Hurricanes Lose Scholarships – NCAA Roundup For Oct. 23rd

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — University of Miami athletic director Blake James says the NCAA sanctions brought down against his program on Tuesday are fair but significant.

Miami's football team will lose nine scholarships and the men's basketball team will lose three, as part of the penalties the school was handed by the NCAA as the Nevin Shapiro booster scandal presumably drew to a close.

But for the first time since 2010, the football team will be permitted to appear in a postseason game.

The school will also serve three years' probation. Former men's basketball coach Frank Haith, now at Missouri, will sit out the first five games of his Tigers' season, and three former Miami assistant coaches were handed two-year show-cause bans.

Even though the NCAA said Miami lacked "institutional control" when it came to monitoring Shapiro, the university is accepting the decision and does not plan to appeal.

Miami's football team is off to a 6-0 start, and the school's ranking at No. 7 matches its highest since 2005.

Miami has already self-imposed sanctions on the football program that included sitting out two bowl games, last season's Atlantic Coast Conference title game and making reductions in recruiting.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Grambling State University's president says a nearly weeklong boycott by the Grambling football team has drawn awareness to the university's financial struggles.

President Frank Pogue has told the Louisiana state university system's board that he's using the national attention as a way to highlight campus academic and facility needs. He said the boycott drummed up interest from donors around the country.

University of Louisiana System President Sandra Woodley says Grambling's financial woes are the worst in the system.

Grambling, like all public colleges around Louisiana, has endured repeated budget cuts from the state since 2008. Tuition increases have only partially filled the gap.