Florida State on Thursday became the first school sanctioned by the NCAA for using Name, Image and Likeness payments as a recruiting inducement.

According to the NCAA, a Florida State booster offered a transfer prospect approximately $15,000 per month to sign with the Seminoles, which is illegal under NCAA rules. Sports Illustrated reported that the player in question was transferring from Georgia, but ultimately elected not to sign with the Seminoles.

Yahoo Sports reported that offensive coordinator Alex Atkins committed two Level II NCAA violations in April 2022 when he drove the prospect and his parents to a meeting with Florida State’s NIL collective, Rising Spear. Atkins will be suspended for the first three games of the 2024 season and will receive a two-year show-cause penalty.

Florida State head coach Mike Norvell is not charged with any violations and is not named in the report. Norvell’s name has surfaced among the early candidates to replace Nick Saban at Alabama.

Florida State must also disassociate the booster in question for a period of three years and must disassociate from the NIL collective for one year. That means the school cannot accept funding from Rising Spear and the collective cannot contribute to the athletic department (athletes can still accept NIL deals from the collective, however).

FSU was also hit with two years of probation and docked a total of five scholarships over the next two years. The school was also fined and had official visits, prospect communications and evaluation days cut during the current academic year.