Mizzou Football: NCAA penalties ban Tigers from postseason in 2019
By Ethan Lee
Mizzou football has been hit with NCAA penalties after alleged academic cheating issues regarding a tutor for the three programs. The baseball and softball teams have also been affected.
The Missouri Tigers probably aren’t big fans of the NCAA right now. Earlier today, it was announced that the NCAA intends to penalize he Missouri Tigers’ baseball, football, and softball programs following an investigation into the athletic department that began two years ago.
These penalties are a response to alleged academic actions that violated NCAA bylaws. The NCAA’s investigation concluded that “an athletics department tutor completed and provided Missouri student-athletes with academic work.”
So, basically, a tutor did work for various different athletes competing in these three sports.
Missouri will then be penalized with scholarship reductions, fines, recruiting restrictions, postseason bans, probation until 2022, and then a whole bunch of negative publicity on top of all of that.
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There happens to be some good news in all of this though.
It does look like newly acquired Mizzou quarterback Kelly Bryant intends to stay in Columbia in the wake of all of this. Despite the fact that the Tigers are being hit with sanctions and can’t play in a bowl game at the end of next season, it appears as if he will be staying with Mizzou.
But that’s probably the only good news to come out of all of this.
The entire situation is going to be a difficult one for Missouri to navigate and given that this directly and indirectly impacts the athletic department’s finances, there’s really not much to be happy about here. Missouri has to pay a $5,000 fine, which really isn’t all that much, but the Tigers then also have to cough up one percent of their budget for each of the baseball, softball, and football programs.
Following that, those Mizzou teams also have the aforementioned scholarship reductions, recruiting restrictions, and postseason bans.
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Those have a strong possibility of negatively impacting Missouri for the next few years, despite the fact that this punishment will only directly be in place for this next season.
The Missouri Tigers do have the potential to navigate all of this though. Mizzou will need to make sure that they’re careful to not violate any NCAA bylaws for the next few years and they should still be fine in the long-run. However, the next couple of seasons might be less than stellar for these three programs.