NCAA places Alabama football program on probation
Published: June 11, 2009
Updated: June 11, 2009
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - The NCAA has placed Alabama’s football program and 15 other of the school’s athletic teams on three years probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks.
Related:
NCAA Public Infraction Report (PDF)
The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions said Thursday the football team must forfeit an unspecified number of wins in which any of seven players took part during 2005-2007. The university identified the seven as “intentional wrongdoers.“
The NCAA said that 201 student-athletes in the 16 sports, including men’s basketball, obtained “impermissible benefits” by using their scholarships to obtain free textbooks for other students. It also found the university guilty of “failure to monitor.“
The university was ordered to pay a $43,900 fine.
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It’s simple. The issue was not an NCAA issue since the players or the University didn’t gain any type of competitive advantage. Therefore, the penalties are too severe or should me much less.
That “farm” down the road is crawling in their skins because they wanted Bama busted. Instead, the NCAA acknowledged Bama dealing with the issue appropriately.
The question now is, “What eats at AU fans the most…Chiziks hire or the NCAA not busting Bama?
Too harsh, why should these kids be punished for what other guys did? They just like to go after Bama!
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