Report: Army football recruited high school athletes with booze, women

Army football enticed recruits to commit to the team with a laundry-list of NCAA recruiting violations, reports Tom Roeder of the Colorado Springs Gazette. 

Documents obtained by the Gazette show that the team put recruits on a party bus with cheerleaders and a police escort, threw an alcohol-fueled party funded by booster money and gave leftover cash to recruits, and offered dinner dates with female cadets.

U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. self-reported the January and February violations to the NCAA and disciplined 20 cadets. The Academy also reprimanded two officers along with a pair of coaches.

"Although seen as a minor infraction by the NCAA, the U.S. Military Academy takes this very seriously and adjudicated this at the highest level of the disciplinary code," West Point said in a statement.

The football players involved are expected to play against the Air Force Academy on Nov. 1.