KU's NCAA Sanctions

[KC//CRIMSON]

NCAA takes KU to the woodshed and hits 'em over the head with Balsa Wood.

Kansas University programs in football and men's basketball will lose scholarships as part of penalties announced today by the NCAA.

The penalties include:

• Three year's probation, ending Oct. 11, 2009.

• A loss of three football scholarships for 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years.

• The loss of one scholarship - from 13 to 12 - in men's basketball in 2007-08 and 2008-09. The program also loses eight official paid recruiting visits.

• The loss of two scholarships in women's basketball for 2005-06, and a reduction that year in the number of coaches who can recruit off-campus - from three to two. Those penalties were self-imposed by the university during that school year, but found by the NCAA to be "disproportionate" to the infraction.

The penalties were for violations that included more than $5,000 in benefits to two basketball players and their families; and improper benefits to seven football recruits, including test-taking assistance to two of those players.

Of the 11 violations, five were for football, three for men's basketball and one for women's basketball. The 10th was the bundling of 26 secondary violations, and No. 11 was a blanket violation alleging lack of institutional control.

Kansas self-imposed penalties for the violations it found - pretty much the same ones the NCAA found in its subsequent investigation - with hopes those would be considered enough in the eyes of the committee.

KU officials will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. to discuss their reaction. More as this story develops.

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/o...ens_basketball

[fwsooner22]

Wow that is tough..............

[mfosterftw]

Here's another article on this...


Friday, October 13, 2006

NCAA Punishes U. of Kansas for Improper Payments by Booster and Academic Cheating

By BRAD WOLVERTON

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has placed the University of Kansas on probation for three years after finding that a booster made more than $5,000 in improper payments to two men's basketball players, and that a former graduate-assistant football coach provided test answers to two football prospects.

As part of the university's penalty, the men's basketball and football teams face scholarship restrictions in the next two academic years, and the football team must limit the number of transfer students it accepts from two-year institutions. In addition, the booster is not allowed to associate with the athletics program for four years, and the former graduate-assistant coach may not work in college sports for three years without special permission.

According to a report by the NCAA's Division I Committee on Infractions, the most severe problems in the football program occurred in the summer of 2003, when seven recruits from two-year institutions moved to the campus to participate in voluntary workouts and to take correspondence courses to qualify for admission to the university. According to the report, the graduate-assistant coach gave two of those players answers to a test they were taking in a dormitory room.

The committee was also troubled by revelations that a booster had wined and dined a men's basketball recruit and the recruit's summer all-star coach during an NCAA tournament game in which Kansas appeared. After the player enrolled on the campus, the booster provided a $2,400 car loan to the player's mother.

Those violations came to light during a conversation the booster had with the university's chancellor, Robert E. Hemenway, at an alumni event.

Mr. Hemenway, the past chairman of the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors, asked the university's athletics director to investigate, and based on that inquiry, Kansas self-reported the problems to the NCAA.

Other men's basketball boosters also came under fire in the report. The committee found that two more donors had been making improper gifts of up to $400 each to graduating men's basketball players for nearly two decades.

Roy Williams, who was Kansas' head men's basketball coach for most of that period and is now head coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the committee that a compliance official had said that the gifts were not a violation. The compliance officer did not recall saying that, but the committee ruled that the violations -- and any penalties -- would not follow Mr. Williams to North Carolina.

Many of Kansas' problems surfaced because its compliance department was severely understaffed. The committee found that the former director of athletics repeatedly ignored calls by the chancellor and athletics officials to bolster the compliance program. At one point, one compliance officer oversaw more than 500 athletes and dozens of coaches.

"Compliance doesn't sell tickets," the former athletics director told the compliance director, according to the committee.

In part as a result of the former director's failure to add compliance staff members, the committee found that Kansas demonstrated a lack of institutional control.

Kansas does not plan to appeal the committee's ruling.

[Boomer.....]

So no NCAA tourny?

[mxATVracer10]

looks like they are just loosing some scholarships and that it will not effect the tourney....

[CobraKai]

I assume the players that received the money from boosters were kicked out of school and given one year suspensions by the NCAA?

[Frozen Sooner]

The players had already exhausted their eligibility when they received the money.

[skycat]

The players had already exhausted their eligibility when they received the money.

Except for the recruits that the boosters were giving improper benefits to.

I know it's hard to keep up, with the boatload of infractions between the football and basketball teams that all kind of got rolled into this.