FAMU gets probation no additional penalties
FAMU gets probation no additional penalties
By BILL KACZOR, Associated Press Writer
February 1, 2006
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The NCAA put Florida A&M on probation for four years Wednesday but did not add to penalties, including the loss of scholarships and championships, already imposed by the school and by the Mid-East Athletic Conference.
The university earlier admitted 196 rule violations in all 15 men's and women's sports spanning seven years from 1998-99 to 2004-05.
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"The institution has acknowledged that its compliance program was understaffed and inadequately funded, which resulted in an inexperienced and inadequately trained compliance staff," said Jo Potuto, vice chairwoman of the NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions.
Potuto, also a University of Nebraska law professor, said FAMU exhibited lack of institutional control.
The committee, however, found no evidence former football coach Billy Joe, who was fired in June, had committed any infractions and that he was free to seek other employment in the college ranks, Potuto said.
She praised FAMU's interim president, Castell Bryant, for efforts to correct the school's problems, but said they aren't enough to avoid probation.
"Numerous bylaws were misinterpreted, large numbers of student-athletes were certified improperly and many student-athletes competed while ineligible," she said.
The school will be subject to continuing oversight by the NCAA during the probationary period and must submit reports on the progress of corrective actions.
FAMU's self-imposed sanctions include three years on probation, the loss of four partial and two full scholarships in football and one each in baseball, women's basketball and women's track in each of the next three academic years.
The school also is cutting four official visits in football over that span.
The MEAC has stripped Florida A&M of 11 conference titles including two in football, but allowed the Rattlers to return to the conference after an abortive attempt to jump from Division I-AA to Division I-A in football.
famu ****?
i aint know ya mom goes to famu
anyways, this makes Black colleges look bad
or just FAMU
but you know blacks are a mass group and NOT individuals
Hey this is better than most people thought, and FAMU still gets to go to the postseason. 4 years probation isn't all that bad.
BTW, FAMU still finished in the top half of the final MEAC football standings last season...a season in which most people thought they would lose every game.
4 years probation isn't bad at all?.....are you serious?.....I can tell you arent really the smartest guy when it comes to the NCAA because FAMU is getting the death penalty
First of all, the death penalty is what SMU got...that program got shut down. FAMU still gets to play for the MEAC and I-AA crown.
This is no where close to the death penalty. Have looked at FAMU's 2006 recruiting class, it's a pretty damn cecent class if you ask me.
We signed 23 recruits this past signing day. 4 years probation is not that bad. It hasnt hurt recruiting. What hurt recruiting is when we tried to go D-1A and BECAUSE OF MONEY, we had to come back and lost a lot of the D-1 transfers we had.
If memory serves me correct, we beat A&T last year.
Yall can talk all the sh!t you want, but yall cant f#$k with us though.
black college football has put out some of the best that have ever played the game
Brazile
Rice
Payton
Williams
Hell, even Tuskegee has put more **** in the league than Alabama since 2000 and we didn't cheat nor do we have Million Dollar Facilities and Millions of Dollars from boosters to improve the preformance of our players
Hell the fastest 40 time ever in the combine came from an HBCU...
how many ncaa titles??? 1 or 2 at the most....if that.
