NCAA places Alabama football program on probation

[smupony94]

NCAA places Alabama football program on probation

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — 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.

The NCAA's Committee on Infractions said Thursday the football team must vacate 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

[MrMustang1965]

Slap on the wrist.

[PlanoStang]

More on the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090611/ap_on_sp_ot/alabama_ncaa_2

[EastStang]

So is that the players gaming the system or the systemic convenience to allow the players to cash in? If it were us, we'd be thrown out of Division 1, banned from football for 100 years, and told to stop using a live animal mascot.

[SMU21TCU10]

So is that the players gaming the system or the systemic convenience to allow the players to cash in? If it were us, we'd be thrown out of Division 1, banned from football for 100 years, and told to stop using a live animal mascot.

And be forced to forfeit our 2 wins from 07-08

[MrMustang1965]

Texas Tech fans are now 'celebrating' their Cotton Bowl win over 'Bama on January 2, 2006.

[Stallion]

they finally won one

[Garret]

It looks like Hawaii and JJ picked up a road win against Alabama in 2006...Hawaii would have won the game if there hadn't been a couple of fumbles lost, including one that stopped what would have been the game-winning drive.

[HB Pony Dad]

And when do we expect the other shoe (anvil) to drop on my Trojans???

Oh I forgot, USC is too profitable for the Television Gods!

If 'Bama gets a wrist slap USC will get a severe oral reprimand no doubt!

[smupony94]

And when do we expect the other shoe (anvil) to drop on my Trojans???

Oh I forgot, USC is too profitable for the Television Gods!

If 'Bama gets a wrist slap USC will get a severe oral reprimand no doubt!

You said oral and Trojans

[HB Pony Dad]

You said oral and Trojans

Indeed

I doubt that the NCAA would waste the paper for a "verbal" reprimand!

[Stallion]

Oral reprimmand-is that kinda like a severe tongue lashing?

[ponyte]

Well, Alabama learned its lesson and will not get caught again until 2013. That way they are clearly outside the 3 year probation timeframe and any violation after 2013 will get another very, very severe hand slap. No lost scholarships. A fine most big dollar donors can pay with pocket change. No restriction on post season play. Wow, it just doesn’t get much tougher than that. Honestly, they reported themselves and the NCAA believed they have adequate internal controls (even though Alabama couldn't choke up records for an entire year). I would just love to see a witness try that in a court of law. Gee, judge, we just lost a whole year’s worth of records and can’t seem to locate them (wink, wink).

[DiamondM75]

Well, Alabama learned its lesson and will not get caught again until 2013. That way they are clearly outside the 3 year probation timeframe and any violation after 2013 will get another very, very severe hand slap. No lost scholarships. A fine most big dollar donors can pay with pocket change. No restriction on post season play. Wow, it just doesn’t get much tougher than that. Honestly, they reported themselves and the NCAA believed they have adequate internal controls (even though Alabama couldn't choke up records for an entire year). I would just love to see a witness try that in a court of law. Gee, judge, we just lost a whole year’s worth of records and can’t seem to locate them (wink, wink).

I think I will try this at my next IRS audit.

[smupony94]

Death penalty remains in NCAA storage
2:02 PM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Since SMU's football program received the death penalty a couple decades ago, no other schools have faced such severe justice from the NCAA.

It's not for lack of trying. Alabama just went on probation for the fourth time in 14 years. For the Crimson Tide, the repeated violations have the sting of speeding tickets, nothing more, as Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports writes:

"One slip-up during the five-year repeat violator statute of limitations is considered serious. It makes a program eligible for the NCAA death penalty. At Alabama, they scoff. It's a Crimson and White Groundhog Day every day.

"By the time Alabama's latest NCAA repeat offender clock stops ticking it will be 2014. That's 19 years of -- as one infractions committee chairman once put it -- "staring down the barrel of a gun" for the program. Nineteen years of being on death row.

"If this is staring down the barrel of a gun, then 'Bama is Dirty Harry. Make the Tide's day. Alabama's romp through the rules and regs is a clear indicator that SMU's death penalty in 1987 will be the one and only such punishment ever handed down. The NCAA will never again drop the hammer because in the Yellowhammer State we've seen that nobody does it better. Or worse."