Rutgers University on Friday will discover its fate following the NCAA's two-year probe into the football program, NJ Advance Media has learned.

The NCAA is expected to issue a final report early Friday afternoon, and then announce its ruling in a 1 p.m. teleconference with the media.

In December 2016, the NCAA issued Rutgers with a Notice of Allegations that included charges of widespread drug use by players that was covered up, as well as improprieties with the football program's mostly female student-ambassador recruiting program, and former head coach Kyle Flood's violation of the university's compliance policy for contacting faculty and attempting to change a player's grade.

Rutgers was charged with a "failure to monitor'' violation after the NCAA alleged athletics officials failed to provide proper oversight of its football program regarding the recruiting ambassador program and the drug-testing program.

In April 2017, Rutgers issued a formal response that agreed with the "vast majority of the allegations as they (were) charged'' and recommended a series of self-imposed sanctions that included:

A one-year period of probation to begin after the NCAA's final ruling;

A $5,000 fine payable to the NCAA

A reduction in the number of permissible, off-campus recruiting days by a total of 10: five days in the fall evaluation period and five days in the spring evaluation period during the 2017-18 academic year;

A limitation of 36 official visits (for high school seniors and transfer students) in football during the 2017-18 academic year, a reduction by four from the average number of visits used during the four most recent academic years and 26 fewer than permitted under NCAA legislation;

A probation on initiating telephone calls, contact via social media, and written correspondence with prospective student-athletes for a one-week period during the 2017-18 academic year.

It is unknown whether the committee will see those penalties as harsh enough or decide to include additional sanctions such as vacated wins, scholarship reductions, fines, suspensions and/or a bowl ban.

Current Rutgers officials, including university President Robert Barchi, Athletics Director Pat Hobbs and football coach Chris Ash, and former athletics employees, including Flood and director of sports medicine Dr. Robert Monaco, asked for leniency at a hearing with the the NCAA Committee on Infractions in July.

Flood and Monaco were each charged with a show-cause order, which means they will have to clear significant hurdles in order to work in college athletics if the NCAA Committee on Infractions rules unfavorably in their respective cases.

Flood was fired following the 2015 season, months after he was suspended for three games by the university for academic improprieties, and currently serves as an assistant offensive line coach for the Atlanta Falcons.

Rutgers had been put on notice multiple times for the football recruiting-ambassadors' program potentially being contrary to the governing body's legislation during an 11-year period starting in 2004 and the NCAA began a formal inquiry into the university's athletics program in the spring of 2015.

The Rutgers case was given a Level II designation by the NCAA. While still considered "major,'' Level II violations are one step below the most egregious on the NCAA's four-level scale.

The last time the NCAA punished Rutgers was in June 2003, when the university self-imposed penalties of two years' probation and the loss of 20 total scholarships in 10 sports for violating eligibility and financial aid rules.

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