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Alabama's NCAA textbook case involves about 200 athletes - Scarblog - al.com
News is swirling around the Alabama athletic program as it waits to hear from the NCAA Infractions Committee on potentially major NCAA rule violations over the improper disbursement policy of scholarship issued textbooks.
While the school expects to receive the announcement any day, Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News reports that the violations are much larger than Alabama officials ever publicly wanted to acknowledge. Scarbinsky reports that over 200 student-athletes were involved in the violations, which took place over four years.
Combine that with the fact that the violations took place while the cloud of the Albert Means case was still hanging over the Crimson Tide athletic department, and another report of the school admitting a failure to monitor could bring the axe down hard on Alabama.
While people may be quick to dismiss the impropriety because it lacks the explosiveness of the allegations recently being leveled in Memphis and at USC, Scarbinsky points to NCAA Bylaws 31.2.2.3 and 31.2.2.4 as real reasons that Crimson Tide fans should be worried:
Alabama agreed that the committee may apply those bylaws in this case but asked the committee not to strike the performance records of those student-athletes who were not intentional wrong-doers.
As for the intentional wrongdoers, the school asked that the committee consider that they did not realize their actions, while wrong, violated NCAA rules, that they returned or paid for the texts and materials they obtained and that the benefit gained provided minimal if any competitive advantage to them.
Alabama reminded the committee that it is not required to vacate team performance records but didnt ask the committee to keep those records intact.
From the looks of it, Florida State might not be the only football program vacating wins this offseason.
CollegeFootballTalk.com - Alabama Textbook Scandal May Be Larger Than People Think
News is swirling around the Alabama athletic program as it waits to hear from the NCAA Infractions Committee on potentially major NCAA rule violations over the improper disbursement policy of scholarship issued textbooks.
While the school expects to receive the announcement any day, Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News reports that the violations are much larger than Alabama officials ever publicly wanted to acknowledge. Scarbinsky reports that over 200 student-athletes were involved in the violations, which took place over four years.
Combine that with the fact that the violations took place while the cloud of the Albert Means case was still hanging over the Crimson Tide athletic department, and another report of the school admitting a failure to monitor could bring the axe down hard on Alabama.
While people may be quick to dismiss the impropriety because it lacks the explosiveness of the allegations recently being leveled in Memphis and at USC, Scarbinsky points to NCAA Bylaws 31.2.2.3 and 31.2.2.4 as real reasons that Crimson Tide fans should be worried:
Alabama agreed that the committee may apply those bylaws in this case but asked the committee not to strike the performance records of those student-athletes who were not intentional wrong-doers.
As for the intentional wrongdoers, the school asked that the committee consider that they did not realize their actions, while wrong, violated NCAA rules, that they returned or paid for the texts and materials they obtained and that the benefit gained provided minimal if any competitive advantage to them.
Alabama reminded the committee that it is not required to vacate team performance records but didnt ask the committee to keep those records intact.
From the looks of it, Florida State might not be the only football program vacating wins this offseason.
CollegeFootballTalk.com - Alabama Textbook Scandal May Be Larger Than People Think
