September 27, 2002

NCAA Gives Praise, but No Breaks, to Universities That Owned Up to Football Violations

If your boosters or coaches mess up, you're in a world of hurt. No matter what you do afterward.

That was the substance of a National Collegiate Athletic Association appeals committee's decision last week against the Universities of Alabama and Kentucky. The committee upheld findings of rules violations and penalties in two cases involving college coaches and boosters paying off high-school players and coaches in the cutthroat competition that is football recruiting in the

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