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Kansas gets sited for lack of institutional control

The time has come.
At 3PM today, the NCAA Committee on Infractions will hold a press conference to announce their decisions regarding penalties for the violations uncovered at Kansas.

Just to review:
There are 11 major infractions, and they include a claim of "lack of institutional control" and involve academic fraud, phoney test results, impermissable benefits, over $5000 given by boosters to basketball players, and more.

But this is KANSAS for gosh sakes, and don't get your hopes up that they might actually get some significant type of penalty.
I suspect they will lose a football scholarship or two, and maybe one of their deep assistant coaches might even have to attend a compliance seminar. Mark my word, they will get off incredibly easy.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/oct/12/ncaa_decide_kus_fate_today/?football
 
collegehoopjunkie said:
The time has come.
At 3PM today, the NCAA Committee on Infractions will hold a press conference to announce their decisions regarding penalties for the violations uncovered at Kansas.

Just to review:
There are 11 major infractions, and they include a claim of "lack of institutional control" and involve academic fraud, phoney test results, impermissable benefits, over $5000 given by boosters to basketball players, and more.

But this is KANSAS for gosh sakes, and don't get your hopes up that they might actually get some significant type of penalty.
I suspect they will lose a football scholarship or two, and maybe one of their deep assistant coaches might even have to attend a compliance seminar. Mark my word, they will get off incredibly easy.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/oct/12/ncaa_decide_kus_fate_today/?football
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I'm with you on this one. KU, especially the basketball program, will receive little or no penalties.
 
Here is the rumor circulating on the Jayhawk premium board.
Basketball will lose one scholarship, and football will lose two.
No post season bans, and really not much else.
We are only about 20 minutes from the press conference.
 
Bingo--

Who said KU would get off easy?? You were dead right.

The NCAA, despite finding Kansas GUILTY of all 11 of the violations --
even the one for LACK OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL!!
and the one for giving thousands of dollars, clothes, and other goods to players.....(they never even mentioned hiring all their recruit's parents for $100,000!)
has decided to heap
the following whopping penalty on the poor little Jayhawks:

--no postseason ban on any sport, even the ones caught cheating by paying thousdands of bucks to recruits and giving them the test answers so they can stay eligible.

--ONLY ONE year of probation was added by the NCAA, just a year, kinda the penalty BU got for the kids getting a few hundred bucks inadvertently overpaid.

--the basketball team loses one scholarship and the football team (which awards 80 free rides) loses just three.

--NOT ONE OTHER PENALTY, not even sending somebody to a compliance course!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2623000
 
Pathetic.

Makes me wanna puke.

But then again... as much hatred Illini fans have for Self, I am chuckling just a little inside.
 
Just a short summary of some of the things Kansas was proven to have done in violation of NCAA rules.

In the report, NCAA officials said that the following violations took place in the programs from 1997 to 2003.

???‚¬??? A booster provided cash, transportation, clothing and other benefits totaling more than $5,000 to two unidentified men???‚¬?„?s basketball players (but the players are known to be Darnell Jackson and JR Giddens), $4,500 of which went to one athlete. The NCAA ordered the booster, also
unidentified (but known to be Oklahoma City millionaire Don Davis) in the committee???‚¬?„?s report, to be disassociated from the Jayhawk program for four years.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/apr/22/ncaa_kansas_lost_institutional_control/
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2006/aug/13/ncaa_hearing_serious_business/

???‚¬??? Two boosters provided cash payments from $50 to $300 during the period to athletes after the players had finished their eligibility. Both boosters claimed that school officials, including the athletic director and
basketball coach had authorized the payments. Al Bohl was Jayhawks athletic director at the time and Roy Williams was the men???‚¬?„?s basketball coach.

???‚¬??? In football, seven junior-college transfers were brought to campus for voluntary workouts and correspondence courses before being accepted at Kansas. A graduate assistant football coach also was found to have provided two recruits answers to a test taken in a correspondence course necessary to become eligible.
 
Why just a short summary?
I will provide a thorough summary, and a listing of all of Kansas' NUMEROUS past NCAA violations and sanctions, even though the penalties Kansas has gotten for each of them were almost humorously mild!!
They make Bradley look like they're squeaky clean.

Infractions:
The 11 alleged infractions
A rundown of the 11 allegations that will be the main topic of today???‚¬?„?s NCAA hearing:

1. Academic fraud

Sport: Football
NCAA bylaws: 10.1 and 10.1-(b)
The gist: One of KU???‚¬?„?s graduate football assistants ???‚¬?“arranged academic fraud???‚¬?? for a junior-college transfer looking to gain eligibility for the 2003 season. The unnamed athlete was taking a Brigham Young University correspondence course, and the Kansas G.A. arranged for the athlete to take the test without a permissible proctor.

2. Academic fraud
Sport: Football
NCAA bylaws: 10.1 and 10.1-(b)
The gist: A KU graduate football assistant ???‚¬?“arranged academic fraud???‚¬?? for two juco transfers looking to gain eligibility in 2003 by helping with answers to a Geology 101 test while the athletes took the test in the GA???‚¬?„?s dorm room.

