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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2588178, member: 1526"] The problem with rape and sexual assault is that those are criminal offenses prosecuted and punishable by the government. The issue relating to NCAA eligibility is whether or not a player complies with all the NCAA eligibility rules. I don't believe there is any NCAA rule which would automatically declare a player ineligible for being suspected of committing rape. Those cases have to go through the proper administrative channels within the student disciplinary code of each respective school, and also through the criminal justice system. The NCAA doesn't regulate any of that. The only way a student guilty of raping another student gets declared ineligible to play is within the schools' own policy rules. They can be suspended or expelled from school, which would effectively end their eligibility to play sports, but that's an action that has to be voluntarily undertaken by the schools, through their own disciplinary process. Obviously if they get convicted criminally they're going to jail, which solves the whole issue of eligibility for good. The NCAA can't punish schools or enforce the schools' own student codes of conduct when it comes to student disciplinary matters. [/QUOTE]