NCAA throws book at USC

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This isn’t about Washington State, per se, but it may have a big affect on the school’s football program down the road. The NCAA’s ruling on USC was officially announced today. Here’s the link , which gives you the gist of the investigation’s findings along with the whole report, if you want to read it. The key elements for football: a loss of 10 scholarships a year for three years (no more than 75 players on scholarship for those years, and no more than 15 initials); a two-year bowl ban; and forfeiture of games won during the Reggie Bush era. There are also scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions in men’s basketball, wins forfeited in men’s basketball and women’s tennis and four years of probation for the school.