Florida State president T.K. Wetherell asked for Oct. 18, and he got Oct. 18. That’s the day FSU officials will meet with the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions in Indianapolis to discuss that minor disruption last year now known the world over simply as the “FSU academic misconduct scandal.’’

In case you wondered, Oct. 18 is a Saturday. The good news is that the Noles are off, so if FSU coach Bobby Bowden is required to attend, Jimbo Fisher won’t be making his head coaching debut that week. Anyway, here is short story running in tomorrow’s Tampa Tribune:

TALLAHASSEE—Florida State has received written notification that a tentative hearing before the NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions is scheduled for Oct. 18 in Indianapolis.

The hearing is to address the academic misconduct scandal that involved more than 50 student-athletes and made national headlines last fall. The football program was hit hardest, with more than 20 players implicated in the probe.

According to Coach Bobby Bowden, the Seminoles will open the season without at least six starters for the first three games and possibly without as many as 10 players on the two-deep roster.

FSU president T.K. Wetherell, who requested the Oct. 18 date in a letter to the NCAA on June 19, received a response from the Shepard C. Cooper, director of the infractions committee, on Tuesday notifying the school of the hearing. The meeting will take place before at least four members of the 10-member infractions committee. Former Miami athletic director Paul Dee, who retired last month but plans to remain involved with the NCAA, is one of the committee members.

Wetherell, athletic director Randy Spetman, compliance director Brian Battle, and possibly Bowden are expected to attend the hearing. FSU plays at N.C. State Oct. 16 and is open the weekend of the hearing.

According to the committee’s meeting guidelines posted on NCAA.org, “at a minimum, the following individuals from the involved institution should be in attendance: Chief executive officer, director of athletics, compliance director, faculty athletics representative, head coach of the involved sport(s), currently employed coaches or other officials “at risk.”