Clemson Notes: Baseball coach Jack Leggett signs new deal
CLEMSON -- Clemson baseball coach Jack Leggett officially has a new contract, representing a two-year extension to his previous agreement.
Clemson released details of the new deal Friday, a contract that will keep Leggett at Clemson through the 2016 season. Leggett will receive $400,000 in total compensation per year.
The Tigers baseball team has advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals in two of the last three years. The Tigers were eliminated by Connecticut in the Clemson Regional in June.
"I'm very excited being here at Clemson," Leggett said in a statement. "This is where my heart lies. We have had many great moments, but we have some unfinished business that we're striving for. Many great players and coaches have come through and I want to continue building upon the strong program here at Clemson. I can't wait to get to work on the 2012 season."
In 18 years at Clemson, Leggett owns an 817-376-1 record and has led Clemson to 17 NCAA appearances and to the College World Series six times.
The Post and Courier reported last month that Leggett and Clemson had agreed in principle to a new contract.
Clemson reports violations
The Clemson athletic department released a list of secondary NCAA violations, something it does twice a year. The document released Friday contained 12 self-reported violations, covering a time period from February through July.
Secondary violations are typically not serious in nature nor do they usually carry severe penalties. Secondary violations are separated into two categories: Level I violations are reported directly to the NCAA and are deemed more serious than Level II violations, which are reported to the ACC.
Clemson's Level I violations included a coach allowing a prospective student-athlete to job shadow him for a day in February. Clemson's compliance services responded by providing the coach with a "rules education" and did not seek reinstatement of the student since Clemson did not recruit him.
Another Level I violation required a prospective student-athlete to repay the cost of an impermissible benefit ($333) to a local charity.
A Level II violation included two student-athletes who spent one night with a former teammate at a hotel suite in Miami. The two sudent athletes were required to donate the cost of the impermissible benefit to a local charity.
Some violations were borderline humorous.
Clemson found during a routine audit that the weighted average off-campus housing allowance was miscalculated by $1. Student-athletes were declared ineligible, reinstated upon repayments ranging from $1 to $2.
