The NCAA recently released a report implicating Notre Dame in what’s being deemed as academic fraud.

A former Notre Dame student athletic trainer violated NCAA ethical conduct rules. She committed academic misconduct for two football players, and provided six other players with impermissible academic extra benefits.

During the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, the former trainer completed coursework for the student athletes. Multiple football players also committed academic misconduct individually. As such, one player was technically ineligible during the 2012-13 season, and two were ineligible for the following year.

The former student trainer also provided impermissible academic assistance to six additional football student-athletes, and provided the assistance while she attended the university and for a year after she graduated.

Notre Dame will have penalties for this situation — which includes one year of probation, a two-year show-cause order for the former trainer, a $5,000 fine, and a vacation of all records in which student-athletes participated while ineligible during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 football seasons.

While current Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly was overseeing the program during while these impermissible academic extra benefits were being done, the coach is taking no responsibility for any of the wrongdoings.

It should be noted that the quarterback of the 2012 Notre Dame team in question, Everett Golson, was suspended for the entire 2013 season for his own issues dealing with academic fraud.

The 2013 BCS National Championship Game in question occurred versus Alabama — in which the Crimson Tide won handily by a score of 42-14.