NCAA Basketball: Programs currently in danger of facing NCAA sanctions
By Bryan Mauro
NCAA Basketball program in trouble – Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas has been accused of being a team with dirty recruiting for a long time. Honestly, it doesn’t make a lot of sense for Kansas to recruit dirty. They have one of the more prestigious programs in the country and the game’s inventor was the school’s first coach. The Jayhawks don’t need to cheat to get recruits but here they are finding themselves immersed in one of the biggest scandals in the sport.
Kansas got hit the hardest of the schools who have received their notice so far. They have been given five level I allegations and been hit with the lack of institutional control. Those level I violations stem around that charge and stem around the impermissible benefits given to two players who attended Kansas in Silvio De Sousa and a player who was on the team but never participated Billy Preston. DeAndre Ayton who later committed to play at Arizona was also listed as one of the players who was recruited illegally and is the cause for one of the Level I violations.
Bill Self has been outspoken about his feelings on the NCAA. He has shown many emotions towards these violations most of them are apathetic in nature. Throughout this entire process, Self has been poking fun at the NCAA. He doesn’t care about the violations, and he especially doesn’t care that the NCAA has given Bill Self a head coach responsibility charge.
Which stems from him being culpable and responsible for everything that has happened in the basketball program. The Jayhawks have yet to get their sentencing yet but given how hard the NCAA came down on Oklahoma State it doesn’t look good for the Jayhawks.