The USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps

Corretion to your story regarding Louisiana. The coach, Robert Lee, that followed Coach Evans allowed the player to take 19 correspondence credits. Coach Evans lost games because the player, also, played for Evans and they took all of that players games away. The player was eligible for Coach Evans.

First commenter. Please review NCAA press release dated April 19, 2007 regarding ULL situation. Jesse Evans coached ULL in 2003-2004 season.

"During the fall 2003 semester, a fourth-year men's basketball student-athlete ("student-athlete 1") who was academically deficient enrolled in two three-hour correspondence courses from another institution. He completed both courses with grades of "B" before the start of the spring 2004 semester and those grades were erroneously used as part of the calcualtion when he was certified as eligible to compete in the sping semester. Without the two "B" grades from the correspoondence courses, student-athlete "1" grade point average would not have met the minimum cumlative grade point average a fourth year student-athlete needs to maintain eligibility. Student-athlete 1 competed throughout the spring semester, including an NCAA tournament contest and was a significant contributor to the team."

The player then took similar credits the summer of 2004.

So the academic violations started on Evan's watch and concluded on Lee's watch. Sure he was not declared inelibigle until after the 2003-2004 season, but he was indeed inelibile.

The player was NOT ineligible until the new coach had the player take to many correspondence courses.The two courses taken in 2003-2004 were not the problem. The NCAA made a decision to revoke all of the players games. He was only eligible for half the year in 2003-2004 season.

The report speaks for itself. Go check it out.

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/resources/file/eb46094152d5a55/20070419_ull_report2.pdf

Here's another quote from the report

"However, without the two "B" grades, student athlete "1" had earned in the correspondence courses his grade-point average would not have been high enough to allow a fourth year student athlete to compete. Following the erroneous certification, student athlete complete was ineligible in 18 contests during the spring season."

So how can you say his ineligibility for that spring had nothing to do with the 2 correspondence courses in the fall. Remember, the player was ineligible in the fall. The two B grades from the fall allowed him to get eligible. What courses he took that following summer had no effect on his eligibility the prior spring.