ULL gets probation

[DrumDawg]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2843137

[RougeDawg]

OUCH.

[DogsWin]

Ooooh la la!


school officials "failed to catch the obvious error" regarding the correspondence courses and the football staff failed to recognize that its "voluntary program" for football conditioning had gone beyond NCAA limits.

As a result of the violations, Louisiana-Lafayette will forfeit 90 percent of the first year's money it got from the Sun Belt Conference for playing in the NCAA basketball tournaments in 2004 and 2005 and will forfeit two scholarships -- either both in one year or one in each of two years.

The records of the school's basketball team in 2003-04 and 2004-05 -- including NCAA tournament participation -- also will be erased and the school will not be allowed to make any reference to it, the NCAA said.

[GermDawg]

DAYUM! If it had happened at lsu though it would have been a slap on the wrist fine and thats it.

[oledawg66]

Wow. That's pretty petty. I think they could have gotten by with a warning and a reprimand. But what can you expect from a body that thinks that schools pick mascots in order to humiliate them?

[nadB]

Guessing our new o.c., Frank S., is feeling pretty good right now (not to say he didn't before) that he got the nod from DD.

jmo