Ncaasports

College Athletes Being Paid

By emslater

  • University of Kentucky basketball, 1952

    University of Kentucky basketball, 1952
    The basketball team receive the "Death Penalty" for the 1952-53 season for athletes being payed.

  • University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball, 1973

    University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball, 1973
    Southwestern Louisiana was found guilty of more than 125 violations in August 1973. Most of them involved small cash payments to players

  • Southern Methodist University football, 1986

    Southern Methodist University football, 1986
    The SMU case was the first modern "death penalty" - that is, the first one utilized under the "repeat violator" rule. It is the only modern death penalty handed down to a Division I school.

  • Kansas basketball, 1988

    Kansas basketball, 1988
    A player was given cash for plane tickets, clothes, an electric bill for his grandmother, and a no-show job by then-Kansas head coach. The NCAA indicated that it had nearly given Kansas a death penalty.

  • MacMurray College tennis, 2004

    MacMurray College tennis, 2004
    $126,000 worth of grants for 10 players from foreign countries. Division III schools are not allowed to offer scholarships.

  • Texas Southern athletics, 2012

    Texas Southern athletics, 2012
    The football and men's basketball programs--including academic fraud, illicit benefits given to student athletes, lying on the part of coaches, and lying to the NCAA about self-imposed sanctions.