Louisville, Virginia Tech fined $25K by ACC for role in Wakeyleaks

We’re seeing more fallout from the Wakeyleaks situation, as Louisville and Virginia Tech have to pay up

This past week the entire college football world was wrapped up in the Wakeyleaks scandal involving former broadcaster Tommy Elrod at Wake Forest. Elrod was found to have been giving out information about the Demon Deacons team to a few opponents, two of them being the Louisville Cardinals and Virginia Tech Hokies.

After the scandal was revealed, the ACC had no choice but to step in, and now Louisville and Virginia Tech are paying the price. Following their investigation, the two programs have been fined $25,000 each for their part in all of this.

The investigation was pretty quick this week, as it didn’t take all that long for the conference to come down with the punishment. However, as you’ll probably see all over the internet, some might not consider this “punishment” at all.

When you think of it in the grand scheme of things, these two programs took information that could have benefited them on the football field against Wake Forest. In simpler terms, they readily accepted the chance to gain an unfair advantage. As “punishment” these programs are coughing up $25K, which to institutions like Louisville and Virginia Tech is mere pocket change that they scoff at.

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So, when you really think about it, were they punished at all? Probably not, but this is where the investigation led to for better or worse.

With this out of the way, the focus turns a little to Army, another program involved in this. They’re currently conducting their own investigation, so the fallout from this scandal is far from over.