IU’s self-report to NCAA on violations involving Jurkin, Mosquera-Perea

By Nathan Brown | Nathan Brown, IDS men's basketball beat writer

Posted at 12:34 am on November 7, 2012 | | | Comment (1)

Here is the link to the file that the IU athletic department turned in to the NCAA to self-report the secondary violations involving freshmen forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea and center Peter Jurkin: IU’s Self-Report to the NCAA.

IU first made the report to the NCAA April 25, 2011 after word of the violations first came to the surface April 13 of the same year.

The violations involve Mark Adams, an IU alum who graduated in 1980 and from 1986-1992, donated a total of $185 to the IU Varsity Club in the form of seven payments from his then-wife who bought several IU alumna stickers for her car.

Adams has not made any donations to IU since 1992, and years later, he developed the nonprofit organization A-HOPE which, according to the nonprofit’s website, was created: “to provide deserving student athletes a seamless process of obtaining a student visa, transportation to the United States, making sure they are acclimated to their new environment and providing them with an opportunity to receive an outstanding education.”

Adams reached out to Mosquera-Perea, a native of Columbia, and Jurkin, a native of Sudan, through this program and helped bring them to the U.S. where they were recruited by and eventually signed with the IU basketball program. During the process of their recruitment to IU, Adams provided both players with thousands of dollars for food, travel expenses, clothes, electronics, and other items, and he also became Mosquera-Perea’s legal guardian.

IU self-reported these secondary violations, and the NCAA came out with the decision just a few days ago that both players would only have to pay back a small portion of the money they received from Adams – $250 for Jurkin, who received $6,000, and $1,588.69 for Mosquera-Perea, who received $8,000 from Adams. Normally, players would have to pay back the entirety of the donations they received, but it appears that the NCAA realized the truly honest mistake that was made by the players and Adams.

But the game suspensions, on the other hand, don’t appear to reflect an “honest mistake.” As of right now, both players have to sit out the first nine games of this season, including games in the Legends Classic against Georgetown and either Georgia or UCLA as well as the Big Ten/ACC Challenge game Nov. 27 in Assembly Hall against North Carolina. IU said they will appeal these suspensions.

Nathan Brown is a junior majoring in journalism. A Noblesville, Ind. native, he is currently one of the men's basketball beat writers for the Indiana Daily Student. You can follow him on Twitter at @nathan_brown10.

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