The Florida State football team will vacate an undetermined number of wins, serve four years' probation, and face a reduction in scholarships and other penalties due to what the NCAA described Friday as "major violations" from an academic cheating scandal.
Nine other programs were also penalized -- baseball, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's swimming, women's swimming, men's basketball, women's basketball, softball and men's golf -- and face the same sanctions. Overall, the scandal involved 61 athletes.
Football coach Bobby Bowden would have entered the coming season with 382 career victories, trailing Penn State coach Joe Paterno by one win on the all-time list. The sanctions will force him to forfeit all wins during which ineligible students competed in 2006 and 2007. ESPN
This sucks. I am a huge FSU fan, but did anyone not see this happening. FSU is one of the dirtiest programs in the NCAA. This sucks for me because this means that a lot of their wins in the next years will be irrelevant and a lot of their players are likely going to leave.(Hopefully not E.J. Manuel) This also will tarnish the career of Bobby Bowden and who has 382 victories. Sad day to be a Seminole fan.
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