Sports | University of Miami Miami Dodges Bowl Ban, but NCAA Yanks Scholarships Fallout from crazy booster scandal By Kevin Spak Posted Oct 22, 2013 10:49 AM CDT Copied Miami head coach Al Golden, rear, watches a drill during team practice, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) The University of Miami's football program will lose nine scholarships—three for each of the next three years—in retribution for the gifts that rogue booster and Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro showered on prospective players, the NCAA announced today. But it won't be banned from playing in bowl games, a possibility that had loomed over the school's 6-0 start, ESPN points out. Miami's basketball program will also lose three scholarships, and the entire athletic department will be on probation for three years. Former Miami basketball head coach Frank Haith will also be suspended for five games—even though he's currently coaching Missouri—and several former assistant coaches will face suspensions as well. The ruling wraps up a two-and-a-half year saga that began when Shapiro revealed that he'd given cash and jewelry to recruits, and paid for trips, prostitutes, and in one case even an abortion, on players' behalf. Eight players were suspended in connection with the scandal in 2011. Read These Next Hundreds of South Koreans were detained at a Georgia factory site. The story of a failed secret SEAL mission in North Korea. Royal who had an actual job dies at 92. Grandpa might want to look more closely next time. Report an error