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UMASS Placed on Probation
"The NCAA is stripping Massachusetts of victories in men's basketball and women's tennis for overpaying 12 athletes about $9,100 in financial aid over three years, prompting criticism of the penalty from the Atlantic 10 Conference commissioner.The NCAA announced Friday the Committee on Infractions had imposed a two-year probation on UMass that will end October 2022 in addition to vacating results involving athletes who received what were determined to be a total of 13 inappropriate payments.The school will also pay a self-imposed fine of $5,000.UMass plans to appeal the committee's decision to vacate results from 2014-17 that include 59 basketball wins and an Atlantic 10 Conference championship in women's tennis"
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Re: UMASS Placed on Probation
Is that total over 3 years? If so that's about $250 per year per student. At most it would be $750 per year per student OMG. Would an SEC school get that kind of severe punishment? Is there more to this story? Or is this the NCAA being totally asinine?
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Re: UMASS Placed on Probation
It does seem oddly harsh for such a small amount of $.
Anyone see the 30 for 30 on SMU? The NCAA dropped the Death Penalty on the up start SMU program while turning a blind eye to years to SEC and Big12 schools. A little before my time, wild story, big schools throwing brand new luxury cars at Eric Dickerson (and others)
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