Word: probationers
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Those schools that get caught paying their players over the table are put on probation. Those that do it anyway but don't get caught go to bowl games and reap lots of profits from ticket sales.
The time is the mid-1990s, and Dr. Tom More has returned home to Feliciana parish, that swath of Louisiana land running "from the Mississippi to the Pearl, from the thirty-first parallel to the Crayola blue of Lake Pontchartrain." More (a prominent, visionary presence in Love in the Ruins...
probation for their involvement in that incident.
Princeton's Disciplinary Committee placed the male student on probation for a term and gave the female student a "dean's warning" for "provocative behavior."
"The whole system" of shady recruiting "is wrong," Clements declared in October 1985, two months after S.M.U. was placed on probation by the N.C.A.A. for the sixth time. When yet another scandal was unfolding at the school in November, Clements growled, "I'm tired of all this Mickey Mouse business...