Kentucky football, swimming programs committed NCAA rules violations

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The NCAA on Friday ruled Kentucky’s football and swimming programs committed violations.

The football violations centered on impermissible benefits, while the swimming infractions involved countable athletically related activities.

The university reached an agreement with the NCAA with regard to both programs’ improprieties.

The football violations involved at least 11 former players receiving payment for work they did not perform between spring 2021 and March 2022.

Eight of the players went on to appear in games “and receive actual and necessary expenses while ineligible,” the NCAA wrote. The organization also wrote that its enforcement staff and Kentucky agreed no athletics department staff member “knew or reasonably should have known about the payment for work not performed, and thus the violations involving the football program did not provide additional support for the agreed-upon failure-to-monitor violation.”

As part of their agreement with the NCAA, the Wildcats were fined and placed on probation for two years. The football program also will have to vacate the records of games in which the ineligible players participated.

As a result, Kentucky will vacate all of its victories from the 2021 campaign, when it won 10 games in a season for only the fourth time in school history.

Per the NCAA release, “Kentucky agreed that the violations in the swimming program supported findings of a failure to monitor and head coach responsibility violations.” An unnamed former coach did not take part in Friday’s agreement; that portion of the case will be handled separately by the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions, which will release its full decision at a later date.

The men’s and women’s swimming program’s violations entailed “exceeding limits on countable athletically related activities,” the NCAA wrote….

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Publish date : 2024-08-03 00:24:31

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