Sixteen athletics teams at Alabama have been penalized for their involvement in improperly obtaining free textbooks for other students, with the football team ordered to vacate an unspecified number of victories between the 2005 and 2007 seasons, the NCAA Committee on Infractions announced Thursday. Alabama could be forced to vacate as many as 21 football wins that came under the watch of former coach Mike Shula and current coach Nick Saban, sources at the university told ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach. Citing a source, the Birmingham News reported the number of victories to be at least 10. [ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4250596"]Alabama Crimson Tide to vacate football wins - ESPN[/ame]
NCAA places Alabama football program on probation - forfeit at minimum 10 games http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-alabama-ncaa&prov=ap&type=lgns
I am relatively stunned. How long will it be before we hear Nick say " I am not going to be.........coach "
wait here is what i don't get. The athletes at my college get their books paid for by athletics but they don't get in trouble for doing so... Also, the 2006 Cotton Bowl won by Alabama, is that taken away to? and if so do they give the trophy to texas tech and rings to the players?
No the athletes used the scholarship money to buy the books and than sell to other students to make money. Alabama is being punished for not keeping a closer eye on its student atletes as well.
o ok, We do have Athletes who do the same thing here... I work at the bookstore, and last year I had an athlete sell back his book for money, when they are suppose to go a special line to sell back their books
No neither team will get a win however Texas Tech will still get a loss. Players won't have to give anything back or anything like that either. Just the wins will be stripped from the records
