The LSU has banned Browns open recipient Odell Beckham Jr. from the team’s amenities for two years, as well as scholarship cuts and self-imposed recruitment restrictions, while awaiting possible NCAA action in the event of violations.
The movements were first reported through SI. com and displayed through the USA TODAY network.
Beckham was criticized for handing out $2,000 in money at the birthday party after the Tigers’ 42-25 victory over Clemson in the national championship game last January.
Beckham’s movements were among the least serious crimes the school has admitted. According to the report, LSU first claimed that the cash was fake, but the school had to replace positions after Tigers Quarterback Joe Burrow misdirected him in an interview.
In addition to Beckham’s offense, bills admitted from a retirement from whom he misused a local hospital budget and a recruitment touch violation in 2019 through coach Ed Ogeron.
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The resolution is a component of self-imposed sanctions through the athletic breakdown of the university before potentially more difficult NCAA sanctions. LSU gives up 8 football scholarships for two years.
“LSU has worked proactively and in cooperation with the NCAA to identify and self-inform any violations that have occurred as a component of our football program,” Robert Munson, LSU’s senior athletic director, told journalists. Sanctions are appropriate and we will continue to coordinate and cooperate with the NCAA on this issue. »
According to SI, an LSU retreat called John Paul Funes, who admitted to embezzleing more than $500,000 from a Baton Rouge hospital, gave the father of former offensive lineman Vadal Alexander $180,000 stolen so the NCAA called an “absent job. “
Alexander was a starter and guard at LSU from 2012 to 2015 under former head coach Les Miles before being selected in the seventh circular through Oakland in 2016.
LSU has tried to convince the NCAA to rule on violations of its football program from the alleged, much more publicized violations of its men’s basketball program with head coach Will Wade.
LSU’s basketball program has been the subject of an NCAA investigation for more than two years, but it has not yet won any allegations.
Contributor: Glenn Guilbeau, daily advertiser of Lafayette (La. ).