The Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) athletics department has been placed under probation until September 10, 2026, following a scandal involving recruitment violations in its football program.
The sanctions stem from actions by former assistant football coach Robert Adan who manipulated the applications of 16 out-of-state players by inputting false addresses and graduation dates. This misleading information led the players to believe they would qualify for in-state tuition fees as student-athletes at the college.
The story was first reported by The Channels, SBCC’s student news site, which prompted immediate administrative action leading to Adan’s placement on administrative leave, followed by his resignation.
While the probation extends to the entire athletics department, the repercussions will be most profoundly felt within the football program, which now faces a bar from postseason play extending to the conclusion of the probation period. Additionally, the recruitment efforts of the football staff will be restricted geographically to the local community college districts of Santa Barbara, Allan Hancock, and Ventura County.
The violation of California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) bylaws 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 was officially confirmed after a thorough investigation, resulting in the immediate ineligibility of the implicated players. However, following appeals to the 3C2A, 14 of the 16 students have been reinstated and have participated in this season’s games. The remaining two chose to withdraw from the college.
In response to the infractions and as part of its corrective measures, SBCC has devised an Athletic Department Oversight Plan aimed at closely monitoring and enhancing the integrity of the recruitment process. This plan will provide SBCC and its athletic department with robust tools to ensure transparency and compliance in the engagement of future and potential student-athletes.
The full article is available at thechannels.org.
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Kudos to the Channels and Athletic Director for exposing this issue. Unfortunately there are athletic departments across the country where these things happen, not all the time and in every department, but enough where there needs to be more oversight. (usually it’s in football or basketball)
It sounds like it was mainly the assistant coach but others must have known, especially the head coach. Athletes talk, and a good coach should be aware of what’s going on with the team.
Wow, that’s fantastic. SBCC shouldn’t have a football team even. Recruiting out of towners and falsifying their documentation to make them get a free ride? At a CC? And at the expense of locals? New low.
BASIC – everything you don’t like is always “at the expense of locals.” Explain and trace exactly how in state tuition is paid for by locals. And no, “taxes” is not a sufficient answer.
I’d easily support CC if it’s was well-run and emphasized what’s most important – educating local kids coming out of local high schools as a step towards their careers. But they’re not doing that dude. They’ve lost their mission. They’ve gotten distracted with athletics spending and bringing in out of towners, very similar to UCSB. They see dollar sign$.
As a longtime multigenerational local Santa Barbaran, I don’t agree with that.
Money doesn’t grow on trees bud.
SBCC has one of the higher rates of high school students attending SBCC – over half of them stay and take classes here. Most other California high schools don’t get close to that.
This issue with the assistant football coach is so unfortunate for the students who depended on their coach for direction. The head coach needs to take responsibility too since he should know what’s going on. It’s sad because this harms all the rest of the students on the team.
So you can’t answer the question, got it.
Shut up and vote.
Or, vote and shut up.
Hey YOULIE – Biden isn’t running for president. Even if he were and your comment was in any way relevant, show us where he says Americans are “garbage.”
You might have Alex confused the people Trump and his guy call “garbage.”
How many Lie Pies are you making? You should be pretty stocked up by now.
This Doulie dude is so desperate for attention.
He sure does love to lie and brag about his pies. I wonder if he and COAST will do the honorable thing and go silent next week after Harris wins?
The fact is that Biden IS the President . Last night he called the Americans who won’t vote for Harris “garbage. No matter your political leanings, this is a truly atrocious statement from the man who is supposed to be governing for all the citizens of the US.
LOL, I’m so sure that you post the same horrified reaction every time Trump calls Democrats and Harris supporters vile, evil, wicked, a threat from within, scum, traitors, etc., etc..
So real quick, point me to that time you posted your concern about that rhetoric.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Trump said “they’re scum, they’re scum, they’re absolute garbage”. He and other right wingers are always projecting.
HAMMONDS – read the news sometime if you’re so concerned about candidates, not sitting presidents, calling his opponents names.
Biden said “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters… his… his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been”
Biden is 100% right. Own being what you are.
