NEW ORLEANS -- The NCAA has largely accepted the Louisiana-Lafayette football program's self-imposed sanctions stemming from an investigation into an ex-assistant coach's effort to arrange fraudulent college entrance exam scores for recruits.
The university investigated the matter itself while cooperating with a parallel NCAA probe and pre-emptively punished itself with a reduction in 11 scholarships spread over three seasons (through 2017-18), recruiting restrictions and voiding all records from the 2011 season, a season during which potentially ineligible students played.
The NCAA also is placing ULL on probation for two years through Jan. 11, 2018, assessing a $5,000 fine, adding more recruiting restrictions next season and vacating certain additional results from 2012-14.