The best way to describe the 2014-15 NCAA Basketball season for the Syracuse Orange is that of an awful movie dragging on ever so slowly. You look for an exit to escape but panic sets in as the realization hits you that there isn't one.
Today, this nightmare of a season has hit its peak ugliness as the NCAA came down hard on the school.
The NCAA released a statement today about their findings over the course of the past 10 years under the basketball legend known as Boeheim.
"Over the course of a decade, Syracuse University did not control and monitor its athletics programs, and its head men's basketball coach failed to monitor his program."
The release also states that the school itself self-reported 10 cases of violating the eligibility of a student athlete, primarily in men's basketball and football. In laymen's terms, Syracuse allowed students to play sports when in fact they should have been ineligible due to poor academics.
Although not every case the NCAA found wrongdoing in wasn't as simple as that, it's reasonable to believe that's the nuts and bolts of it.
For their transgressions, 106 wins over the past 10 seasons will be vacated, notes CBS Sports. They will also lose three scholarships per season through 2019 (12 in total), and Boeheim will be suspended for their first nine ACC games starting next year.
In addition, both the football and basketball program will serve a five-year probation and will have to give back $500 per game for each that featured an ineligible player.
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