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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Virginia Tech player fines reportedly went up to $1,600 for repeat offenses.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Richmond&amp;nbsp;Times-Dispatch&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;reported that a fine structure was displayed on a screen outside the team players' lounge Wednesday night, listing fines that varied from $10 for missing a team breakfast or tutoring session, $45 for missing class, and up to $100 for committing a personal foul penalty. Other fines were related to improper equipment, which was scaled up to a $1,600 penalty for a seventh offense and missing a team bowl trip for an eighth.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After&amp;nbsp;Hokies&amp;nbsp;defensive coordinator Bud Foster said Wednesday that coaches would explore fining players money out of their cost-of-attendance funds, Virginia Tech athletic director Whit&amp;nbsp;\u200BBabcock told the Associated Press that players would not be fined in such a manner.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Babcock said he \u201Chad no idea\u201D football players were receiving fines, adding that the practice has been discontinued.&amp;nbsp;\u201CNone of it can be or was associated with cost of attendance,\u201D Babcock told&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em &gt;Roanoke Times&lt;/em&gt; on Thursday, adding that he met with Foster, head coach Frank Beamer&amp;nbsp;and director of operations John Ballein&amp;nbsp;to discuss the disciplinary process.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;More: Babcock says players won't be fined cost-of-attendance funds&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n\u201CThere has been in place for a number of years, not to this extent, but for a number of years, a little bit of a, and I hate to use the word, but I can\u2019t use another one, but a fine system, disciplinary for our players and such,\u201D Babcock said. \u201CAnd I think it\u2019s come out of bowl type stuff. So I was not aware that we were doing that. It\u2019s not against NCAA rules. It\u2019s probably more prevalent than people think, but I was not aware of it.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another screen reportedly listed players that had currently been fined, totaling $330 in penalties among five players. Wednesday night, a spokesman said no student-athletes had been \u201Crelieved of any money\u201D under the system for this coming school year.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;i&gt;Jeremy Woo&lt;/i&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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