BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Every year, construction begins on a new LSU athletic building to draw in recruits. Every LSU sporting event contains one, typically multiple, employees of the athletic department recording stats. Every season of every sport will get more than enough attention for fans and the NCAA.Only 11 miles north, it’s a complete reversal. In the same city as the Tigers, Southern University shows the other side of college athletics.
The one-year ban on Southern athletics from the NCAA expired Tuesday, with a group of NCAA officials re-evaluating the school’s progress on Thursday. The ban was for inadequate reporting of student-athletes’ Academic Progress Rates.
The Jaguars were essentially banned from postseason NCAA play because they could not finish and turn in paperwork on time. It’s not a sign of laziness or incompetence, but a lack of manpower behind the unfinished work.
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