Congrats to Eddie Robinson

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He is now once again the most winning coach in DI football history.


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vols-1 said:
I thought Grambling was D2? John Gagliardi
Is the winningest college football coach.
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Maybe you should read the articles you post:


Grambling Is Put on Probation
By FRANK LITSKY
Published: August 01, 1997
For 56 years, Eddie Robinson has been the football coach at Grambling State University in Louisiana, and his 405 victories are the most of any college coach in history. Yesterday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association placed Grambling on two years' probation for violations by Robinson, his son Eddie Robinson Jr. and other coaches at the college.

The N.C.A.A. cited infractions in football, men's basketball and women's basketball. They included illegal recruiting, out-of-season practices, the use of academically ineligible players and a lack of institutional control.

Among the football violations were impermissible tryouts and improper talks with prospective transfer athletes. In men's basketball, a player was allowed to play in five games in 1993 even though he did not complete 24 credit hours the previous year, as N.C.A.A. rules require. In women's basketball, a player was allowed to practice and receive scholarship money during the 1993-94 and 1995-96 seasons even though her American College Testing scores had been invalidated.

When the N.C.A.A. notified Grambling of the infractions, the college started an investigation. In a 254-page response to the N.C.A.A., the college denied many of the charges. Still, the N.C.A.A. called the violations ''major.'' Grambling assessed some penalties on itself. The major penalties came from the N.C.A.A.'s Committee on Infractions.


The committee allowed Grambling football fewer recruiting visits this year and next. The women's basketball team was ordered to forfeit games in which the ineligible player played. Robinson, 78, was told to take part in an ''intensive rules review'' with Grambling's faculty athletics representative.

David Swank, the N.C.A.A. committee chairman and a University of Oklahoma law professor, said the violations ''were most probably due to a lack of knowledge rather than willful violation of the rules.''

Grambling, a Division I-AA school in football, is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Last winter, Robinson resisted attempts by Grambling officials to force him out, although he has agreed to quit after this season. Robinson was out of town yesterday, but his son, who is the quarterbacks and receivers coach, said:

''I've always felt the N.C.A.A. dealt fairly with me from the start. I didn't think the N.C.A.A. was our problem. Our problem was what someone told the N.C.A.A. It's the N.C.A.A.'s job to investigate.''
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