FSU Loses NCAA Appeal, Bowden Victories Gone...?

((HT: Tallahassee Democrat))

The NCAA's stand can be found here, thanks to our friends at WCTV in Tallahassee...

But the bottom line is that the folks in Indianapolis weren't too keen on the Seminoles point-of-view. FSU had agreed to four years probation and some scholarship reductions, but they didn't want to have any wins taken away- including a national title in track and field.

So much for that idea...

“We are certainly disappointed with the results of our NCAA appeal,” said athletics director Randy Spetman. “We believed that our administration did everything it possibly could to ferret out any and all improprieties in this matter. We were confident that those efforts would have significant sway in the appeal, but they did not.”

Now the university gets to sift through which athletes were involved when and attempt to determine whether or not their direct involvement can be attributed to the academic dishonesty...

In English, that means: "Were the athletes eligible because of their alleged cheating at the time the wins occurred in FSU athletics? And which wins were they...?" or something like that...

Brenda Monk, the former FSU learning specialist at the center of the case, has filed a defamation suit against the university as a result of all the shenanigans.

FSU would have one of their three track and field titles stripped.
Here's the 2007 championship wrap...
((HT: NCAA))


Next idea is for Spetman and the Seminole front office to try and split hairs on the football side and make sure that Bobby Bowden doesn't lose all 14 victories that are on the table...

Good luck with that one...