Statement from FSU following 11/15 NCAA hearing
Florida State University Statement Following Nov. 15 Hearing Before the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee
Today, Attorney William (Bill) E. Williams presented Florida State University’s appeal before the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee in Indianapolis.
Florida State University will not comment at this time, except to restate what has already been said several times publicly. That is, we worked every step of the way with the NCAA staff on this case, and we had an understanding that if we did everything as they said, all player eligibility matters would be resolved. The documentation of that understanding can be seen at a glance in the attached “Chain Reaction of Unprecedented Steps in Florida State’s NCAA Case.”
The fact of the matter is that there was an across-the-board agreement between the NCAA and Florida State on student-athlete eligibility, and student-athletes gave up their academic due process rights in accepting the plan.
We complied fully with this plan. We never played any ineligible players.
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School "A" has won a game against school "B"
now that win is being negated and by doing so you are saying that school "B" is in actuality the winner
This simply does not make sense because you are rewarding a school that doesn't deserve rewarding.
The only way I can even somewhat justify negating wins would be if you can prove that the school knew about the infraction and tried to cover it up.
Punish the athletes not the institution!
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Unfortunately, this issue will linger as long as the FSU President continues to fight for Bowden. Otherwise this issue becomes moot and gone in a couple of years. As long as the school protects those athletes names, no one will ever know.
I could have called these athletes something besides cheaters but lets get real. They knew what they were doing was wrong, and they knew they were getting college credit for classes they didn't do work in. I call that cheating.
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Not even sure they could 'read' the agreement.
"The fact of the matter is that there was an across-the-board agreement between the NCAA and Florida State on student-athlete eligibility, and student-athletes gave up their academic due process rights in accepting the plan."
This is the problem. FSU, even after finding out about the cheating, maintains that they shouldn't be penalized by forfeiting games that cheaters played in. There is an NCAA rule that states a school must forfeit these games. Instead FSU lawyers only want to adhere to rules 1-9 and not 10-12. Can you plea bargain with players?
If an entire team cheated academically and were caught, should their wins count? Probably NOT.
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