The NCAA Committee on Infractions levied a two-year-probation period to Georgia Southern for providing “improper academic assistance to three football players,” according to ESPN.
“The penalties also include the loss of two football scholarships during the 2016-17 school year, a 10 percent reduction in official visits and a 10 percent reduction in football evaluations during the same year,” according to ESPN. “Georgia Southern’s football team will have to vacate any victories in which the players competed while they were ineligible, and the university self-imposed a $5,000 fine.”
ESPN reported that an NCAA investigation into this matter found that a football player plagiarized an assignment after a former assistant compliance director gave the player a flash drive containing assignments from when she took the same class.