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Charleston Southern University has agreed to reduce its football scholarship funds and vacate records from games in which ineligible athletes participated after the National Collegiate Athletic Association found that university officials failed to monitor their athletics program.
The NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions, in conclusions reached through the association's collaborative summary disposition process, found that Charleston Southern improperly certified dozens of athletes in 12 sports to compete over multiple years, resulting in ineligible athletes competing. The university blamed its poor accounting procedures on inadequate funding, which the infractions panel said could not be used to justify lack of compliance with a "basic requirement."
The NCAA fined the university $5,000 and required it to reduce the number of equivalent football scholarships it provides by a total of six in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years.
