Do some things sound familiar here??? Unfortunately, yes.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3958292
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3958292
Do some things sound familiar here??? Unfortunately, yes.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3958292
Do some things sound familiar here??? Unfortunately, yes.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3958292
Are you kidding me?? 61 athletes across 10 different sports??? This is insane.
In our case, we had a handful of athletes in one sport and that was horrible. Now, Florida State has upped the ante significantly. It will be interesting to see what all comes down from the NCAA here.
Obviously, FSU should be slapped around silly by the NCAA. Let's see if they actually have the courage to do it. Like Dr. Don has said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the NCAA caves and lets them off easy.
Having said that, it also wouldn't surprise me to see FSU get some pretty nasty penalties. In the past, the NCAA has really been unhappy with various levels of academic fraud. But this has to be among the most widespread and comprehensive academic fraud case I have seen. It just begs for FSU to be made an example of.
Quoted from the article:
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 an additional 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 fraud is considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations.
Florida State's probation extends through March 5, 2013.
I would definitely call this getting off easy! What a JOKE!!!!!
Yeah, if that's all they get, then this will be a travesty. So much for "extremely serious"
It goes to show how corrupt the NCAA really is when it comes to dealing with these issues.
Quoted from the article:
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 an additional 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 fraud is considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations.
Florida State's probation extends through March 5, 2013.
What ever came out of the Christian Laettner thing years back, where he did something wrong and there was rumor Duke would forfeit all the tournament games he played in (including championship).
Hard to believe that fsu would only get that kind of penalty. Is the Big 10 different, when in comes to ncaa penalties?
Don't you think it a little irresponsible to casually reference homicide when talking about intercollegiate athletics?
Lighten up Francis.
Until you can prove that FSU administration played a part in this, Clem-gate is worse, much worse. This appears to be a tutor helping them cheat. I suspect this happens all the time, at most NCAA schools.
Our Head basketball coach was involved and helping them cheat.
My point is that a high-level representative of the university (Clem) was involved and in fact was proven to have orchestrated the cheating. FSU appears to have been one (was it only one? Seems like alot for one tutor) tutor acting on her own. If they can prove that FSU's AD and/or coaches knew about this and encouraged it then it becomes much worse.
FWIW, and I admit to being pretty cynical, I suspect a huge portion of the "tutoring" offered to NCAA athletes borders on cheating. I would also like to audit the course offerings of athletes- I suspect you find they all take courses with the same professors- professors known to be sympatheic to the athletic program.
While cynical, this doesn't really bother me. High level athletics (any sport that prepares athletes for professional competition) and high level academics (university level) should not be connected. I love NCAA sports but understand the contradiction of asking full time athletes to be students just so they are allowed to compete at the highest level available to them. The NCAA system works great for the fans, the athletes not so much.