The only violation that directly names Holtz is a secondary one in which the former coach talked to two prospects with a media member present.
The most serious violations were aimed at administrators and coaches no longer employed by the athletic department. The report found former senior associate athletic director for academic support services Tom Perry arranged for impermissible tutoring help during the summer of 2001 for two prospective players who were coming from two-year colleges. After the incident was self-reported that Sept. 11, Perry declared the athletes ineligible and made the players make restitution for the tutoring.
However, the report found the school's documents had not said the athletes played in two games while ineligible and understated the value of the help they received.
In another major violation, Perry was found to have "knowingly allowed the institution's director of compliance to prepare and submit an incomplete and inaccurate self-report of the tutoring incident to the conference office and to the NCAA, and created an environment that discouraged reporting of possible NCAA rules violation by his subordinates."
One witness told investigators that Perry had an "attitude of getting things done any way he could," the report said.
"The institution finds no excuse for the former administrator's conduct and agrees that ... [Perry] exhibited unethical behavior as defined by NCAA legislation," the report said.
Perry, who won a national award for his support program in 2003, left the university last year.
Also named in the findings was Pat Moorer, South Carolina's former director of strength and conditioning. The report said on some occasions between 1999 and 2002, some athletes thought offseason workouts "to be nonvoluntary."
While the report said Moorer was found to be the principal actor in the violation, it did not warrant an unethical conduct charge.
Another previously reported violation detailed contact between then-Gov. Jim Hodges, an ex-officio member of the school's board of trustees, and prospective recruits. Hodges said the transgression came when he was taking one of his sons to get ice cream and happened by a recruit. "It all seemed pretty innocent to me," Hodges said.
The NCAA report also said South Carolina showed "a lack of appropriate control of monitoring" in aspects of the department.