P.S. There’s apparently a dispute as whether Biden meant “supporters” or “supporter’s …. demonization”. Regardless of what he meant, the fact is that both are true.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/what-we-know-about-the-claim-biden-called-trump-s-supporters-garbage/ar-AA1teaxK
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1851808779295494148
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1851765453145739486
Nope, sorry, because my political leanings are not towards the fascism, grift, and sociopathy of the right wing, I totally disagree.
https://x.com/AlekaKalena/status/1851809311103881523
Here is what actual garbage is planning on doing and what actual garbage is voting for.
https://x.com/DrRobDavidson/status/1851783015795490837
Here’s the garbage that garbage supports: https://x.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1851628485728420272
A reminder for you, HH: https://x.com/JMeanypants/status/1851688000393974134
SAC: The right wingers claim that Biden called Trump’s supporters garbage. I’m pretty sure Alex isn’t a Trump supporter, so doulie (who says that a hardworking American civil servant like Salud Carbajal doesn’t put the interests of Americans first because he was born in Mexico, and then when called out on such outrageous bigotry responds with documentation that Salud was born in Mexico, so uncomprehending he is of his own bigotry) is utterly wrong (no surprise) that Biden called people like Alex garbage. But Biden didn’t actually call Trump’s supporters garbage, he called “his supporter’s demonization of Latinos” garbage, referring to Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a floating garbage dump. As always, this is a case of the extreme hypocrisy of the right wing, amplified by the media.
DALFORF – yeah, I saw that in the news after I made my comment. Still, even if that’s what Biden called them, it’s absolutely true. What else do you call people who think support racism, sexism, and homophobia and believe that women shouldn’t have the right to choose, and that support the mass deportation (and consequently splitting of children from their parents) of immigrants, legal or not?
I know what I call people like that. Biden was nicer about it than I’d be.
You can’t even get your fascist talking points right. He didn’t say *Alex* is garbage.
Yep, again at the expense of District owners of taxable properties. Lots of housing could be made available locally if SBCC would serve this community rather than the world; and locals get instruction they want and need. I’ll shut up and go vote NO
BASIC – it’s clear you never played sports, especially not in college, so your comment is unsurprising, as are all of them.
It’s not just the football team that’s affected now. ALL SBCC sports teams are on probation, meaning they cannot go to playoffs for the next couple years and can only recruit from the local area.
Again, it’s clear that many here don’t value post-high school athletics as an important thing, but these kids have worked hard year round to make the teams and succeed on them. Everyone being punished for the deeds of one lame coach is really unfortunate for all of them.
We are not punishing everyone for the “deeds of one lame coach.” The conspiracy involves all of the SBCC administration and athletic programs. It is a theft of local resources by fraud. This is a moral failure on the part of SBCC which demonstrates, once again, that the people running this institution are too often in the thrall of jocks (remember the use of Measure V money to build a press box at the stadium instead of remedying the alleged leaking roofs and asbestos tainted classroooms!). Vote no on Measure S and allow us to restructure SBCC into a local community asset working to help local community members gain skills and education to succeed.
RHS – I didn’t say YOU are punishing them. And yes, it IS the actions of one lame coach. You should read about this more.
“Jocks” says it all.
And RHS, how is it “theft of local resources” if they’re paying a discounted (in state vs out of state) tuition? It’s a theft from SBCC. Just because some of your taxes go to SBCC (and UCSB and all other educational institutes), doesn’t mean they’re stealing from you. Your taxes aren’t going up to pay for 16 kids who paid in state tuition because their coach manipulated the system.
This whole, “I don’t like something, therefore they’re taking my tax dollars” trope is exhausting.
It’s shafting local resources and local kids’ education. Very very simple.
Nope.
It is theft because the cost of providing an education is more than the local students pay. This is subsidized, appropriately, by local and state taxpayers on behalf of local residents. When an out of state student comes in s/he gets the benefit of the subsidy not meant for them. That is theft.
And they may (gasp!) ride bicycles!
RHS – local students pay 0. They are subsidized. In state tuition is over $1000 a semester. These athletes STILL PAID TUITION.
