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07.16.05: Kansas
acknowledges violations under Williams |
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07.15.05: Big
12, Big East divvy up Gator, Sun Bowl spots |
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07.14.05: South
Carolina fesses up to "major" infractions ...
Player nabbed for trying to pass funny money |
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07.13.05: Football
player dies after conditioning drills |
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07.12.05: BCS
rolls out new 'human poll' to plug AP void |
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07.11.05: Arsonist
sues school for barring him from team |
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07.10.05: Lyme
Disease sidelines FSU QB for 2005 season |
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07.09.05: Turnstiles
spun at record rate for Heels' title win ... Convicted 'Bama
booster denies 'buying' Means |
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07.08.05: Turnstiles
spun at record rate for Heels' title win ... Convicted 'Bama
booster denies 'buying' Means |
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07.07.05: Detour
through Athens, GA, leads Bryant to ECU ... BCS bowls
hopping on video replay bandwagon |
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News Nuggets, 07.17.05
NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
Previous Day Nuggets...
Next Day Nuggets...
Compiled from staff reports
and electronic dispatches
Williams unaware 'graduation gifts' prohibited
Roy Williams said he made a ``mistake''
when he approved gifts to graduating players and others who had used up
their eligibility while coach at Kansas, but denied there was any
intentional wrongdoing.
``We wanted a program that would
positively represent the university and the integrity of our basketball
program was always very important to me,'' Williams said in a statement
Saturday. ``I am deeply saddened to say there was evidently a mistake.''
Williams now the coach at North
Carolina issued the statement to respond to
a report by Kansas outlining NCAA rules
violations in its athletic department.
After conducting an internal review,
the school said Williams who won the national championship last April in
his second season in Chapel Hill approved payments made by three
representatives of the university's ``athletics interests.''
The school said Dana Anderson, Joan
Edwards and Bernard Morgan gave cash and clothing to graduating players and
others who had exhausted their eligibility. Payments went back as far as
1998, though no player was said to have received more than $400.
Williams said there was a
``communication problem'' with the school's compliance department, leading
him to believe a gift was permitted. The violation falls under the NCAA's
``extra benefit'' rule and specifies that once athletes enroll, they are
barred for life from receiving gifts from fans.
``I did not know the rule that once
you're a student-athlete, you are a student-athlete until death,'' Williams
said.
``Kansas never gained a recruiting or
competitive advantage the students had completed their eligibility and it
was seen as a graduation gift. I have never promised anything to a
prospective student-athlete, including playing time.''
The violations, which Kansas reported
to the NCAA last month, were among several involving three programs, ending
in 2003. The school responded to violations in the football and women's
basketball programs by reducing scholarships, but the men's basketball
violation will be addressed through extra education about the rules
regarding gifts.
No other sanctions against the program
are planned.
Williams won 418 games in 15 years at
Kansas before departing in 2003 for his alma mater, where he spent 10 years
as an assistant to Dean Smith.
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
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