Alabama’s cooperation in the NCAA investigation into former baseball coach Brad Bohannon contributed to its “mitigated” Level I punishments, which included a three-year probation and a $5,000 fine. Bohannon, meanwhile, was issued “aggravated” charges, the harshest being a 15-year show-cause penalty.

Details of the Tide’s negotiated punishments were released on Thursday along with the rest of the NCAA’s inquiry into Bohannon’s contact with a bettor ahead of Alabama’s April 28, 2023 game against LSU.

In addition to retraining EPIC Global Solutions for a “comprehensive” gambling education program, Alabama will notably need to:

• File an annual compliance report with the NCAA Committees on Infractions annually by Dec. 15 through 2026.
• Provide, in writing, information about UA’s violations to prospective prospects before a paid official visit or prior to the player signing their National Letter of Intent.
• Publicize “specific and understandable information” of UA’s violations on the Tide baseball website. (Schools usually add a link to the bottom of each page.)

The full report can be found here.

UA performed “corrective actions” in the aftermath of Bohannon’s departure, such as providing training on gambling to all student-athletes and athletics department members in August 2023. Alabama also partnered with ProhiBET, which works with the SEC and other conferences, to ensure compliance among players, coaches and staff.

Those factors, as well as Alabama’s history of self-reporting lower-level violations, led to the Tide avoiding a postseason ban and further recruiting regulations. Rob Vaughn, hired as head coach from Maryland one month after the scandal broke, will start his first season on Feb. 16 against Manhattan College.

“In reaching a mitigated classification, the institution and enforcement staff agreed that significant weight should be given to the mitigated factors in Bylaws 19.12.4.1-(b) and 19.12.4.1-(g), because the institution accepted responsibility for the violations and expended substantial resources to work proactively and quickly with the enforcement staff to identify the scope of the violations,” the statement read.

On May 3, two days after online monitoring company U.S. Integrity flagged wagers made by Eugene Bert Neff, — who was in contact with Bohannon about the availability of an Alabama starting pitcher — the University contacted the NCAA and reported a possible violation. Alabama began the process of firing Bohannon as it conducted interviews.

Bohannon, 48, failed to turn over information to investigators and appear for an interview, another NCAA infraction. He submitted his letter of resignation on May 17, roughly two weeks after the school announced his dismissal.

Not only was Bohannon deemed uncooperative, but he did not participate at all in the investigation and has yet to comment publicly since the scandal broke.

Bohannon’s lawyers at the Birmingham-based firm Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff and Brandt did immediately not respond to AL.com’s request for comment on Thursday.

Nick Alvarez is a reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @nick_a_alvarez or email him at [email protected].