past incidents of serious misconduct are now barred from the SEC.
The conference's Executive Committee overwhelmingly supported and passed a proposal to expand its serious misconduct policy, along with 14 other legislative proposals, during its Spring Meetings in Destin on Friday.
The league's landmark policy, as expanded, now prohibits prospective athletes as well as transfers who've been convicted, pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony involving sexual assault, domestic violence or other forms of sexual violence or faced discipline at previous colleges for such interpersonal violence to compete in athletics at a conference school and includes the expectation of "due diligence" into reviewing a prospective athlete's background.
"I'm anxious to have less of these instances occurring, period," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said on Friday. "I think a statement from this conference that even before you're on our campuses there are expectations about how you conduct our lives. That's a central theme in what we've done over the last three years. It's a message for families, for perspective student-athletes, for those engaged in the lives of those young people to help mentor and guide them to avoid these pitfalls."
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