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Published January 13, 2015
The University of Oregon has been given three years of probation and scholarship reductions as penalties stemming from recruiting violations under former head coach Chip Kelly.
The NCAA issued its findings on Wednesday, saying the school improperly used a recruiting service provider, who became a representative of the university's athletics interests.
Kelly, who left the school in January to take the vacancy with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, was also cited for failure to monitor the football program. He was given an 18-month show-cause order, which would require any school wanting to hire him to appear before the NCAA.
The NCAA's investigation stemmed from Oregon's ties to a recruiting service run by Willie Lyles.
Wednesday's release said Lyles began assisting the university's football program in May 2008 and provided a prospect with lodging and training, as well as cash. He also engaged in impermissible calls and off-campus contacts with potential prospects, their families and high school coaches.
In addition to three years' probation through June 25, 2016, the Committee on Infractions also reduced scholarships by one over the next three years and limited the paid visits the program can give to prospects from 56 to 37 through 2014-15.
Kelly went 46-7 and led Oregon to a BCS bowl game in each of his four years with the school.
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