Adding on to the pile of Florida State’s, shall we say, woeful year is the NCAA. The NCAA wants the 1st District Court of Appeals to reconsider their ruling, which kept the University from releasing documents on an academic cheating scandal at FSU.

The college athletics organization also Wednesday asked the 1st District Court of Appeal to certify the case to the Florida Supreme Court as a question of great public importance if it denies a rehearing.

Sounds like they know something we don’t know. I don’t know about you, but I’m not naive enough to believe that every college athlete has earned the academic right to be at their respective university, especially in the sport of football where winning has been placed on a far higher plateau than reading books or any of that other boring, college nonsense. If FSU were to be caught up in a cheating scandal, the shit would hit the fan and the fan in this case is Coach Bowden.

They concern a proposal to take wins away from coaches and athletes. That includes football coach Bobby Bowden, who could lose 14 victories — diminishing his chances of overtaking Penn State’s Joe Paterno as major college football’s winningest coach.

Basically if the documents get released, Bowden’s career is over. He’s presumably stayed on as the head coach of Florida State this long, despite troubling years of late, in order to take the crown from the still-coaching-a-winning-team Paterno, and all hope will essentially be lost for Seminole coach.

Me… I like my sports fair. I like my baseball players without steroids and I like my college sports without academic cheaters, so I’m all for releasing the documents. These kids have to earn the right to be on the field through the classroom. If they want to be uneducated, buffoons, then just assure them that the NFL is only a few years away.

[via ESPN]