Kansas basketball: 5 potential outcomes for Jayhawks IARP ruling today
Kansas basketball will receive its long-awaited infractions in the final IARP ruling today. These are five potential outcomes for the Jayhawks program.
The FBI opened an investigation on college basketball in 2016, and the Kansas Jayhawks have been at the forefront of them ever since. Alleged payments to the guardians of Josh Jackson, Billy Preston, and Silvio de Sousa have surfaced in their findings, meaning the program could face some monumental sanctions.
KU has acted somewhat accordingly with the NCAA, self-imposing a scholarship limit over the next three seasons and suspending Bill Self for the four opening games of 2022-23 in hopes of softening the blow for the actual punishment. LSU, Arizona, and others have received harsh penalties in the past.
Kansas is the final school that has not received a ruling in the case. The NCAA chose to utilize the IARP (Independent Accountability Resolution Process) to handle its infractions, though the organization has been so disorganized that it will cease to exist once KU receives its sanctions.
According to Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde, the university will learn its fate sometime today (Oct. 11). Alas, the six-year kerfuffle should come to a close if that report is true.
The men’s basketball program could face some hefty punishments should the hammer come down on Kansas in the upcoming hours. Therefore, we put together five possibilities for what could take place.