HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- New allegations have surfaced in a five-year ongoing lawsuit against Marshall University and its former head football Coach Bobby Pruett.

The lawsuit stems from the MU athletics program being placed on probation for violating NCAA rules in the late 1990s. Depositions and other court documents have become public, indicating that former MU Compliance Director David Ridpath feels his reputation was harmed during the scandal.

The lawsuit also relates to Sam Goines who came to Marshall as a prop player in 1997. Because of his grades, Goines had to sit out a year before becoming eligible. A decade later, Goines is no longer in the middle of the Herd defense, but in the middle of the lawsuit involving Pruett.

After Marshall was placed on probation by the NCAA, the university transferred Ridpath from the compliance office to another department. In the lawsuit, Ridpath claims his career was "destroyed" because the university transferred him and labeled it "corrective action" due to the NCAA violations. The same legal document cites that Marshall's football program relied heavily on these so-called prop players.

In Pruett's first four years, the Herd suited up 65 non-qualifiers. The legal document states, "In order to induce props to attend MU, Pruett promised to arrange for jobs to assist them with paying tuition."

MU football conditioning Coach Mike Jenkins went on the record by saying, "Coach Pruett assured the staff that certain football athletes would be eligible for the Fall 2000 season because they were guaranteed to get (A grades)." Now with the University of Memphis, Jenkins stood by his affidavit.

"I stand by my word," he said. "I'm not a liar."

Ridpath said he was unaware props were working off-campus jobs and being paid as much as $200 a day.

According to MU's compliance office, its staff has doubled since the NCAA violations and "employment tracking now is very thorough."

Calls to Ridpath, now at Ohio University, and to Pruett's current employer, the University of Virginia, were not returned Monday.

A telephone conference took place Monday morning in federal court, but no date was determined in a case that could go to trial.