How people can be so blind and unaware of what the true circumstances were, when KA was kept in the dark about everything Haith did, when hired, is mindboggling.
University of Missouri basketball team stripped of all wins for 2013-14 season
Donor gave player housing, money and meals
Team are currently banned from the postseason
After a 19-month investigation
(While KA was coach) conducted with the NCAA revealed major violations, Missouri’s basketball team will have to vacate all 23 of its wins in the 2013-14 season. The violations occurred under previous coach Frank Haith, who is now at Tulsa, but they have an impact on the current team.
Missouri are banned from the postseason this year, will lose one scholarship for next year and another sometime before 2018. So far, no punishment has been announced for Haith, who left for Tulsa before the start of last season, but his attorney on Wednesday said his client had “been cleared of any wrongdoing”.
This is the second time Missouri has been punished for Haith’s actions. The NCAA suspended him for five games in 2013-14 for violations during his time as the coach at Miami.
The list of violations at Missouri is lengthy and includes several Level I and II infractions, which the NCAA judges to be major. The most significant involves a donor paying three players for internships during which they did not work. Another donor also provided housing, iPads, transportation, meals and money for up to 11 players. In another major violation another donor provided reduced rates at a hotel and free rides on a boat. Missouri was also hit hard by the NCAA for not properly vetting the internship program.
The penalties were imposed by Missouri on themselves and will damage the efforts of the current coach, Kim Anderson, who has tried to rebuild the program after most of the team left when Haith took the Tulsa job. They could also affect the team’s pursuit of forward Michael Porter Jr, widely considered one of the top three recruits in the country for 2017. Porter’s father, Michael Sr, is an assistant on Missouri’s women’s team.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/13/university-of-missouri-basketball-team-stripped-of-all-wins-for-2013-14-season