NCAA Panel Backs Alabama State's Appeal, Rejects Former Indiana Coach's
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Committee on Infractions erred when it imposed a five-year probation on Alabama State University in December for violations in its football program, the NCAA announced Tuesday. The association said that its Infraction Appeals Committee had found that the Division I panel abused its discretion by incorrectly asserting that Alabama State officials had dilly-dallied for more than two years in trying to bring the case to conclusion. In a rare rebuke to the infractions panel, the appeals committee reduced the probation to three years. In a related development, the appeals committee upheld penalties imposed last year on Kelvin Sampson, the former men's basketball coach at Indiana University.
