The NCAA's Last Innocents

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The below linked Wall Street Journal article indicates that there are only 17 schools with major athletic departments (whose football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision) that have never been found guilty of any major violation in any sport since 1953, when the NCAA began tracking rule violations. That's about 14% of the total.

The bulk of the "clean" schools are programs like Air Force, Alabama-Birmingham, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Florida Atlantic and Kent State that play in second-tier conferences where the pressure, the scrutiny, the level of recruiting and the expectations are smaller.

There are only four athletic programs from major conferences on the list. They are Boston College, Northwestern, Penn State and Stanford.

LINK:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303936704576400052122863390.html
 
Otis didn't BC have a couple of gambling scandals, basletball in the late 1970's and then a football scandal in the 1990's?
 
 
 1984ever,

The article only deals with NCAA violations.

If I recall the 1978 incident involved Boston College players agreeing to win by less than the point spread or to lose by more than the point spread in games they were big longshots. The scandal involved a large Providence crime family, several unsuspecting bookmakers and 4 Boston College players who were paid for their efforts. The scheme was found out when one of the mobsters involved in the fix became an informant in return for a lesser sentence on a drug trafficking conviction.

I do not believe that the BC betting scandal resulted in NCAA sanctions and as such would not be included in the NCAA tally noted in the WSJ article.
 
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