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The NCAA Committee on Infractions is expected to wrap up its findings soon in the case of the Ducks' use of recruiting services during former coach Chip Kelly's tenure.

(Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian)

The NCAA Committee on Infractions is soon expected to release its report -- and hand down penalties -- in the

case involving the Ducks' use of recruiting services. In a failed attempt at summary disposition with the NCAA last year, UO officials agreed that

was "major" in nature and proposed a two-year probation and loss of one scholarship for each of the next three seasons, among other smaller sanctions.

The infractions committee released its findings Friday in a case involving Mississippi State. Bulldogs officials reportedly appeared before the committee on April 19 -- the same day UO officials appeared before the committee.

Britton Banowsky, chairman of the Committee on Infractions, told reporters that penalties weren't more severe in part because of Mississippi State's cooperation in the case. The committee essentially accepted the school's self-imposed penalties.

"The university did a great job once they became aware of (the violations), of taking necessary action once they found the scope and severity of the problem and then owning up to it when they got to the hearing," Banowsky said. "... We wanted to go out of our way to let folks know we were very appreciative of the way the university responded. That's how it should be."

A list of major NCAA violations at football bowl subdivision programs since 2008:

2013

MISSISSIPPI STATE

Offenses:

Impermissible benefits, including cash and a car, provided to a football recruit by a booster.

Penalties:

Two years of probation, loss of four total scholarships, reduction in recruiting visits and a "show-cause" order on former assistant coach Angelo Mirando.

2012

TENNESSEE

Offenses:

An assistant football coach paid for running back recruit Lache Seastrunk to make an unofficial visit to the Knoxville campus.

Penalties:

A two-year extension of probation period imposed in an August 2011 report, through Aug. 23, 2015; recruiting limitations; and a three-year show-cause order for former assistant coach Willie Mack Garza, who in 2009 repaid travel expenses to Texas-based talent scout Willie Lyles, a mentor to Seastrunk.

CENTRAL FLORIDA

Offenses:

Violations involving outside third parties with recruits and student-athletes, particularly in football and men's basketball; impermissible recruiting inducement (attempted arrangement for employment); unethical conduct; failure to monitor and lack of institutional control.

Penalties:

Five years of probation; a postseason ban in men's basketball and football; show-cause orders for athletic department personnel; scholarship reductions; recruiting restrictions; a vacation of men's basketball records and a $50,000 fine.

Note:

In April 2013, the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee reversed the football program's postseason ban.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Offenses:

The violations in this case were centered on two separate, unrelated sets of circumstances: student-athletes living in a local hotel at what proved to be a discounted rate; and the impermissible involvement of two representatives of the school's athletics interests in football and men's basketball recruiting and the provision of extra benefits by the two athletics representatives.

Penalties:

Three years of probation; loss of six football scholarships; track coach suspended for one event.

NORTH CAROLINA

Offenses:

Academic fraud; impermissible benefits; impermissible participation; unethical conduct; failure to monitor; preferential treatment; failure to cooperate and failure to report outside income.

Penalties:

Three years of probation; vacation of all records of student-athletes who competed while ineligible as well as former head coach Butch Davis' record (the institution had self-imposed vacation of all victories in football during the 2008 and 2009 seasons); reduction of grants-in-aid by a total of 15 for a three-year period; one-year postseason ban in football; the institution self-imposed a financial penalty of $50,000.

2011

OHIO STATE

Offenses:

"Tattoo-gate" involved impermissible preferential treatment for five football players, including star quarterback Terrelle Pryor; other violations included payment for work not performed; impermissible extra benefits; unethical conduct and failure to monitor.

Penalties:

Postseason football ban for the 2012 season; three years of probation; loss of nine total scholarships; vacation of records for the 2010 season; show-cause order placed on former head coach Jim Tressel.

CINCINNATI

Offenses:

Impermissible recruiting telephone calls in the football and women's basketball programs.

Penalties:

Case was resolved through the summary disposition process; penalties included a two-year probation and a show-cause order for a former assistant women's basketball coach.

BOISE STATE

Offenses:

Impermissible lodging, transportation and practice sessions; impermissible participation, cash payments to a prospective student-athlete and unethical conduct involving a former assistant track and field coach and the former women's tennis head coach; also failure to monitor on behalf of the institution.

