Ashton Kutcher Meets Iowa Recruits
Written by Bob Whalon, Sunday October 31 2010
The University of Iowa has admitted to the NCAA that the school allowed two basketball recruits to meet celebrity fans Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. The meeting occurred at the Iowa-Iowa State football game in September and such a meeting is a recruiting violation.
NCAA rules prohibit recruits from having contact with individuals considered to represent a university's athletic interests. Kutcher is from Iowa and briefly attended the University of Iowa. He is an ardent supporter of the Hawkeyes and occasionally attends football and basketball games in Iowa City.
The school's report to the NCAA said the recruits met former Hawkeye basketball players Reggie Evans and Dean Oliver after a pickup game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, then met Kutcher and Moore in a suite at Kinnick Stadium during the football game later that day.
"We anticipate the NCAA will determine each to be unintentional secondary violations," Iowa athletic director Gary Barta said.
The NCAA sent the university a letter four days later after two prospective recruits were quoted in published reports saying they met the married Hollywood stars. The recruits were not named but Josh Oglesby, a senior at Cedar Rapids Washington High School, and Marcus Paige, a junior at Linn-Mar High School have admitted that they met Kutcher and Moore. Paige even Tweeted a photo of himself and Kutcher at the game.
Iowa associate athletic director Fred Mims said in the school's official response to the NCAA that the violations were "inadvertent" and that steps have been taken to ensure it won't happen again. "The university is remorseful that these violations occurred, Mims wrote in a letter to the NCAA on Oct. 1.
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