NCAA sanctions Alabama St. for violations

[813Jag]

The NCAA Committee on Infractions on Wednesday hit Alabama State (http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20081210/NLETTER02/81210024&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL)University’s football program with five years of probation and a ban on postseason competition in 2009 in response to numerous major and secondary rules violations uncovered.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

More details:

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=42227


During the 1999-00 to 2004-05 academic years, university staff members arranged for fraudulent academic credits for eight football student-athletes when their original letter grades were changed without approval from the appropriate university administrators. Six of these student-athletes avoided ineligibility status due to the grade changes.

During the 1999-00 to 2002-03 academic years, numerous football, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball student-athletes were allowed to practice, compete and receive athletics scholarships while ineligible. The committee found the university failed to employ an adequate and consistent procedure for certifying and monitoring the eligibility of student-athletes, which resulted in the violations.

Additionally, seven football student-athletes and six prospective football student-athletes received impermissible inducements and extra benefits in the form of lodging, utilities or meals at no cost from the summer of 2000 to the end of the 2001-02 academic year.

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Due to competition by ineligible student-athletes, the university forfeited all regular-season football contests in the 2000 and 2001 seasons. The university also forfeited the 2001 Southwestern Athletic Conference championship. (Self-imposed by the institution and adopted as a vacation by the committee.)

The university shall vacate all football contests won by the university in 2000 and 2001, including the conference championship. The individual records of the ineligible student-athletes should be vacated as well. Further, the record of the former head coach will be reconfigured to reflect the vacated wins and recorded in all publications in which football records for the affected seasons are reported, including media guides, recruiting material, electronic media and institutional and NCAA archives. Any public reference to these vacated contests should be removed from the athletics department stationary, banners displayed in public areas and any other forum in which they may appear.

Bad stuff... :( The grade changes are the worst.

In a way, ASU is lucky to only have to vacate their '00-'01 wins and a ban from the postseason next year only. The scholly reductions aren't really a big deal since they're probbaly not at 63 anyway. It's not good, but hardly a "death penalty".

[DX Man]

They should have gotten the "death penalty."

[jstate83]

More details:

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=42227



Bad stuff... :( The grade changes are the worst.

In a way, ASU is lucky to only have to vacate their '00-'01 wins and a ban from the postseason next year only. The scholly reductions aren't really a big deal since they're probbaly not at 63 anyway. It's not good, but hardly a "death penalty".


They have the full 63 but the schollie reduction's started 3 year's when Alabam State imposed that 3 years ago so that part is over with.

[jstate83]

They should have gotten the "death penalty."

95% of this was ADMINISTRATION's fault.
Nobody in this conference can figure out why an athletic department would do their own sport's team's like this.

Coach's been comming and going after a year like a revolving door.
They get the hell out or they are fired for some reason.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

95% of this was ADMINISTRATION's fault.
Nobody in this conference can figure out why an athletic department would do their own sport's team's like this.

Coach's been comming and going after a year like a revolving door.
They get the hell out or they are fired for some reason.

It's that 5%, though, that is the toughest pill to swallow. I mean, SIX football players had grades changed in order to be eligible to play? That goes beyond understaffed administrators.

[Hoyadestroya85]

How many of these violations had to do with deceiving the NFL as to the abilities of one Tarvaris Jackson?

[jstate83]

It's that 5%, though, that is the toughest pill to swallow. I mean, SIX football players had grades changed in order to be eligible to play? That goes beyond understaffed administrators.

That's one of the thing's.
The coaches were going by what the people in charge of the academic's were telling them.
I mean if people are sending player's back with a clean bill of health, what else can a coach do beside's play them?

There have been all kind's of stuff that has come out over this 6 year time frame.