Too much cowbell?
AL dot com storyA former Mississippi State student and part-time athletics department tutor committed academic misconduct and, as a result, the NCAA has hit the school with a number of sanctions, including probation.
In a release by the NCAA, the tutor helped 10 football student-athletes and a men’s basketball student-athlete in an online general chemistry course by completing multiple assignments, exams and, according to the release, “nearly the entire course for student-athletes” during the fall semester of the 2018-19 school year.
In the agreement, which was approved by a Division I Committee on Infractions panel, eight football student-athletes and the men’s basketball student-athlete competed while ineligible.
Mississippi State has been put on three years of probation and lost four scholarships over a two-year span.
This season, Mississippi State will now have 10 players miss eight games this season due to suspension.