TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The NCAA infractions committee intends to uphold sanctions against Florida State that would take away victories in 10 sports, including as many as 14 by football coach Bobby Bowden.
After a public records lawsuit and intervention by Florida’s attorney general, the NCAA allowed Florida State to release the committee’s June 2 response to FSU’s appeal of the NCAA punishment that would strip the school of the victories.
University president T.K. Wetherell, a former Seminoles football player, said the school would exhaust all appeal opportunities with the NCAA “before going anywhere else.”
If the penalty sticks, Bowden would have little chance to stay abreast of Penn State’s Joe Paterno in their competition to finish as major college football’s winningest coach. Paterno begins the 2009 season with 383 wins — one more than Bowden has entering his 34th season at Florida State.
“Joe would not want to win this thing the way they (NCAA) are doing this,” Bowden said.
The NCAA said 61 athletes cheated on an online test in a music history course from the fall of 2006 through summer 2007 or received improper help from staffers who provided them with answers to the exam and typed papers for them.
BYU coach battling cancer
PROVO, Utah — BYU basketball coach Dave Rose’s family announced tests from emergency surgery he had this month to stop internal bleeding were positive for pancreatic cancer. Rose had his spleen and a portion of his pancreas removed during the surgery. The Associated Press
