LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Kentucky has reached an agreement with NCAA enforcement staff after officials reported that violations were found within the football and swimming programs including findings that football student-athletes received payment for “work not performed.”
A press release from the NCAA detailed that along with the discovered violations, the appropriate penalties for those violations have also been reached.
Among violations found, the release noted that at least 11 football student-athletes received payment for work not performed between spring 2021 and March 2022. Further, the release said that “eight of the student-athletes went on to compete and receive actual and necessary expenses while ineligible.”
However, a failure-to-monitor violation was not reached as officials agreed that no staff members in the athletic department “knew or reasonably should have known,” about the payment violation, NCAA reported.
In addition, agreed-upon violations also involve the men’s and women’s swimming program with officials …