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KU avoids postseason bans
NCAA extends probation, cuts additional scholarships
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas avoided postseason bans on its football and basketball programs Thursday, but the NCAA extended the school's self-imposed probation through October 2009 and made more severe scholarship cuts than the school had hoped.
Kansas had placed itself on two years probation as a result of an investigation into its athletic program by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. But the committee, finding a lack of institutional control, extended that to three years, beginning Thursday and running through Oct. 11, 2009.
Among the most serious findings was that a former football graduate assistant provided test answers to two prospective junior college transfers, who were taking a correspondence course exam in his dorm room. Committee member Gene Marsh said in a conference call with reporters that the investigation found the academic fraud happened without coach Mark Mangino's knowledge.
The committee also found that a basketball booster, with whom the university has since severed ties, provided improper benefits to two players, one of whom was a recruit when the relationship began.
And, the report said, a former athletic director understaffed the university's compliance office and told the school's compliance director, who at the time was juggling that duty with those of the senior woman administrator,
"Compliance doesn't sell tickets."
The report does not name the former athletic director, but the remark and the lack of adequate compliance staffing took place while Al Bohl was in the position.
"The failure of the institution to adequately staff its compliance office, the failure of the compliance officer to adequately perform her duties and the complete breakdown of communication within the department of athletics demonstrated a lack of institutional control," the committee's report read in part.
However, Marsh praised current athletic director Lew Perkins for beefing up compliance and taking steps to report violations including cash payments to senior basketball players who had used up their eligibility.
"He should be recognized for his good and effective work since he came on in the summer of 2003," Marsh, a professor at the University of Alabama, told reporters. "As soon as he took the job, he pulled in outside help to identify the problem, to get at the violations and to deal with them."
The committee cut three football and one men's basketball scholarship for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years. The school had cut one scholarship last year in football and none in men's basketball, although it did cut women's basketball scholarships by two for the 2005-2006 school year.
The university scheduled a news conference for 4:30 p.m. with Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Perkins and outside counsel Rick Evrard.
The announcement came eight weeks after a delegation that included Mangino, basketball coach Bill Self, Hemenway and Perkins met with the committee at a Baltimore hotel and answered 11 charges of wrongdoing -- five in football, three in men's basketball, one in women's basketball, one encompassing 26 secondary violations and one charge of lack of institution control.
The violations surfaced in July 2005, two years after Perkins succeeded Bohl as athletic director. The university began an internal probe that violations in basketball and football.
The school admitted, among other things, to giving prospective football players academic advice and assistance, allowing them to use athletic department facilities to compete correspondence work and permitting them to share answers when completing online courses.
The school also said that under former men's basketball coach Roy Williams, "three representatives of the University's athletic interests" provided cash and clothing to graduating players who had exhausted their eligibility, while members of the women's basketball staff arranged for housing, transportation and the use of facilities for potential student-athletes.
Kansas reported the violations and had hoped its own sanctions would be enough for the NCAA not to impose more.
KU avoids postseason bans
NCAA extends probation, cuts additional scholarships
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas avoided postseason bans on its football and basketball programs Thursday, but the NCAA extended the school's self-imposed probation through October 2009 and made more severe scholarship cuts than the school had hoped.
Kansas had placed itself on two years probation as a result of an investigation into its athletic program by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. But the committee, finding a lack of institutional control, extended that to three years, beginning Thursday and running through Oct. 11, 2009.
Among the most serious findings was that a former football graduate assistant provided test answers to two prospective junior college transfers, who were taking a correspondence course exam in his dorm room. Committee member Gene Marsh said in a conference call with reporters that the investigation found the academic fraud happened without coach Mark Mangino's knowledge.
The committee also found that a basketball booster, with whom the university has since severed ties, provided improper benefits to two players, one of whom was a recruit when the relationship began.
And, the report said, a former athletic director understaffed the university's compliance office and told the school's compliance director, who at the time was juggling that duty with those of the senior woman administrator,
"Compliance doesn't sell tickets."
The report does not name the former athletic director, but the remark and the lack of adequate compliance staffing took place while Al Bohl was in the position.
"The failure of the institution to adequately staff its compliance office, the failure of the compliance officer to adequately perform her duties and the complete breakdown of communication within the department of athletics demonstrated a lack of institutional control," the committee's report read in part.
However, Marsh praised current athletic director Lew Perkins for beefing up compliance and taking steps to report violations including cash payments to senior basketball players who had used up their eligibility.
