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Football program placed on NCAA probation

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As expected, nothing more than a big hand slapping.

Other than the probations, only remaining penalty is next year only being allowed to recruit 28 vs 30. With only a handful of seniors this shouldn't affect much. Most incoming freshman are on partial scholarships at the NCAA 1AA level anyway. Basically we lost one scholly for next year.

I am a little disappointed about the picking and choosing of players by the prior staff regarding who would be suspended or not for drug failures. Typically is a 1 or 2 game suspension. Make me believe/speculate that a couple of our offseason transfers this year were multiple test failures.

At least the NCAA got it right this time and will be penalizing the offending coaches (should they return to coaching) and not the returning players in the program....to many times the NCAA is heavy handed to the wrong people.

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I don't have to be PC, I guess we can assume this is why Aleksander Milanovic skipped town! Probably why we were short a few starts early on too... Sure it's a tight ship with Sears now...
 
All penalties have been served already it seems with a few extras, doesn't sound like it was to much with us signing so many players last year. Plus with all young players on the roster. I know for D1 you can sign up to 25 players a year not sure if same for FCS. Hopefully all young players stay and stay off the substances so we can keep some players around. I have liked our last two signing classes better anyway with the local talent.
 
OldSchoolHornet said:
Hey SDH...what do you have to say now, genius?
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Nothing other than it's minor thing already mentioned on this board. You must be upset that the violations aren’t the catastrophic ones you were hoping for. Hell for a 10 page “anonymous” letter I think we all expected more than some text messages and phone calls to recruits in the dead period, not keeping “voluntary” workouts voluntary, and not properly disciplining a handful of players that piss dirty (biggest issue of them all imo). Did the guy write the letter in crayon?
 
OldGreen67 said:
As expected, nothing more than a big hand slapping.

Other than the probations, only remaining penalty is next year only being allowed to recruit 28 vs 30. With only a handful of seniors this shouldn't affect much. Most incoming freshman are on partial scholarships at the NCAA 1AA level anyway. Basically we lost one scholly for next year.
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Considering the large class that was brought in last off season with the self imposed restrictions in place, it doesn't look like the penalty will have that much of an impact.

I am a little disappointed about the picking and choosing of players by the prior staff regarding who would be suspended or not for drug failures. Typically is a 1 or 2 game suspension. Make me believe/speculate that a couple of our offseason transfers this year were multiple test failures.
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Yup. That sets a bad example to not only the football program but other Hornet athletes. There is no place for that anywhere in the athletics department.

At least the NCAA got it right this time and will be penalizing the offending coaches (should they return to coaching) and not the returning players in the program....to many times the NCAA is heavy handed to the wrong people.

:thumb:
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Yup, the recently changed NCAA violation structure probably played a role in these violations not resulting in significant penalties.

Bee article.

Capital Public Radio audio/article. Link to Sac State announcement, NCAA report, and NCAA probation announcement here.
 
Well love to hear from the guy that wrote the letter. He was obviously not a fan of Sperbeck. Probably just working to get him fired. My guess it was a disgruntled coach. Before Sperbeck resigned he fired the whole defensive staff except the guy that was running the defense. The same guy that became the DC that fired Baiz and Osterhout. Whoever wrote the letter had to be someone on the inside
 
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