Well the FIU game just got easier

[BULLfreak]

FIU hit with 4 years probation for variety of infractions

Associated Press

Updated: May 7, 2008, 5:35 PM ET

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MIAMI -- Florida International was placed on four years probation by the NCAA on Wednesday and will lose scholarships for a variety of infractions.

More than 40 athletes who competed for the school from the 2002-03 through the 2006-07 academic years violated rules, said Josephine Potuto, chairwoman of the NCAA committee on infractions.

The school, which jumped from NCAA Division I-AA to Division I-A, misapplied enrollment and financial aid rules, transfer requirements and eligibility rules, the NCAA found.

"The institution acknowledges that it was not ready for the move, at least from a compliance standpoint," Potuto said.

The men's basketball program lost one scholarship and its baseball program lost 1.5. The football program was stripped of three scholarships. In all, 11 sports lost scholarships.

The violations were self-reported. Records set during the years of the infractions were erased, and the probationary period is to end May 19, 2012, because the sanctions were added on top of other penalties.

The school said the violations were not intentional.

"Upon discovering these violations, we put in place new compliance procedures that are much more suited to the university FIU has become in the last 10 years," university president Modesto Maidique said. "We now have the level of staffing and the redundancies that will prevent these types of infractions from occurring again in the future."

Rick Mello, the school's former athletic director who became an associate commissioner with the Sun Belt Conference in 2006, declined comment through a Sun Belt spokesman.

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

[Greenzer0]

Aren't these scholarships for future classes? It doesn't change the current team.

FIU was supposed to be easy the first time around, too! 

[crambone]

These guys will NEVER win.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

FIU was supposed to be easy the first time around, too! 

yeah, and we almost got pwnd.

[BULLfreak]

There is no way we lose this game

[JoeB]

Doubt those 3 schollies at the end of their bench would affect the game in '08.  Still have to win the game on the field and in the trenches.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

There is no way we lose this game

u sir, may have just jinxed us.

i must now sacrifice an endangered florida panther and drink the blood to ward off your bad juju.

[Southshore26]

FIU was supposed to be easy the first time around, too! 

yeah, and we almost got pwnd.

Maybe I'm missing the joke.... I don't recall us playing FIU before.... FAU yes (I'm still getting over the sunburn) but FIU I don't remember....

And yes there is a deffinate difference..... FAU is a much better team than FIU

[Carolina_Bull]

There is no way we lose this game

u sir, may have just jinxed us.

i must now sacrifice an endangered florida panther and drink the blood to ward off your bad juju.

Good news, under modern Shamanic law, you only have to kill a hockey player that plays for the Florida Panthers.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

Maybe I'm missing the joke.... I don't recall us playing FIU before....

we played FIU two years ago at Ray Jay and won the game 21-20.

and that win only came after a fumble recovery with about 3 minutes left in the 4th, and a last minute TD with 2 minutes left.

yeah, we were ALMOST the first team to lose to FIU since they jumped up to D1A.