Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - No New Punishments: IARP Finally Rules on Kansas Jayhawks Basketball 6-Year-Old Case

Starting point is 00:00:00 Bonus Locked on Jayhawks here. The IARP ruling from the NCAA is officially out. The six-year case over Kansas basketball, stemming back to the 2017-2018 season, is finally done. Did Kansas get any other punishments? What came out of it? What's next for KU? We discussed that on this bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks.

Starting point is 00:00:20 You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm Derek Johnson. You can hear me as well, Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. on KLWN in Lawrence with Rock Chalk Sports Talk. Thanks for making Locked on Jayhawks your first listen every day. We're free and available wherever you get any of your podcasts. And on today's bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks,

Starting point is 00:00:54 we're talking about the IARP decision that came down. No added punishments for KU basketball. They had some self-imposed punishments last year. Those served as enough. And honestly, based on the report that came out, those might've actually been too much for what Kansas had to do. So we're going to talk about that. What came out, what this all means on this episode of the show. First, we were brought to you by Jace Medical. Empower yourself when you purchase a Jace case, providing you with a personal supply of five antibiotics that treat 50 plus infections. Get yours today at JaceMedical.com. That's J-A-S-E Medical.com. Okay, so here is the official ruling. In a decision announced Wednesday, the NCAA's Independent Accountability Review Process, IARP,

Starting point is 00:01:37 led to a downgrade in the severity of the five Level 1 allegations against the program, ultimately judging this a level two case. So each level one violation carried with it, it was like a one to three year postseason ban. Not a single one stuck as level one, dropped the entire thing down to level two, which is more minor violations. The independent resolution panel gave Kansas a three year probation with no effect on the program's postseason status. So there's the big one right there. There is no postseason ban for KU basketball. That was the big thing people were trying to avoid.

Starting point is 00:02:09 Even if you had to flirt with the idea of possibly losing the 2018 Final Four, losing wins that season, it was better than the alternative of having a postseason ban. Now, we'll get to that. There's not going to be any of that either, so even better for you. But no postseason ban. That's a huge win for all the players currently on the team that weren't a part of this. That's a huge win for the program, for the fans, for kind of everyone involved. And that's the big one here as part of all this. Now, as far as the three-year probation, you might be wondering what that is. Well,

Starting point is 00:02:35 it basically just means we're watching you. It basically just means that if you commit some order, other violation during the probation, you're basically already on strike two and your punishment will be more than if you were not on probation, right? It's like if you're on house arrest and then you commit another crime, that other crime you committed, the punishment is going to see it increase from what it normally would be, right? So let's get more into the case coming up here. First though, this episode of the show brought to you by Jace Medical. Don't be caught unprepared. The Jace case provides five life-saving antibiotics for emergency use. All it takes to get a Jace case is to fill out a simple online form.

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Starting point is 00:04:00 so level three is the the uh i guess least severe level one is the most severe so it got knocked down big time and no additional penalties and honestly based on the level three violation a four-game suspension might have been too much so you might have actually overdone it in that regard but you know not that it was a huge deal and you went undefeated in those games norm roberts to begin last season anyway assistant coach Townsend, who was suspended four games last year as well, also had his charges reduced from level one to a level two and a level three violation with no additional penalties. Neither coach faces a show cause order,

Starting point is 00:04:35 which could have been applicable for level one violations. So basically, bottom line here, it's been a long six years as we've been waiting for everything to kind of come out here. I mean, think about all the things that have changed over six years, maybe in your life or just along the way in KU basketball, KU football. Shoot, man, that was was that David Beatty? Was David Beatty the head coach of KU football when this stuff first started? Or was that Les Miles?

Starting point is 00:05:01 I don't know. I think that might have been David Beatty. That is insane to think about, right? It's been so long. So just to be done with this. I think that might have been David Beatty. That is insane to think about, right? It's been so long. So just to be done with this, I think, is good for everyone involved. Obviously, this means the IARP is no more. This was their final case as part of everything that stemmed with the FBI decision. So they're going to poof away, and the NCAA will probably come up with some new committee

Starting point is 00:05:19 or some other ways of looking into punishing teams in the future. I think this is more based on the other teams that this stuff kind of happened with as well they didn't want to punish the current kids on the rosters especially with it being five six years down the road and you know punish them by giving postseason bans I think you saw that but again with everything being knocked down to like level two level three violations that was never going to be a conversation of a postseason ban anyway and so the the self-imposed punishments KU did last year ended up being enough for them now one thing I didn't see is this and we're going to hear from a press conference later in the day um from all this is how things are maybe affected by the um scholarship production because that wasn't mentioned at all in this like is Kansas

