Taking away wins seems to be the NCAA's new hammer. Of course, taking away wins from games nobody much remembers is more like a Nerf hammer. 'Bama is the latest victim, losing 21 wins over a three-year period divided between the glorious reign of Mike Shula (or was it David?) and the Dark Lord, Nick Saban. Eight of the wins came in 2005, Shula's best season. The crime? Players getting free textbooks and giving/selling them to fellow students. C'mon, has the NCAA seen what these freaking textbooks cost?
But the true victim here is Shula. Now it will take him one season longer to catch Joe Paterno's all-time victory mark.
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Just one more reason for Tide fans to hate Dennis Francione and Mike Shula. NCAA let them off pretty easy.
Alabama football players were not the only student athletes getting free textbooks. Athletes in sixteen different sports (softball, baseball, women’s gymnastics, football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s swimming, women’s swimming, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s track and field, women’s track and field, women’s soccer and women’s volleyball) were cited in the NCAA Report. 22 of the 201 athletes were cited as "intentional wrongdoers" and the remaining 179 were unknowingly violating the NCAA limits because Alabama "failed to monitor" the book distributions to athletes. It was eventually noticed by a bookstore employee after three years. The NCAA stated that this may have been going on for years because the University didn't have records prior to the periods the NCAa investigated.
This was Alabama's
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