LSU Football vacates all 2012-15  wins due to ineligible player stemming from NCAA sanctions

LSU football has vacated all of its wins, 37 in total, from 2012 to 2015. The school did this after receiving a notice of allegations from the NCAA. This came to light in the release from the Independent Resolution Panel, which was in relation to recruiting violations in the men’s basketball and football programs.

These wins are being vacated because former LSU offensive lineman Vadal Alexander was deemed ineligible throughout much of his career. As a four-year starter, he played in 50 games, only missing one in his career. That game he missed was a loss to Arkansas.

Alexander’s father was allegedly paid $180,150 by funds embezzled by John Paul Funes, the former head of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation. Reportedly, they were introduced in 2012 or 2013 by the LSU assistant athletic director for football operations. The panel also claimed that Funes offered Alexander’s mother a job at OLOL hospital and his father at the foundation. That was considered a severe Level I violation.

LSU received the notice of allegations in March 2022 and imposed the penalty at that time. However, with the final decision on penalties for the program being released, the self-imposed penalty is no longer considered confidential.

Les Miles was the head coach at LSU during the time of the violation. In that time, LSU had two 10-win seasons, as well as wins in the Outback and Texas Bowls.

“The institution did not become aware of, nor report, (Alexander’s) ineligibility to the NCAA until November 2018,” the case document stated, “and (Funes) continued to be a representative of athletics interests until October 1, 2020.”

Alexander was a permanent team captain for LSU in 2015 and was also named an All-SEC performer that season.

Former LSU basketball coach receives a show-cause penalty

Former LSU basketball coach Will Wade was the primary focus of the investigation into LSU athletics. He had previously been heard on an FBI wiretap talking about a “strong ass offer” that was made to a recruit, for which he had been suspended by the school, only to be reinstated and later fired once the school got its notice of allegations.

Wade, for his role in the scandal, received a two-year show-cause penalty. He will also be suspended for the first 10 games of the season with his new school, McNeese State.

Both the LSU football and men’s basketball teams were given three years of probation.