re: I Have a Question About the Mississippi State Sanctions

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time after time nothing is done to the likes of North Carolina, or Alabama, or Auburn, or LSU, or none of the other "big name" schools? The NCAA is a damn joke.

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2009 (text books)
3 years probation; vacated 21 wins; $43,900 fine.

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Penalty Summary: Public reprimand and censure; three years of probation; vacation of records for all wins in which any of the seven involved football student-athletes competed while ineligible during the 2005-06 and 2007-08 academic years. Further in the sports of men's tennis, men's track and women's track the records of the 15 involved student-athletes shall be vacated and team point totals shall be reconfigured accordingly; the institution shall pay a fine of $43,900; annual compliance reporting required.

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2002 (looking down the barrel of a gun)
5 years probation; lots of scholarships lost; 2 seasons no bowl game.

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Penalty Summary: Public reprimand and censure; five years of probation; postseason ban for 2002 and 2003; reduction in grants in the sport of football to 17 in 2002-03; 18 in 2003-04 and 19 in 2004-05; prohibiting of athletics representatives from traveling with football team charters, attending football team practices, participating in any fashion with the university's football camps and accessing sidelines and locker rooms before, during and after football games; the permanent dissociation of three athletics representatives; disassociation of another athletics representative for a period of three years and annual reporting. [PENALTIES UPHELD ON APPEAL]

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1995 (signing a napkin contract)
2 years probation; 1 year no bowl game; forfeited 9 wins.

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Penalty Summary: Public reprimand; dissasociation of athletics representatives; reduction from 85 to 81 total grants for 1995-96 and 1996-97; reduction from 25 to 12 initial grants for 1996-97; forfeiture of contests in 1993-94; annual reports; attendance at NCAA compliance seminar; recertification. (REFLECTS CHANGES MADE BY INFRACTIONS APPEALS COMMITTEE.)

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