3. Impermissible assistance
Sport: Football
NCAA bylaws: 13.2.1 and 13.2.7
The gist: KU football staff members, as well as student-athlete support services staff members, are alleged to have helped seven incoming football players gain eligibility in 2003. This was done through use of facilities, setting up proctors, transportation assistance and training table meals. Since the athletes were not yet eligibile to play at KU and weren???‚¬?„?t enrolled at KU, they weren???‚¬?„?t supposed to receive any such help from the university.

4. Impermissisble gifts
Sport: Football
NCAA bylaws: 13.2.1, 13.2.2-(b) and 16.11.2.1
The gist: Former KU football assistant Tyrone Dixon provided three articles of clothing to KU recruit Monroe Weekley during a recruiting visit. Later, Dixon gave Weekley 16 collared shirts so that Weekley, by this point a member of the team, could be in compliance with the football team???‚¬?„?s dress code.

5. Impermissible off-campus contact
Sport: Football
NCAA bylaw: 11.7.2.2 and 13.1.2.3
The gist: Between November 2003 and December 2004, graduate football assistants transported prospective players from KU???‚¬?„?s campus to the prospect???‚¬?„?s home ???‚¬?“subsequent to their official paid visits.???‚¬?? Two examples were cited.

6. Improper benefits
Sport: Men???‚¬?„?s basketball
NCAA bylaw: 13.2.1, 13.2.2-(b), 13.2.2-(d), 13.2.2-(h), 13.6.4, 13.7.2.4, 16.11.2.1, 16.11.2.3-(a) and 16.11.2.3-(c)
The gist: KU booster Don Davis provided transportation, money and other benefits to current KU player Darnell Jackson and members of his family between 2003 and 2005. The total sum of the benefits totaled about $5,000. Jackson already has served a nine-game suspension.

7. Improper benefits
Sport: Men???‚¬?„?s basketball
NCAA bylaws: 16.11.2.1 and 16.11.2.3-(c)
The gist: KU booster Don Davis provided transportation and meals to former KU player J.R Giddens between 2003 and 2005. Among other things, Davis is accused of driving Giddens to Wichita to see a doctor about a leg injury in the summer of ???‚¬??05. Giddens was stabbed in the calf during the infamous Moon Bar fight in May 2005.

8. Improper benefits
Sport: Men???‚¬?„?s basketball
NCAA bylaw: 16.11.2.1
The gist: At least three KU boosters ???‚¬??? Dana Anderson, Joan Edwards and Bernard Morgan ???‚¬??? were said to have provided men???‚¬?„?s basketball players graduation gifts between 1988 and 2004 ranging from $25 to $400 in cash, as well as lifetime alumni association memberships and men???‚¬?„?s suits. All gifts were given to players who had exhausted their eligibilities.

9. Impermissible transportation
Sport: Women???‚¬?„?s basketball
NCAA bylaw: 13.2.1
The gist: Former women???‚¬?„?s assistant coach Tim Eatman provided improper transportation for a player from Naismith Hall so the player could take a standardized test.

10. Secondary violations
Sport: Baseball, football, soccer, men???‚¬?„?s basketball, women???‚¬?„?s basketball, track and field, rowing, tennis, men???‚¬?„?s golf.
NCAA bylaws: 13.1.2.1, 13.2.1, 13.6.2.2, 13.7.2, 13.7.5.1, 13.7.5.1.1, 13.7.5.5, 13.7.6, 13.8.2.1.1, 13.9.1, 16.02.2, 16.5.2, 17.12.8.1.2.1
The gist: A lumping of 26 minor violations commited across the department, such as the athletic department mistakenly paying for an in-room movie for a recruit during her paid visit.

11. Lack of institutional control
Sport: Athletic department
NCAA constitution: 2.1.1, 2.8.1 and 6.01.1
The gist: The NCAA alleges KU failed to maintain institutional control between 1997 and 2003, and cited compliance shortcomings, a failure to report violations in a timely manner, failing to provide rules education and failing to monitor activities of recruits who lived on campus.



Past record of NCAA violations:

1988- massive penalties under coach Larry Brown for extra benefits and lots of other crooked stuff.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/1988/nov/08/ncaa_penalty_hits_ku_hard/

1983- almost 3 dozen major violations (mostly football) and yet pretty mild penalties.
The penalties were admittedly mild because:
"KU???‚¬?„?s football program has not been successful in recent years"
(in other words, they cheated but since they were still lousy, then the NCAA went easy on them!)
http://www2.kusports.com/news/1983/dec/01/long_wait_ends_ncaa_announces_kansas_football_pena/

1972- a "stiff one year probation" for widespread academic fraud and allowing ineligible players to play in games by substituting fake test scores.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/1972/aug/19/ncaa_socks_jayhawks/

1960- two years of probation for illegal recruiting practices and gobs of extra benefits, including:
"provided former basketball star Wilt Chamberlain with a 1956 Oldsmobile convertible while he was at KU".
http://www2.kusports.com/news/1960/oct/27/zealous_ku_alumni_cause_school_be_ncaa_carpet/

1956- very, very mild penalties for big time recruiting violations which included extra benefits, and cash given by boosters to lure recruits.
http://www2.kusports.com/news/1956/may/02/probation_move_ku_doesnt_hamper_activity/
 
Nice recap.
I went to the Kansas board to see what's being said, and there is not one word, not one post, not one discussion topic about the Kansas penalties.
The board is all lit up with Gordon to Indiana and what the illiniboard is saying about it, but their moderator must be banning all talk about the sanctions as if they don't exist. Weird.
 
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