NCAA Announces Iowa, Kirk Ferentz Committed Tampering Violations

The Iowa Hawkeyes football program has been slapped with a series of punishments after an NCAA investigation found that multiple tampering violations occurred at the program, with head coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant Jon Budmayr at the center of the controversy.

On Tuesday, the NCAA announced that Ferentz and Budmayr had "impermissible contacts" with a student who was enrolled at another school and not yet in the portal. Over the course of the investigation, Ferentz agreed that he violated his responsibilities as a head coach through his awareness and involvement in the violations.

"Tampering violations occurred in the Iowa football program when current football head coach Kirk Ferentz and assistant coach Jon Budmayr had impermissible contacts with a student-athlete who was enrolled at another NCAA school at the time and who had not yet entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, according to a decision released by a Division I Committee on Infractions hearing panel. Budmayr also communicated with the student-athlete's parent before the student-athlete entered the Transfer Portal. Ferentz previously agreed that he also violated head coach responsibility rules due to his awareness of and personal involvement in the violations," the NCAA stated.