NCAA upholds stripping wins from Bowden

[dbackjon]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... &type=lgns

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)—The NCAA has upheld its decision to vacate up to 14 victories from former football coach Bobby Bowden as part of Florida State’s penalty in an academic cheating scandal.

Bowden retired as major college football’s second most winning coach with 389 wins after Florida State’s 33-21 Gator Bowl victory over West Virginia, Jan. 1. Penn State’s Joe Paterno, who is still coaching, has 394 wins.

The 80-year-old Bowden was in California on Tuesday to present a Fellowship of Christian Athletes award named after him and not immediately available to comment on the decision.

University officials, however, said they were surprised and disappointed by the NCAA decision.

“We believed that our administration did everything it possibly could to ferret out any and all improprieties in this matter,” Florida State athletic director Randy Spetman said.

[BlueHen86]

As long as the penalty is consistent with penalties given to other schools guilty of similiar infractions I think this is the right call.

[ngineer]

Must have been a whole lotta bumping and grinding....