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Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins

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Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins

The NCAA put Alabama on three years' probation Thursday for major violations in 16 sports, including football which must vacate 21 victories.
The violations include impermissible benefits obtained by 201 athletes through misuse of free textbooks.

Alabama identified 22, including seven football players, as "intentional wrongdoers" who knew they were receiving improper benefits.

The vacated football wins were from 2005 to 2007 in which those seven played.

The victories were vacated, meaning the school may not acknowledge a win. Vacating a win is different from forfeiture, in which the loser claims the victory, according to The Birmingham News.

Source:  Associated Press
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Re: Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins

That makes 2007, a difficult year for Alabama to begin with, even worse.  They were 2-6 with the vacated wins.

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2007 Sun Belt Football Champions 2007 New Orleans Bowl Champions 2008 Motor City Bowl Champions 2011 Sun Belt Basketball Champions No Bowls without Owls
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Re: Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins

Good, even though i like Saban, I HATE Alabama.
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College Football: Famed past tarnished

Alabama weighs appeal after NCAA vacates 21 football wins

The NCAA hit Alabama's football program where it hurts - the Tide's famed history.

The Crimson Tide will slip a notch in the record books if university officials don't appeal NCAA sanctions that would force the program to vacate 21 wins for misuse of textbooks acquired by student-athletes for free using their scholarships.

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Re: College Football: Famed past tarnished

Here is another article from the same paper.

NCAA sacks Bama

The NCAA placed Alabama's football program and 15 of the school's other athletic teams on three years' probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks, stripping the Crimson Tide of 21 football wins over a three-year period.

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Re: Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins

Planning on an appeal:

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Re: Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins

Maybe "abam is planning on more sanctions and that's why it's scheduling San Jose State ($900,000?) and Georgia State (which doesn't even have a football team yet!) rather than in-state school, Troy.

Poor scared elephants.

Did I mention that Auburn just scheduled Jax State?
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