LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT)—The NCAA says it has reached an agreement with the University of Kentucky regarding violations in the football and swimming programs.

According to the NCAA, “impermissible benefits” occurred in the football program, and rules were violated involving countable athletically related activities within the swimming program.

The NCAA says Kentucky agreed that the swimming program violations supported findings of a failure to monitor and head coach responsibility violations.

The agreed-upon violations involve at least 11 football student-athletes receiving payment for work not performed between spring 2021 and March 2022. Eight of the student-athletes went on to compete and receive actual and necessary expenses while ineligible. The NCAA enforcement staff and school agreed that no staff member in the athletics department 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.

In a statement from UK President Eli Capilouto, Capilouto says the NCAA sanctions imposed include two years of probation for the athletics department and vacating wins during the 2021 football season, including that season’s bowl game.

Additional agreed-upon violations involve the men’s and women’s swimming programs exceeding limits on countable athletically related activities when student-athletes were not provided with required days off and exceeded practice hours for nearly three years.

The school agreed that it failed to monitor its swimming and diving program and that the underlying violations demonstrated a violation of the head coach’s responsibility. The committee’s final decision—including potential violations and penalties for the former coach—is pending.

By separating the cases, the Division I Committee on Infractions publicly acknowledges the infractions case and permits the school to immediately begin serving penalties while awaiting the committee’s final decision on the remaining contested portion of the case.

That decision will include any findings and penalties for the former coach.

University of Kentucky Athletics released this statement about the negotiated resolution with the NCAA:

A panel of The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions has announced that it has approved a negotiated resolution between the NCAA’s enforcement staff and the University of Kentucky on violations in the football and swimming and diving programs, and the appropriate penalties for those violations. A former swimming and diving coach did not participate in the agreement. His portion of the case will be considered separately by the Committee on Infractions, after which it will release its full decision. The University is not permitted to comment further until the full decision is released.

This is a developing story.

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