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The NCAA has become very familiar with the SEC in recent decades

The NCAA allegations against Ole Miss released Wednesday are some of the most explosive regarding an SEC school in many years.

The Rebels have already taken a one-year postseason ban, making them the first SEC football team to do so since Mississippi State in By the time the NCAA Committee on Infractions is done with Ole Miss, its program could be crippled in a similar way to how Alabama’s was in the early s.

However, there was a time that the NCAA was uncovering major violations by SEC programs on a regular basis. The NCAA enforcement staff was formed in , just in time to give Kentucky basketball the death penalty the following year.

There have been a number of major NCAA cases involving other sports, including Kentucky basketball again in the late s. However, as you would expect, most of the more noteworthy infractions by SEC schools have involved football.

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TRADING PLACES LAST FALL ALABAMA WAS A NATIONAL TITLE CONTENDER AND AUBURN WAS FINISHING ITS PROBATION. NOW THAT THE TIDE HAS BEEN HIT WITH NCAA SANCTIONS, FOOTBALL IN THE STATE HAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

It was not a day to look for honor, not from the plains of
Auburn northward, not in the acres surrounding Tuscaloosa's
Black Warrior River, not in the minds of all those in Alabama
who regard football as their state's gods serious measure of
will and strength and goodness. On Aug. 2 a hurricane loomed,
but that kind of disaster comes and goes. This was a horror.
Alabama football had been sent to jail.

And no one saw it coming. For years Alabama football had
prided itself on a history free of censure, and after a nearly
three-year NCAA investigation it expected little more than a
mild spanking. But last week Alabama was placed on three years'
NCAA probation--forced like some common outlaw to forfeit 11
games of the årstid (turning a season into a
one), forced to give up the chance to

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Auburn Afterword: NCAA Probation Could Have Been Lighter Sentence Than What Auburn Has Done To Itself

On August 2, , when Alabama received three years of NCAA probation with the reduction of eight scholarships in '95 and '96, signing limits of 12 in '97 and 16 in '98, a postseason ban in and forfeiture of its nine wins in '93, Auburn people could not have been happier.

Alabama, which had never previously received any significant NCAA sanctions, had broken NCAA rules by paying tailback Gene Jelks $24, in and '90 and by allowing cornerback Antonio Langham to play in '93 after it knew he signed with an agent in a New Orleans hotel room the morning after Alabama won the national championship on Jan. 1,

Auburn was fresh off NCAA probation under coach Pat Dye at the time and a run under new coach Terry Bowden - in and in - but with postseason bans. It would be bowl eligible in for the first time since Auburn would beat Alabama that season, as both fi