The NCAA has announced their findings and the punishments for UL-Lafayette and former assistant coach David Saunders.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Ragin Cajuns football team will be under a two-year probationary period from January 12 of this year to January 11th, 2018. This was proposed by UL Lafayette.
Along with this, the institution will pay a $5,000 fine and reduce their scholarships by a sum of 11 over the course of the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years.
The Cajuns had vacated all of the wins including the New Orleans Bowl victory in 2011 themselves when the information was released in October 2015. Along with this, the Cajuns will have to vacate all wins from the 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons in which ineligible players participated. This not only applies to the record of the Cajuns, but to head coach Mark Hudspeth.
Former Cajuns assistant coach David Saunders also is being ordered to show cause to any NCAA institution he is hired to for the next eight years, one of the longest for a football coach in the history of the NCAA.
-Clint Domingue