Is OSU going to end up with the most severe punishment of all schools caught in the FBI’s sting?
If anything, NC State’s and Oklahoma State’s punishments following the FBI’s sting into college basketball should be flipped, but because of the different avenues the schools took, OSU again drew the short straw.
The Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP) handed out its first ruling earlier this week, choosing to not give the Wolfpack a postseason ban despite a former assistant coach allegedly setting up a $40,000 payment to former five-star recruit Dennis Smith Jr.
Oklahoma State went through the NCAA’s traditional infractions process and was hit with heftier sanctions for employing Lamont Evans, who allegedly paid Jeffrey Carroll $300, which Carroll paid back and served a suspension for.