IN BRIEF : No Recruit Violations: Wake Forest

Wake Forest athletic officials have notified the NCAA that they have found no evidence of recruiting violations in its men’s basketball program and that Bob Staak’s resignation as head coach doesn’t imply any wrongdoing.

The university began its inquiry Feb. 3 after R. Daniel Beebe, NCAA director of enforcement, questioned whether a Wake Forest supporter improperly assisted in the recruitment of a student-athlete. Beebe directed his questions in a letter to Gene Hooks, Wake Forest athletic director.

University counsel J. Reid Morgan, who interviewed 10 people during the inquiry, said the incident involved a student and his family who shared a relationship with an attorney and Staak, who resigned his job March 29. Beginning in high school, the student and his parents sought advice from the attorney about the obligations of an athletic scholarship recipient and other NCAA regulations, Morgan said. The report to Beebe states that the student, his family, the attorney and Staak “have assured us that no contacts between the attorney and any of the student’s family were made for the purposes of recruiting the student to Wake Forest.”