High school recruits with past incidents of serious misconduct are now barred from the SEC.
The conference's Executive Committee overwhelmingly supported and passed a proposal to expand its serious misconduct policy, along with 14 other legislative proposals, during its Spring Meetings in Destin on Friday.
The league's landmark policy, as expanded, now prohibits prospective athletes as well as transfers who've been convicted, pleaded guilty or no contest to a felony involving sexual assault, domestic violence or other forms of sexual violence or faced discipline at previous colleges for such interpersonal violence to compete in athletics at a conference school and includes the expectation of "due diligence" into reviewing a prospective athlete's background.