Updated at 3:11 p.m., Thursday, April 19, 2007
NCAA places Louisiana Lafayette on 2-year probation
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Lafayette was placed on probation for two years and will lose basketball scholarships under NCAA sanctions announced today, stemming from a basketball player's correspondence course and the football program's mandatory summer workouts.The infractions took place from 2002-05. In a news release from Indianapolis, the NCAA chastised school officials for failing to catch an obvious error that led to the unidentified basketball player's reliance on correspondence courses in violation of NCAA rules. It also said the school failed to educate football coaches on compliance issues.
The basketball player, in violation of NCAA rules, relied on correspondence courses taken through another institution to meet academic requirements and stay eligible to play for the 2004 spring semester.
The football violations took place during the summers from 2002-05 and "involved voluntary conditioning activities becoming mandatory."
