Big Q covers the latest on your LSU Football Tigers. In this report we cover the NCAA on Thursday issued its ruling regarding several recruiting violations by LSU’s men’s basketball and football teams.
Both programs received a lump penalty — three years probation — because they went through the NCAA’s Independent Resolution Panel. Neither was hit with a lack of institutional control charge or postseason ban.
Former basketball coach Will Wade, now at McNeese, also received a 10-game suspension and two-year show-cause penalty. But the person most impacted in the process is former LSU football coach Les Miles, who has not been associated with the program since 2016.
As part of an attempt to mitigate NCAA penalties, LSU vacated 37 wins during Miles’ tenure. The NCAA fully accepted LSU football’s self-imposed penalty, among others, meaning the wins he accrued in those seasons were vacated (not forfeited). As a result, the NCAA officially recognizes LSU as having gone 0-14 from 2012 through 2015.