"He should be recognized for his good and effective work since he came on in the summer of 2003," Marsh, a professor at the University of Alabama, told reporters. "As soon as he took the job, he pulled in outside help to identify the problem, to get at the violations and to deal with them."
The committee cut three football and one men's basketball scholarship for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years. The school had cut one scholarship last year in football and none in men's basketball, although it did cut women's basketball scholarships by two for the 2005-2006 school year.
The university scheduled a news conference for 4:30 p.m. with Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Perkins and outside counsel Rick Evrard.
The announcement came eight weeks after a delegation that included Mangino, basketball coach Bill Self, Hemenway and Perkins met with the committee at a Baltimore hotel and answered 11 charges of wrongdoing -- five in football, three in men's basketball, one in women's basketball, one encompassing 26 secondary violations and one charge of lack of institution control.
The violations surfaced in July 2005, two years after Perkins succeeded Bohl as athletic director. The university began an internal probe that violations in basketball and football.
The school admitted, among other things, to giving prospective football players academic advice and assistance, allowing them to use athletic department facilities to compete correspondence work and permitting them to share answers when completing online courses.
The school also said that under former men's basketball coach Roy Williams, "three representatives of the University's athletic interests" provided cash and clothing to graduating players who had exhausted their eligibility, while members of the women's basketball staff arranged for housing, transportation and the use of facilities for potential student-athletes.
Kansas reported the violations and had hoped its own sanctions would be enough for the NCAA not to impose more.
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From Dodd's blog:
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Irony hidden in NCAA's slap of KU's wrist
Kansas got off relatively lightly Thursday after the department was slapped with NCAA penalties in football and basketball.
Lack of institutional control, academic fraud. That sounds bad but only three scholarships were taken away in football and one in basketball for two years each.
The infractions occurred mostly during the administrations of ADs Bob Frederick and the incompetent Al Bohl. At one point, the compliance department -- of a Big 12 institution, mind you -- was staffed by one person.
When told she needed help, Bohl is quoted (although not directly in the NCAA report) as saying, "Compliance doesn't sell tickets." Upon his eventual firing, the unpredictable Bohl held a going away press conference on his driveway ala T.O.
There is a larger issue here. This might be the first time a school was guilty of lack of institutional control at the same time it was led by the sitting NCAA board chairman.
From 2002-2004 Kansas chancellor Bob Hemenway held that position, one of the most powerful in the NCAA. Before that, Hemenway was a member of the NCAA executive committee.
Neither infractions committee chair Gene Marsh or influential committee member Tom Yeager (also the Colonial Athletic Association commissioner) could remember such a situation ever occurring.
Hemenway is also the only common denominator in the NCAA investigation.
Sure, the ADs messed up. Compliance was a mess.
But the chancellor oversees athletics, hires the ADs who put the compliance people in place. The athletic department is the front porch to the world. Hemenway let it get awfully cluttered, if not rotted to the core.
His overseeing the NCAA's most powerful body while his athletic department failed was ironic at best. Shameful at worst.
sportsline.weblogs
Irony hidden in NCAA's slap of KU's wrist
Kansas got off relatively lightly Thursday after the department was slapped with NCAA penalties in football and basketball.
Lack of institutional control, academic fraud. That sounds bad but only three scholarships were taken away in football and one in basketball for two years each.
The infractions occurred mostly during the administrations of ADs Bob Frederick and the incompetent Al Bohl. At one point, the compliance department -- of a Big 12 institution, mind you -- was staffed by one person.
When told she needed help, Bohl is quoted (although not directly in the NCAA report) as saying, "Compliance doesn't sell tickets." Upon his eventual firing, the unpredictable Bohl held a going away press conference on his driveway ala T.O.
There is a larger issue here. This might be the first time a school was guilty of lack of institutional control at the same time it was led by the sitting NCAA board chairman.
From 2002-2004 Kansas chancellor Bob Hemenway held that position, one of the most powerful in the NCAA. Before that, Hemenway was a member of the NCAA executive committee.
Neither infractions committee chair Gene Marsh or influential committee member Tom Yeager (also the Colonial Athletic Association commissioner) could remember such a situation ever occurring.
Hemenway is also the only common denominator in the NCAA investigation.
Sure, the ADs messed up. Compliance was a mess.
But the chancellor oversees athletics, hires the ADs who put the compliance people in place. The athletic department is the front porch to the world. Hemenway let it get awfully cluttered, if not rotted to the core.
His overseeing the NCAA's most powerful body while his athletic department failed was ironic at best. Shameful at worst.
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