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Thursday, May 03, 2007

As Ever, Florida International



'The N.C.A.A. announced that 63 teams would be subject to immediate penalties [based on lack of academic progress], 31 received public notice letters that they would be subject to more significant penalties next year, and 18 would be subject to both. Teams receiving warning letters are on notice to improve immediately. If not, they could eventually be subject to penalties as serious as postseason ineligibility.

Of the 11 Division I-A football programs assessed scholarship losses, only Arizona, which will lose four scholarships, plays in a Bowl Championship Series conference. The rest of the Division I-A programs come from small conferences and traditionally have smaller budgets to spend on academic support: Florida International (nine), San Jose State (seven), Buffalo (four), Toledo (four), Middle Tennessee State (four), Nevada-Las Vegas (three), Louisiana-Lafayette (two), Western Michigan (two), Alabama at Birmingham (one) and Hawaii (one).'


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