Kentucky has been one of the better teams in the SEC the last few seasons, and they are always flying under the radar. When November rolls around, and you look at the standings, the Wildcats are floating around seven to eight wins and are getting ready to play in a decent bowl game. However, some of their success in past years is about to get erased from history books due to violations the program committed.
Kentucky Reaches A Settlement With The NCAA
On Friday, Kentucky and the NCAA settled infractions involving 11 football players who were paid for work they never did in 2021-2022.
The violations come from 11 players being paid for work they never did at the University of Kentucky Hospital between Spring 2021 and March 2022, and eight of the players went on to compete and receive actual and necessary expenses while ineligible, according to On3.com.
Kentucky has agreed to vacate ten wins from the 2021 season, which includes the Citrus Bowl win over Iowa.
The 2021 ten-win season was tied for the program’s best year in the 2000s; they also went 10-3 in the 2018 campaign.
Kentucky is going to have to recover from the two-year probation quickly. The SEC is about to get 100 times harder this season with Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference, and Georgia, the best team in college football, is only getting better. Alabama is still going to compete even without Nick Saban, Ole Miss is going to be great this year, Missouri is coming together, and Tennessee and LSU have the rosters to make a run.
The Wildcats can’t afford to let this violation get the better of the program, or they will fall far behind in a great conference, and all the work head coach Mark Stoops has done in recent years will go to waste.