Starting point is 00:06:01 uh still having to do the scholarship production from the self-imposed part of this or are they basically saying like you don't have to anymore or has that already been accepted because it was self-imposed um I I would assume they still have to do the uh the scholarship uh sanctions that they kind of imposed on themselves um but it's just the black cloud is no longer hanging over you and Bill Self is an unbelievable coach an unbelievable recruiter that he was still able to get a bunch of really good players to come to KU. Even during when all this stuff was happening, he was obviously able to still win a national championship. But now it opens up recruiting even more. And it opens up recruiting even more from a standpoint of, I think you started to see it this year because they already have, you know, a couple

Starting point is 00:06:41 top 30 recruits and they might add another top 50 guy here tonight with Rakeesh Passmore that Kansas, as much as they've still brought in really good recruits, like Jalen Wilson was a top 50 recruit. And some of these guys, the guys were top 10 recruits. The guys were top five recruits have been fewer and far between since really go back to like Josh Jackson. And I think part of that probably does have to do with this case that you've still got on good recruits, but you haven't competed for the, you know, Andrew Wiggins types of the world. And there's the argument to be had about what would you rather build your team with and

Starting point is 00:07:10 yada, yada, yada. But I think this opens you up even more that other coaches can no longer negatively recruit you and be like, yeah, but they have this NCAA case hanging over their head. Do you really want to go there? They can get a postseason man. Now you can no longer lie to recruits and negatively recruit that way like i know there are certain coaches who like to negatively recruit some don't i've heard like i was like scott drew like to negatively recruit who knows uh how much the truth there is to that but that's kind of what i've heard on on the recruiting trail and um that

Starting point is 00:07:36 now you can no longer use that against ku so it should open up recruiting even more but it's just it's just kind of a relief and it's time for a new era and it's time to move on and that's the biggest thing of all this and the fact that you didn't end up with a postseason ban was the biggest part of all this because that was the one thing you didn't want to go without you have the long NCAA tournament streak March Madness is so much fun especially when your team is in it and especially when your team is good and Kansas basketball each and every year you feel like you're competing for a national title you feel like you're competing for a one seed for a final four and even have one year where you don't even have a shot at it, where you wouldn't even have the motivation to get there. That would suck.

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Starting point is 00:09:12 a first deposit match up to $100 prize picks daily fantasy sports made easy. I'm finishing things up reflection on all this. The number one bottom line here, whether it's Kansas, whether it's any other school, fight the NCAA. Always fight the NCAA on this stuff for a multitude of reasons. Obviously, it took way longer than you could have hoped for, and you would have liked it to be done so much sooner. But fighting the NCAA, this was something that North Carolina did about a decade ago, and they got off without anything. This is something that Kansas did here. This is something that some of the other schools did that were part of this IRP

Starting point is 00:09:48 stuff from the FBI trials. It worked out to the benefit. And when you look at some of the schools that did not fight the NCAA, like Oklahoma state, they leaned into the NCAA and they had way less stuff going on than some of these other schools and root over. They got a one year post-season ban in a year that, I don't know, they had a pretty good team. But they ended up, you know, not having motivation.

Starting point is 00:10:10 And the record didn't look great. But, you know, maybe if you have that dangling in front of you, it's a little bit different. And, you know, Mike Boynton, their coach, like, talked afterwards. Like, we would have never let them into our house. We would have never, you know, I guess, I don't know, not fought them had we known what was going to happen and he has since come out and been like yeah like i it's not that i want these other

Starting point is 00:10:29 schools to have the same trouble we do because i would feel bad for the kids but like it's unfortunate for us so the moral of the story here always fight the ncaa and now that nil is a thing it's going to be a little bit harder i would imagine for ku or some of these other schools to be in the same position where you're even having to get to this point. Now, obviously, there are different loopholes and things that could get you in trouble with the NIL game, but there are more ways to legally, I guess, get through things now that you shouldn't have to worry about this anymore. And certainly, this is a new era in a good way for KU moving past this always fight the NCAA in their archaic ways.

Starting point is 00:11:06 That'll do it for this bonus episode of Locked on Jayhawks. We will maybe have another bonus episode for Keys Passmore picks KU tonight. We'll get to an episode tomorrow with Nick Schwert. We will also get to a KU Oklahoma State preview later in the week. This has been Locked on Jayhawks. You can find our show anywhere you get any of your podcasts. You can also like and subscribe to our show on YouTube. Have a great rest of your day.

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Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - No New Punishments: IARP Finally Rules on Kansas Jayhawks Basketball 6-Year-Old Case

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