NORFOLK, Virginia — The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference announced Monday evening that 21 student-athletes will be suspended from their season-opening football games for the 2015 season resulting from an altercation during the Norfolk State-South Carolina State game on Saturday in Orangeburg.The altercation, which was investigated by the conference office, concluded that 11 student-athletes from Norfolk State and 10 from South Carolina State violated the NCAA’s Football Rule 2, Section 32 as well as the MEAC’s constitution and bylaws regarding fighting.
Because the penalty for the violation for the MEAC supersedes that of the NCAA, in this instance, each student-athlete involved in the altercation will sit out the next game, accordign to the MEAC statement. As the altercation happened during the final game of the season, the penalty will be enforced for the first game of the 2015 football season.
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