[Opinion] Cal football team placed under 1-year probation after NCAA rules infractions

Cal football team placed under 1-year probation after NCAA rules infractions

This past Friday, the NCAA and UC Berkeley resolved a case of recruiting infractions by the Cal football program. As a result of this misconduct, Cal will be under NCAA probation from May 2, 2025 to May 1, 2026 and…

Cal Athletics inexplicably self-reports minor NCAA violations, earns one year probation for football

Credit: Rob Hwang(Note: The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Write for California staff)At this point, the NCAA is a dinosaur with regard to enforcing the wild west of college athletics. Unless you do something truly egregious, like pull a Connor Stallions, it is very difficult to get hit with NCAA violations. You’d have to be maliciously compliant and cooperate with th…