South Carolina self imposed penalties...

[Dossenator]

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

[Spence]

Was this for the hotel thing?

[Dossenator]

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."

[billybud]

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.