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Football/basketball: NCAA releases USC sanctions; plus USC reaction
By Jeff Faraudo
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:30 pm in Basketball, Football.
Here’s the official NCAA news release on its sanctions against USC football, men’s basketball and women’s tennis.
UPDATE WITH USC REACTION BELOW
The headlines:
• Four years of probation
• A two-year football postseason ban
• Vacation of regular-season and postseason wins for all three sports
• Scholarship reductions in football (to 15 initial grants and 75 total grants for each of the 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years, which represents a decrease of 10 scholarships for each of the three seasons)
• Scholarship reductions in men’s basketball (from 13 to 12 for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years)
• Recruiting restrictions for men’s basketball
Here’s USC’s official response. Not surprisingly, the Trojans say they will appeal penalties they believe are too harsh.
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said the conference will provide its statement later this afternoon.
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June 10th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
$C just got bi-otch slapped.
June 10th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Some justice for the cheaters.
2 year post season ban is an eye catcher.
10 scholarship per year reduction for 3 years is a back breaker.
June 10th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
3 years losing 10 scholarships is so huge.
U$C will cut guys in the 5th year to make up for offers already accepted.
Can’t wait to see how Kiffin and Orgeron are going to be able to function without making more (at least minor) violations.
June 10th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
“There is a systemic problem facing college athletes today: unscrupulous sports agents and sports marketers,” Dickey stated. “The question is how do we identify them and keep them away from our student-athletes? To provide us with recommendations about the best way to protect our student-athletes and their families from those who seek to violate the rules, we have retained the Freeh Group, headed by former federal judge and ex-FBI director Louis Freeh.”
In other words, the U. of Sports Corruption needs to enlist the services of criminal law and procedure experts in order to figure out how to avoid being criminals. Nice work, guys.
June 10th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
As Malcom X once said, “Chickens coming home to roost never makes me sad.”
June 11th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Moron on Vacation?