Penalties:

Three years of probation; loss of nine total football scholarships; one-year postseason ban for the women's tennis team.

LSU

Offenses:

Impermissible transportation and lodging and excessive phone calls by members of the athletic department to a recruit. Former football assistant coach D.J. McCarthy was cited for unethical conduct for his role in the violations and his subsequent obstruction of the investigation.

Penalties:

One year of probation; reduction in official visits for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years; show-cause order for McCarthy.

GEORGIA TECH

Offenses:

Impermissible clothing provided to two football players, plus basketball violations involving a youth basketball tournament held on campus.

Penalties:

Four years of probation; financial penalty of $100,000; a limit to 10 in the number of official visits for men's basketball for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years; vacation of three football games from 2009, including the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game victory.

Note:

The penalties were more severe because "Georgia Tech failed to cooperate" with the NCAA investigation, the Committee on Infractions wrote in its public report. "This case was very troubling to the committee in a number of respects ... (and) provides a cautionary tale of conduct that member institutions should avoid while under investigation for violations of NCAA rules."

WEST VIRGINIA

Offenses:

Noncoaching staff members performing activities reserved for member of the coaching staff, notably monitored and/or conducted athletically related activities such as skill development and seven-on-seven drills during the summer and winter.

Penalties:

The case was resolved through summary disposition. Penalties included two years of probation; loss of three total scholarships; elimination of two noncoaching positions in football; reduction in recruiting visits.

ARKANSAS STATE

Offenses:

Thirty one student-athletes competed in football and basketball while ineligible from the 2005-06 academic year through the fall semester of 2008-09.

Penalties:

Vacation of 10 football victories from 2005 and 2006; vacation of 27 basketball victories and eight more in other sports; a two-year probation and a fine of $43,500.

TEXAS TECH

Offenses:

Impermissible text messages (926 in all) sent to recruits by members of the men's golf, football and softball staffs.

Penalties:

Case processed through the summary disposition process: two years of probation, plus public censure (standard in all cases).

2010

MICHIGAN

Offenses:

Exceeding coaching staff limitations, playing and practice season violations, unethical conduct and failure to monitor under then-coach Rich Rodriguez.

Penalties:

Three years of probation; reduction of countable related activity time by 130 hours.

USC

Offenses:

Violation of NCAA bylaws governing amateurism related to star running back Reggie Bush; failure to report knowledge of violations; unethical conduct; impermissible benefits; violations of coaching staff limitations; impermissible recruiting contacts by a booster; impermissible inducements and extra benefits; and lack of institutional control.

Penalties:

Vacation of all victories in which Bush participated, including the 2005 BCS championship game; four years of probation; two-year postseason ban in football in 2010 and 2011; loss of 30 total football scholarships over a three-year period; a fine of $206,020; vacation of all records in which an ineligible men's basketball student-athlete, O.J. Mayo, competed.

Note:

These are viewed as stiffest penalties handed to any athletic department since the NCAA hit SMU football with the dreaded "death penalty" in 1986, shutting the program down for two years.

CENTRAL FLORIDA

Offenses:

Impermissible telephone calls and text messages.

Penalties: Two years of probation.

2009

ALABAMA

Offenses:

Impermissible benefits obtained by seven football players (and 15 athletes in other sports) through misuse of the institution's textbook distribution program.

Penalties:

Three years of probation; vacation of records in which ineligible athletes participated; a fine of $43,900.

FLORIDA STATE

Offenses:

Academic fraud involving three university tutors to numerous student-athletes. There were also associated violations relating to impermissible benefits and a failure to monitor by the institution.

Penalties:

Four years of probation; loss of six total football scholarships, plus loss of scholarships in nine other sports; vacation of records involving 61 eligible student-athletes; show-cause orders for the tutors and academic advisers.

2008

NEW MEXICO

Offenses:

Impermissible inducements, extra benefits and unethical conduct in the football program involving two football assistant coaches who, in 2004, helped three recruits obtain fraudulent academic credits through correspondence courses they never completed at Fresno Pacific University.

Penalties:

Three years of probation; loss of five scholarships; show-cause orders for the assistant coaches.

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL

Offenses:

Ineligible participation involving 45 athletes; financial aid violations; lack of institutional control.

Penalties:

Four years of probation; vacation of all wins in which the athletes participated.

-- Adam Jude