Sixteen University of Alabama teams penalized


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Sixteen athletics teams at Alabama have been penalized for their involvement in improperly obtaining free textbooks for other students, with the football team ordered to vacate an unspecified number of victories between the 2005 and 2007 seasons, the NCAA committee on infractions announced Thursday.

Alabama could be forced to vacate as many as 21 football wins that came under the watch of former coach Mike Shula and current coach Nick Saban, sources at the university told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach. Citing a source, the Birmingham News reported the number of victories to be at least 10.

The violations involved a total of 201 athletes. The football team, which will not lose future scholarships, and the other 15 programs have been put on three years' probation -- the third probation penalty for university athletics in the last decade. Alabama also was ordered to pay a $43,900 fine.

In addition to football, the programs receiving penalties are men's and women's basketball, softball, baseball, women's gymnastics, men's and women's golf, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, women's soccer and women's volleyball.

In men's tennis and men's and women's track, the individual records of 15 athletes identified as "intentional wrongdoers" will be vacated and team point totals from regular season, postseason and NCAA championship contests will be reconfigured, the NCAA said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4250596
 



Damn NCAA if you just wanted to waste some money how bout wasting it for some drug testing that and rehabing that these kids need badly.:retard:
 
C-LeB28 said:
Wow! That'll get their attention! They may have to dissolve a program or two with a huge fine like that! :rolleyes:
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C-LeB.

Let's see . . . Saban makes about $4M a year . . . that's $1,923 per hour . . . a little less than three days salary. :lol:

Maybe they'll just furlough him for a few days to recoup the money. :lol:
 
Be sure to read the last few paragraphs.

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The NCAA’s predictable injustice
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
Dec 10, 1:08 am EST

The NCAA manual is thick, detailed and contains about a million bylaws. None of them state “Indiana must field a winning basketball team.â€

Yet there was Josephine Potuto, the chair of the committee on infractions, claiming that one reason the NCAA had sympathy for Indiana in its major violations case was the Hoosiers might not field a winning basketball team this year.

“The committee did note the current condition of the program,†Potuto said.

IU had already fired coach Kelvin Sampson and come up with its own sanctions prior to last month’s ruling. It’s not that additional sanctions were necessarily needed.

The NCAA just didn’t have to base its satisfaction with IU on an illogical (and inaccurate) standard.

What criteria did the NCAA use to judge the “condition of the program†(it’s actually quite good)? Why should anyone care that a cheating school might lose some games (isn’t that the point)? And how did Potuto figure Indiana was, presumably, going to struggle since the Hoosiers record at the time was just 2-2?

The statement spoke to the NCAA’s history of going easy on powerhouse programs while burying small schools.

.....

For decades the NCAA has been accused of selectively enforcing its rules based on the political and earning power of the offending institutions. It’s an oft-repeated topic here.

Under Brand, the NCAA has taken it to a new level. With the Thanksgiving week ruling, Indiana was the first major men’s basketball program found guilty of a major infraction in 25 months. The NCAA hasn’t caught a major football program in 17 months and counting. The previous two decades it averaged seven such cases a year.

It’s had no problem continuing to hammer the St. Augustine Colleges and Texas Southerns of the world, of course.

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Here’s how the IU roster was depleted.

Three key players from last year – D.J. White, Mike White and Lance Stemler were all seniors and out of eligibility. They were gone no matter what happened.

Freshman guard Eric Gordon did what everyone knew he would, turn pro after one season. To claim Gordon’s departure was in any way associated with firing Sampson and self-imposing sanctions is folly.

He only became a rent-a-star for IU when Sampson got him to break a verbal commitment to Illinois, a move that resulted in cries of unethical behavior from Champaign.

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