HOUSTON, Texas -- Former Texas Southern linebacker Dejuan Fulghum held out hope that the NCAA would have spared the program's Southwestern Athletic Conference championship and records from the 2010 season once the details of an investigation into major violations were made public.But when the NCAA handed down its ruling Tuesday morning, Fulghum, his teammates and former coaches were left with just memories of that season.
TSU's athletic department was placed on five years' probation for numerous infractions, including several committed by the football program under the watch of former coach Johnnie Cole, and a lack of institutional control. As a result, the school decided to vacate all team records for the 2006-07 and 2009-10 academic years in all sports and those from football and soccer in 2010, self-imposed penalties incorporated into the NCAA's broader punishment.
The ruling effectively eliminates any statistical existence of the Tigers' record-setting 2010 football season, which included a 9-3 finish, the program's first SWAC championship since 1968 and first outright conference title, first SWAC Western Division title and a No. 1 ranking in total defense among all Football Championship Subdivision programs.
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