Florida State forfeit wins, on probation

by ninjapizza Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:27 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3958292

I don't care much about the hamskin ball or things that happen in Florida as a general rule, but this was quite curious.

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.