[buccaneer81]

Ben, I've seen this said several times. What does it mean? I'm not familiar with the term as it applies to a college.

The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. It is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive.

It has been implemented only five times:

The University of Kentucky basketball program for the 1952–53 season.

The basketball program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) for the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons

The Southern Methodist University football program for the 1987 and 1988 seasons.

The Division II men's soccer program at Morehouse College for the 2004 and 2005 seasons.

The Division III men's tennis program at MacMurray College for the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.

[dfwgator]

The thing is, shutting down SMU’s football program had little to no impact on the Dallas economy.....shutting down PSU’s football program will be absolutely devastating to the local economy there.

[RikaStrom]

Thank you both. I appreciate your help.