Oklahoma State: NCAA decision to deny appeal, uphold Cowboys’ postseason ban ‘unprecedented,’ system ‘broken’

“I’m disappointed, disgusted, appalled, frustrated — but somewhere in Indianapolis there’s a group of people celebrating,” Boynton said, in a reference to the NCAA.

So the punishment is you pay the money back, serve your suspension — which the kid did — and you move on.

Oklahoma State was originally given a postseason ban in the summer of 2020, but the Cowboys appealed the decision and were allowed to play while under appeal.

Oklahoma State was given a Level 1 violation involving former associate head coach Lamont Evans, who accepted between $18,150 and $22,000 in bribes to steer players from Oklahoma State and South Carolina, where he also spent time as an assistant coach, to certain agents and financial advisers.

We had a rogue employee carrying out actions that benefited him alone and he went to great lengths to assure his actions were undetectable.

Oklahoma State is the first school to be given a postseason ban by the NCAA because of the FBI investigations.

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