Former Air Force Academy assistant football coach Bill Sheridan was given a three-year show-cause penalty by the NCAA on Friday for impermissible recruiting during the COVID-19 dead period in 2020. The school was administered sanctions last September, but escaped major penalties due to its proactive handling of the case.
In January 2022, head coach Troy Calhoun fired five assistant coaches who were involved in the violations as the school verified its involvement in the impermissible recruiting visits to the Academy. Sheridan, who also was charged with unethical conduct for providing “false or misleading information during the investigation and encouraged prospects to do the same,” was the only coach who contested the allegations against him.
With the Committee on Infractions panel having ruled against Sheridan, he faces a three-year period in which “any NCAA member school employing him must restrict him
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