Again, the “my taxes might in some indirect way support something I don’t like, therefore it’s theft of my money” thing is tired, old, and just not true.
None of what you stated makes any sense whatsoever if you’re trying to argue for what we know is your Pro-P side.
They do pay zero. Yes, very subsidized. The CC ‘team members’ aren’t supposed to be violating rules. You still think money grows on trees. I get it.
BASIC – you’re dead wrong, again as always. Im state tuition is not 0. Only local residents in the are get the zero tuition that yeah, we subsidize.
This has nothing to do with Measure P and everything to do with you being completely unaware (or just lying again) about what you’re talking about.
Just wrong.
Shut up and vote. And if you already voted…shut up. You’re not changing anyone’s
mind.
So if you don’t think it’s theft then tell us why the Program got a big red flag thrown at them instantly when the story came out.
Exhausting? You could get out of your chair and take a walk? For you arguing online all day everyday IS exhausting. Humans aren’t made for that.
BASIC – when you stop matching me comment for comment here, we can talk about who needs to take a break.
I have always questioned SBCC’s practices. A relative of mine was on the football team, and was given free meals at the cafeteria, and was forced to eat 6 meals a day (with the coaches checking up on him) to gain weight. This is not healthy! He is still overweight.
If only 4 of 70 football players are from within the SBCC District, (Gaviota to Ventura line) why are only District property owners expected to pay for non-District students to attend WHEN our in-DISTRICT students need SBCC to focus on them? Only the Soccer Team has a majority of locals.
2023-24 SBCC Men’s Soccer Roster
https://www.sbccvaqueros.com/sports/msoc/2023-24/roster
SBWOMAN – sigh…… just come out and say you oppose anyone else getting an education at SBCC.
Look folks, SBCC, like all other Jr Colleges, does not give athletic scholarships, so no…. you are not somehow paying for out of district students to attend here any more than in district. They still must pay tuition. What the football team did, unfortunately, is try to make up for that lack of scholarship ability to attract talent from out of state my flubbing the applications so the student athletes would only have to pay in-state tuition as opposed to out of state which is costs them more. They stole from the school, not from you.
Great article in the Independent about it: https://www.independent.com/2024/10/29/sbcc-athletics-on-probation-until-2026-following-football-recruitment-violations/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Indy+Today%3A+Santa+Barbara+Sheriff+Tangled+in+Mental-Health+App+Imbroglio&utm_campaign=Indy+Today%2C+Tuesday+10%2F30&vgo_ee=3Xlddm9aYPLX5GCFVPzw4%2Fj%2Fx3mAngC9%2BQocbvTZLd12JtLB%3A8gc%2BFUpPChp1%2FeD11N1dYZj3lQO0%2Bxkl
It’s really sad what this coach did to these young men and now the entire athletic department and all other sports are paying for it.
My feelings go out to all those athletes who have worked so hard to get here and now have their seasons affected.
Those athletes you are worried about participated in an illegal and criminal scheme to claim lower tuition. I do not feel sorry for them, not like they were stealing because they had no food.
ANON – and yet another one who hasn’t read anything about this. Come on folks, why so lazy?
I’m talking about the athletes in the OTHER sports that are also being affected by this. They had nothing to do with this and now they are banned from participating in playoffs in their respective seasons regardless how well their team does. Baseball, in particular, is a frequent contender in their post season and now are suffering due to the actions of one football coach.
The athlete hate here is just silly. Why crap on kids who are working so hard at something? Since when have we become a community that belittles and diminishes the hard work of young people? Do you folks have any clue at all how hard student athletes work? SMH.
“Those athletes you are worried about participated in an illegal and criminal scheme to claim lower tuition.”
Different athletes.
This sort of extraordinary dishonesty (or, per Hanlon’s Razor, incompetence) from Anonymous is a large part of why we have the problems we do.
We really need to rope in the CC leadership. Send a message. They’re not doing right by the local kids. Simple as that. Auto yes vote on this giant money gift for them to continue their poor ways is just a poor option.
BASIC – Wrong article. This has nothing to do with Measure P.
Figure it out for once.
If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying
Your motto.