Did the penalty fit the crime?
Most Missouri fans didn’t think the NCAA acted fairly when it banned the school’s football team from playing in a bowl game next season following an investigation into academic fraud committed by a former tutor.
Missouri’s baseball and softball programs were also given a postseason ban, but Mizzou said it would appeal the ruling.
The decision, which was announced Thursday, came 15 months after the NCAA ruled North Carolina would not be punished for an academic scandal.
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