I'll bite, since you seem to know absolutely nothing about the situation.

1. Assistant coach gets caught by LSU staff breaking NCAA rules with recruit.

2. LSU sits player in question for season, but honors his scholarship.

3. LSU forces resignation of assistant coach at end of season.

4. LSU does not extend recruit's scholarship at end of season.

5. LSU self-imposes 2 scholly limit and reduces recruiting contacts 10% for 2010-2011.

6. NCAA approves of LSU's handling of the situation, although extends the 10% reduction in recruiting contacts one more year.

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NCAA Committee on Infractions chairman Dennis Thomas said LSU's violations were all considered "major." Yet he stressed that punishment could have been more severe if not for the efforts of LSU's compliance department to discover and report the violations and to cooperate with subsequent NCAA inquiries.

"The committee really felt that the LSU compliance staff and institution did an excellent job and that they assisted the (NCAA) enforcement staff in the investigation regarding these violations," Thomas said.

He pointed specifically to senior associate athletic director Miriam Segar, who became suspicious of Hicks' living arrangements from the time he arrived in Baton Rouge. According to an earlier LSU report on the matter, Segar spent weeks pressing for answers and made the decision to bar Hicks from traveling to LSU's 2009 season-opening game at Washington because she was unsatisfied with the information she had received.

"That was critical," said Thomas, who is also the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. "If that had not been done, the institution could have really been under more severe and serious penalties as well."