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Embattled Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins retired 12 months early Tuesday, following a year of controversy and embarrassment for both himself and the school.
Perkins, 65, said in June that he would retire in September 2011. Instead, he and chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced he was leaving immediately and didn't make themselves available to reporters to explain why.
Leaving a year ahead of schedule will not cost Perkins any money. The school said he will still get the approximately $2 million package he would have received by staying until September 2011.
"He came in at a time when some very unpopular decisions had to be made," said Self. "He had the backbone and the guts to do a lot of things that maybe a lot of people would not have had the backbone or the guts to do."