Alabama State University, in Montgomery, Ala., has received notice from the NCAA of 668 violations in four sports.

Nearly 500 of the violations stem from ineligible football players being allowed to work out in the off season and 40 involve grades changed for football players without the knowledge of the instructors.

The most serious violation is for the university’s lack of institutional control, including failure to train coaches on rules, failure to monitor the eligibility and advancement of players and poor record keeping.

The NCAA investigators must have been stopping over in Montgomery quite a few times when driving back and forth between Tuscaloosa and Auburn to check up on Slick Nick and Wingnut.

But, according to the article, 668 violations is just the beginning:

In the notice, for example, the NCAA reported 42 ineligible athletes certified to compete by ASU’s compliance department. ASU must provide a list of games, practices and workouts participated in by the ineligible athletes. Each athlete could have participated in dozens of games, practices or workouts, and each instance would count as another violation.

“It could be 1,670 violations,” Jackson said.

As if playing football in Crampton Bowl was bad enough, now the Hornets might not get to play anywhere…ever again. Though, they’ll probably avoid the death penalty considering the lessons learned from the SMU ordeal in the ’80′s. It looks like it’s time to call up Scott Bakula, Kathy Ireland, and Sinbad (we would assume Sinbad is available as we haven’t seen him in quite a while), which may in fact lead to better season ticket sales for ASU. GO HORNETS!