We now take you to South Bend, Indiana

[L Buff]

If I'd heard about this previously ... I'd forgotten about it. But anything bad for ND is okay by me.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The NCAA has ordered the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to vacate wins from their 2012 and 2013 football seasons in an academic misconduct case, it was announced Tuesday.

According to the decision, the agreed-upon violations centered on multiple years of academic misconduct by a former athletic trainer and two football student-athletes over a three-year period. The trainer also provided six other football players with impermissible academic benefits across 18 courses over two years.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions prescribed a public reprimand and censure of Notre Dame, one year of probation, a two-year show-cause order for the former trainer, a two-year disassociation of the former trainer, a vacation of all records in which ineligible student-athletes participated while ineligible during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons and a $5,000 fine.

Football coach Brian Kelly and Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins both said the university would appeal the decision to vacate the wins.

 

[Gramburglar]

Apparently not much was real at Notre Dame in 2012.

BUT...

thankfully the record will show Notre Dame won nothing all year and lost the National Championship.

 

[TDforTD]

 

[somebody]

$5000 is a joke, right? They should forfeit all tv money, that would put teeth into this.

 

[L Buff]

I'm thinking Kelly's days at ND may be numbered.

 

[Buffnik]

I'm thinking Kelly's days at ND may be numbered.

I thought he would have been done when he had a student up on a tower in 50 mph winds filming his practice and the kid died when the tower collapsed.

 

[Dark Bohner]

I thought he would have been done when he had a student up on a tower in 50 mph winds filming his practice and the kid died when the tower collapsed.

"Winning is the only thing that matters. Life or Death is irrelevant." - Touchdown Jesus, South Bend

 

[89BUFF89]

$5000 lol. TV ban would be epic.

 

[BuffWarHog]

Yeah, I didn't even know this was coming.

 

[SuperD]

I'm having a hard time understanding this given the NCAA's approach with North Carolina.

 

[hokiehead]

I'm having a hard time understanding this given the NCAA's approach with North Carolina.

I think Carolina's supposed to receive the wins that ND vacates

 

[patebuff]

The good ol' vacating wins from previous years. That will show them!

 

[aik]

This doesn't vindicate the memory of Lizzy Seeberg, or that poor dog that Prince Shembo also battered, but at least positive to see this school isn't bulletproof when they let transgressions slide.

 

[b3buffs]

I thought he would have been done when he had a student up on a tower in 50 mph winds filming his practice and the kid died when the tower collapsed.

All Kelly worried about with that is that he didn't have that Wednesday's practice footage.