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[h2]NCAA penalties extend to 10 FSU sports[/h2]
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The Florida State football team will vacate an undetermined number of wins, serve four years' probation, and face a reductionin scholarships and other penalties due to what the NCAA described Friday as "major violations" from an academic cheating scandal.
Nine other programs were also penalized -- baseball, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's swimming, women's swimming,men's basketball, women's basketball, softball and men's golf -- and face the same sanctions. Overall, the scandal involved 61 athletes.
Football coach Bobby Bowden would have entered the coming season with 382 career victories, trailing Penn State coach Joe Paternoby one win on the all-time list. The sanctions will force him to forfeit all wins during which ineligible students competed in 2006 and 2007.
It is not immediately clear how many wins Florida State will have to vacate. Dennis Thomas, the vice chair of the Committee on Infractions and acting chairfor the FSU case, said only one ineligible player would have had to participate in a game for the entire team record has to be vacated.
"We believe that the NCAA confirmed that our investigative efforts and our self-imposed penalties were appropriate," Florida State president T.K.Wetherell said in a statement Friday. "We already began implementing our self-imposed penalties. And we will begin implementing all but one of theNCAA's additional sanctions.
"We just don't understand the sanction to vacate all wins in athletics contests in which ineligible student-athletes competed because we did notallow anyone who we knew was ineligible to compete. Our position throughout the inquiry was that as soon as we knew of a problem, they didn'tplay."
The football team will be limited to 83 total scholarships in 2008-09; 82 in 2009-10; and 84 in 2010-11; the maximum usually allowed by the NCAA is 85.Florida State self-imposed the loss of the two scholarships for 2008-09, and will self-impose the loss of three scholarships for 2009-10. The NCAA added anadditional loss of scholarship from the maximum in 2010-11.
The committee stated this case was "extremely serious" because of the large number of student-athletes involved and the fact that academic fraudis considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations.
Florida State's probation extends through March 5, 2013.
"I must say that Florida State did a great job in cooperating with the enforcement staff in accumulating all of the information that wasrequired," Thomas said. "Yes, Florida State did self-report. They did an outstanding job. We have to give Florida State University credit forthat."
The NCAA determined that a former learning specialist, academic advisor and tutor gave "improper assistance" to Florida State athletes who weretaking online courses. According to the NCAA, the former learning specialist typed portions of papers for at least three athletes and also provided answers toan online psychology course quiz by instructing another athlete to complete the quiz on behalf of the athlete enrolled in the course.
Heather Dinich covers the ACC for ESPN.com.
Looks like Bowden will never catch Joe Pa...
BTW I hope they give the Terps their win back, we'd be 7-7 in the conference
[h2]NCAA penalties extend to 10 FSU sports[/h2]
Comment Email Print By Heather Dinich
ESPN.com
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The Florida State football team will vacate an undetermined number of wins, serve four years' probation, and face a reductionin scholarships and other penalties due to what the NCAA described Friday as "major violations" from an academic cheating scandal.
Nine other programs were also penalized -- baseball, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's swimming, women's swimming,men's basketball, women's basketball, softball and men's golf -- and face the same sanctions. Overall, the scandal involved 61 athletes.
Football coach Bobby Bowden would have entered the coming season with 382 career victories, trailing Penn State coach Joe Paternoby one win on the all-time list. The sanctions will force him to forfeit all wins during which ineligible students competed in 2006 and 2007.
It is not immediately clear how many wins Florida State will have to vacate. Dennis Thomas, the vice chair of the Committee on Infractions and acting chairfor the FSU case, said only one ineligible player would have had to participate in a game for the entire team record has to be vacated.
"We believe that the NCAA confirmed that our investigative efforts and our self-imposed penalties were appropriate," Florida State president T.K.Wetherell said in a statement Friday. "We already began implementing our self-imposed penalties. And we will begin implementing all but one of theNCAA's additional sanctions.
"We just don't understand the sanction to vacate all wins in athletics contests in which ineligible student-athletes competed because we did notallow anyone who we knew was ineligible to compete. Our position throughout the inquiry was that as soon as we knew of a problem, they didn'tplay."
The football team will be limited to 83 total scholarships in 2008-09; 82 in 2009-10; and 84 in 2010-11; the maximum usually allowed by the NCAA is 85.Florida State self-imposed the loss of the two scholarships for 2008-09, and will self-impose the loss of three scholarships for 2009-10. The NCAA added anadditional loss of scholarship from the maximum in 2010-11.
The committee stated this case was "extremely serious" because of the large number of student-athletes involved and the fact that academic fraudis considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations.
Florida State's probation extends through March 5, 2013.
"I must say that Florida State did a great job in cooperating with the enforcement staff in accumulating all of the information that wasrequired," Thomas said. "Yes, Florida State did self-report. They did an outstanding job. We have to give Florida State University credit forthat."
The NCAA determined that a former learning specialist, academic advisor and tutor gave "improper assistance" to Florida State athletes who weretaking online courses. According to the NCAA, the former learning specialist typed portions of papers for at least three athletes and also provided answers toan online psychology course quiz by instructing another athlete to complete the quiz on behalf of the athlete enrolled in the course.
Heather Dinich covers the ACC for ESPN.com.
Looks like Bowden will never catch Joe Pa...
BTW I hope they give the Terps their win back, we'd be 7-7 in the conference
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