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Bigred2467

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The NCAA announced on April 14, 2026, that the Iowa Hawkeyes must vacate four 2023 football wins due to recruiting tampering violations involving quarterback Cade McNamara. The violations, which occurred in late 2022, involved impermissible contact by head coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant Jon Budmayr before McNamara officially entered the transfer portal.

The four wins to be vacated from the 2023 season are against Utah State, Iowa State, Western Michigan, and Michigan State.
 

Cjlemke21

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In all honesty if the NCAA wants to stop being a laughing stock then they have a lot more than Iowa to worry about with tampering. I’m quite sure almost every from the major conferences tamper. The NCAA needs to stop picking and choosing when to enforce rules or how to enforce rules…

I think Tampering should be punished, but only if it’s enforced evenly with all teams.
 

Mack In Motion

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They're going to smack Iowa for a recruiting violation?

Why WOULDN'T Iowa tamper? They probably watched Harbaugh tamper with everything under the sun and thought "damn, there's no actual, tangible penalty for that. Therefore, if we're not cheating, we're not keeping up".

Everything about the NCAA just sucks.

When they vacate a season or two from Michigan, and bar them from a postseason, they'll be taken seriously.
 

mgbreeze

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Who cares? Everyone knows who won those games. Vacating wins is the most empty gesture in the history of "punishment." If Rhule could be so lucky as to commit violations that would result in 10 wins next year that would subsequently be vacated years later - GREAT, sign us up!
 

davecisar

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I dislike Iowa fans- but admire their coaches and team results.

However what a joke the NCAA is picking on Iowa-, its like littering for them. When LSU and Mississippi are committing mass murder in comparison. The NCAA leaves the SEC and blue bloods alone for the most part.
 

SuperBigFan69

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I dislike Iowa fans- but admire their coaches and team results.

However what a joke the NCAA is picking on Iowa-, its like littering for them. When LSU and Mississippi are committing mass murder in comparison. The NCAA leaves the SEC and blue bloods alone for the most part.
Admiring 8 win seasons and not titles? Lame

Anyway...the NCAA is not the joke in this instance. iowa is the joke. They ratted on themselves. Those other schools are smart enough to know that the NCAA has no power if you don't tell them anything.
 
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Anon1752115983

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In all honesty if the NCAA wants to stop being a laughing stock then they have a lot more than Iowa to worry about with tampering. I’m quite sure almost every from the major conferences tamper. The NCAA needs to stop picking and choosing when to enforce rules or how to enforce rules…

I think Tampering should be punished, but only if it’s enforced evenly with all teams.
It is enforced evenly. One word: evidence. The enforcement staff has to establish actual evidence that tampering occurred. Once proof is established, the case can be taken to the Infraction Committee to mete out penalties.

This type of case has nothing to do with Michigan or any other situation that doesn't involve players playing while ineligible. Vacation ONLY occurs when a student-athlete competes while ineligible. There was no ineligible participation in the Michigan case (contrast it with Reggie Bush/USC and Notre Dame's academic fraud case in which players participated after some slut did their homework). Once Iowa committed a rules violation in the recruitment of McNamara, the violation rendered him ineligible to play at Iowa (and only at Iowa). Therefore, any games he played in after being rendered ineligible and before his eligibility was restored have to be vacated.

Vacation is not an empty penalty. I worked for many years in college athletics. Coaches have huge egos. You take away wins based on violations they committed and they go crazy. Many vacation cases are appealed. If vacation was an empty penalty, there wouldn't be appeals.