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1989 uk basketball roster1/6/2024 In effect Kentucky basketball has been on the lam for four years, or since the Lexington Herald-Leader won a Pulitzer Prize for a 1985 investigation that exposed widespread corruption in the program, ranging from boosters' "$100 handshakes" with Wildcat stars to free meals for players and other unseemly perks. Other "mitigating factors" that helped stay Kentucky's execution were Roselle's extensive internal investigation his quick implementation of institutional controls over the basketball program the switching of Wildcat Lodge, the chalet of a players' dorm, from the aegis of the athletic department to the direct control of the university housing office the disassociation from the basketball program of a "representative of its athletics interests" (read: booster) who was involved in several violations and probably most significant, the removal of coach Eddie Sutton and his staff. "I don't think I've ever seen a higher level of cooperation," said NCAA associate executive director Steve Morgan, who announced the sanctions at an SRO press conference in Lexington. Even as Roselle was spending $356,675 in legal fees, according to university records, to defend his program-and predicting last week that Kentucky basketball was "going down the plumbing"-he was sipping from the cup of kindness, not to mention chugalugging from the keg of cooperation, with the NCAA. The reason they aren't has a lot to do with Kentucky president David Roselle's accepting the resignation of Cliff Hagan as athletic director and his hiring of Newton, the former Alabama and Vanderbilt coach and one of the game's cleanest of Mr. In the judgment of the committee.the violations found would justify such a penalty." "Because of the nature of the violations," reads the report, ".the committee seriously considered whether the regular-season schedule for the men's basketball program should be curtailed in whole or in part for one or two seasons of competition. But the seriousness of the violations and the scope of Kentucky's blatant disregard of the rules do not show up so much in what the NCAA did to Kentucky as in what it didn't do, as cited in paragraph 15 of the report on infractions. Of Kentucky's many sins, the two gravest were academic fraud and sending money, in effect, to a recruit. 2) bar its games from live TV during the 1989-90 season ģ) restrict the program to one more scholarship for next season-two have already been committed, to beings who obviously have been living on Mars-and three more for 1990-91 (Kentucky normally would have been allowed to grant six basketball scholarships for next season) Ĥ) order the school to return its share of receipts from the 1988 NCAA tournament, among other severe financial penalties (see box on page 31), and strike its two victories in the tournament from the record for deliberately using an ineligible player, forward Eric Manuel of Macon, Ga., who was then a freshman.
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