Florida State Punished for NCAA Violations

[joeybee12]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/sports/ncaafootball/07ncaa.html?_r=1&hp


The N.C.A.A. has ruled that Florida State was guilty of major violations in a widespread academic fraud case uncovered in 2007. It announced Friday that it would strip scholarships from 10 teams and force them to vacate all of the victories in 2006 and 2007 in which the implicated athletes participated. In addition, the college was placed on probation for four years.

It could affect football Coach Bobby Bowden’s race with Penn State’s Joe Paterno for most victories by a major college coach. Bowden’s total of 382 could be reduced by as many as 14, the number of games the Seminoles won in 2006 and 2007. Paterno has 383.

The scandal involved 61 athletes, and although the N.C.A.A. did not name them, Florida State did bar 23 football players from its 2007 Music City Bowl game after the fraud was uncovered. The football and men’s basketball teams will each lose one scholarship for the next two years, and similar punishments were given to women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s track, baseball, softball and men’s golf.

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I think we found the definition of "widespread."

[cboy4]

1. My my my.

What a bunch of cheaters.

Fortunately I cheer for a classy school

[joeybee12]

2. Classy? Oh yeah, you're a Notre Dame fan, right? n/t

[BulletproofLandshark]

3. By his own rules, he's not allowed to cheer for the Fighting Irish.

They don't play in his area code, after all.

[TZ]

4. .

:rofl:

[joeybee12]

7. Hee-hee

But if Saint Barry moves, C-boy will change his area code.

[cboy4]

5. BARF. No, I said a classy school

[joeybee12]

6. I'm still confused...all I see in the photo is a field filled with some spilled

Orange Crush soda...God, what a hideous color...thank God no school (I think) has ever chosen it for their colors.

[cboy4]

8. My baseball team's color is also orange you dick

:P

[joeybee12]

10. Is the color "orange you dick" a darker shade than regular orange? n/t

[Forkboy]

9. Man, when even your golf team is cheating....

[joeybee12]

11. I'm trying to think which sport might not have been involved....

...and I don't think any was!

[Forkboy]

12. Someone investigate their Spelling Bee champ, toot sweet!

:)

[joeybee12]

13. And their A/V club!

:9