Former Alabama DL coach Bo Davis

Former Alabama defensive line coach Bo Davis must serve a 2-year show cause order, the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee announced Thursday.

A Committee on Infractions panel found the former Crimson Tide assistant coach violated "ethical conduct rules" when he provided "false or misleading information about impermissible recruiting contacts."

Details emerged on May 1, 2016, four days after Davis' resignation, that he was being investigated by the NCAA for potential impermissible contact with recruits. He reportedly visited out-of-state recruits during a dead period in the recruiting cycle.

The recruits in question, however, did not end up signing letters of intent with Alabama.

Davis received a 2-year show-cause order from April 14, 2017 through April 13, 2019 for the violations. During that period, any NCAA member school employing the former coach in an athletics role, including his current school, must restrict him from all off-campus recruiting activities.

In his appeal, Davis argued that the show-cause order should have begun on the date of his resignation from the university rather than the date of the infractions panel announcement, according to a release from the NCAA. But the appellate committee noted neither NCAA rules nor past cases consider timing other than the announcement of penalties as the start date.

Davis is currently serving as the defensive line coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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