NCAA finds Kansas guilty of violations

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The Kansas athletic department "demonstrated a failure to exert appropriate institutional control" over a six-year period that led to dozens of rule violations, the NCAA said in a document released Friday by the school.

Besides that allegation, however, the findings largely mirrored what the university had reported to the NCAA last June. In the self-report, Kansas had admitted violations in its football and men's and women's basketball programs and said it was placing its athletic department on two years' probation.

"Since we have worked closely with the NCAA throughout this process, nothing in these pages surprises us," athletic director Lew Perkins told reporters during a news conference Friday.

Perkins said university officials will meet with the NCAA on Aug. 13 to discuss the violations, after which the regulating body will determine whether additional punishment is required.

Perkins ordered the internal review shortly after being named athletic director in June 2003.

Most of the football violations centered around coaching assistants arranging test help for prospective students, which the NCAA termed "academic fraud."

The NCAA agreed three boosters violated rules by providing gifts to men's basketball players who had exhausted their eligibility. University officials said last year that former basketball coach Roy Williams approved the gifts.

The report also added violations surrounding Kansas forward Darnell Jackson, who received thousands of dollars in gifts, cash and other assistance from Don Davis, a booster living in Jackson's hometown of Oklahoma City. The university discovered the violations last summer and agreed to suspend Jackson for the first nine games of last season.