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South Carolina to lose 6 scholarships over the next three years, lowered the number of official visits by recruits, and University will pay a fine for 4 football players who accepted benefits...all self imposed penalties. The NCAA meets in February to see if any further punishment will be handed down.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... holarships

Was this for the hotel thing?

Yes...

from the article:
"The NCAA said last September that 10 South Carolina football players and two members of its women's track team received $47,000 in improper benefits for staying at a Columbia hotel for a reduced rate that was about a quarter of what should've been charged. The NCAA said the school committed a second major violation when athletes or prospects received $8,000 in benefits from Gordon and Lahn of SAMF.

South Carolina did not dispute either allegation, although it called compliance's decision to allow the hotel stays a "good faith error in judgment."

The Whitney Hotel a few miles off campus charged a rate of $14.95 per athlete for two-bedroom suites. The NCAA found the rate should've been more than $57 per night for each athlete. One football player who spent more than year at the hotel, the NCAA said, received an extra benefit worth $19,280."

and...

"The NCAA also noted the university's improper involvement with a Delaware-based mentoring group whose president and treasurer are boosters and South Carolina graduates."

The USCe Compliance Office needs to be cleaned out...if they did OK the hotel stays after reviewing the daily charge....that is no error in judgement, that is a failing.