Lack of Institutional Control

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Steve Malin give rides, a few T-shirts, and $20 - and we turned outselves in using our system of institutional control that the NCAA would never have found out otherwise = 3 scholarships for 3 years (ND gets a 1 year 1 scholarship reduction when they didn't have that many to give for the Quarterback Club in this same year...


LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas avoided postseason bans on its football and basketball programs Thursday, but the NCAA added an extra year to the school's self-imposed two-year probation and cut additional scholarships.

Kansas had placed itself on 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 the penalty through Oct. 11, 2009.

"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.

The committee also cut three football and one men's basketball scholarship for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years. The school had proposed cutting one scholarship each 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 announcement comes eight weeks after a delegation that included football coach Mark Mangino, basketball coach Bill Self, Hemenway and Perkins met with the committee and answered 11 charges of wrongdoing.

The violations surfaced in July 2005, two years after Perkins succeeded Al Bohl as athletic director. The university began an internal probe that found minor violations from 1997-2003 in basketball and more serious ones in football.

The school admitted, among other things, to giving prospective football players academic advice and assistance, allowing them to use athletic department facilities to complete 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.

Of the 11 violations the NCAA considered, five came in football, three in men's basketball, one in women's basketball and one encompassed 26 secondary violations. The final one was the charge of lack of institutional control