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Arkansas adds infractions, limits scholarships

By DOUGLAS PILS
Associated Press Writer
July 20, 2002

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has extended scholarship penalties for two years after acknowledging to the NCAA that a booster's overpayment to players he employed was more serious than previously stated.

A report compiled by the university and the NCAA enforcement staff said violations, earlier characterized as minor, should now be considered major when taken collectively, athletic department spokesman Kevin Trainor said Saturday.

As a result, the university is to extend football scholarship penalties from two years to four years. The university will also impose one year of sanctions in basketball. Originally, there was no penalty for the basketball team.

The university loses eight football scholarships when the sanction period ends in the 2004-05 academic year. The team will be limited to 83 scholarships through the 2004 season.

The school will lose a basketball scholarship in 2003-04, and reduce from 12 to eight the number of recruit visits for 2002-03.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions will rule during its August meeting whether to accept Arkansas' case through summary disposition. The committee will not rule on whether to accept the university's penalties until its October meeting.

According to the report, 20 athletes who worked for booster Ted Harod's J&H Truck Service in Dallas were overpaid $4,300 from 1994-99, an average of just over $200 each.

University and NCAA enforcement officials concluded that athletic director Frank Broyles, a friend of Harrod, broke no rules.

Broyles has, through an attorney, denied he committed any infractions. No Arkansas coaches and no university administrators were found to have committed violations.

The report said company record keeping problems led to some overpayments and that some checks were issued without time sheets to log the hours the athletes worked.

Broyles said he would withhold comment until the NCAA Infractions Committee completes a final review of the report and issues a ruling.

I don't think the football penalties will hurt as much as the basketball penalty. Two scholarships a year isn't all that much in football.

It still isnt going to help the athletic program at all, last thing anybody needs is for prospects to be worried about the school going on probation and not being able to compete in the postseason.

But, I do not disagree with the pentalties and the pentalties do not outweigh the infractions.