Kentucky football is set to vacate wins and be placed on a two-year probation for violations committed during the 2021 season per a report from the NCAA and the University of Kentucky released Friday.

In a release by University president Eli Capilouto it was reported that UK “self-reported” concerns regarding both the football and swim and dive programs, going on to negotiate a resolution with the NCAA.

The violations regarding the football program stem from athletes being paid for jobs they were not actively performing in a partnership with UK Healthcare. Capilouto emphasized that UK investigated and reported the incidents, along with imposing its own sanctions, once information became available.

“It is important to underscore that the NCAA strongly affirms the rigor of our rules compliance and reporting systems within athletics with respect to the football program,” Capilouto said in his statement.

The NCAA report detailed 11 football student-athletes who received payment for work not performed between Spring 2021 and March 2022 — though the names of the athletes were not released — which deemed all 11 ineligible for games they would go on to play in. It also detailed that eight of the athletes went on to compete and receive “actual and necessary expenses while ineligible.”

While no names would be released, head coach Mark Stoops had previously determined that several members of the team were held out of games in the Fall of 2022 for an off-the-field incident. These players included Jordan Wright and star running back Chris Rodriguez Jr., who played in every game of the 2021 season.

The report also stated that “No staff member in the athletics department knew or reasonably should have known about the payment for work not performed,” bringing on the lighter infraction of failure to monitor.

The infractions came with a fine to the athletic department, two year probation and the vacation of the entire 2021 football season.

The final of the infractions will perhaps be what stings most for UK fans, with the 2021 season being extremely successful for the football program as it secured a 10-win season and would go on to defeat Iowa in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl.

“For over a couple decades, we have worked really hard to make sure that our compliance and our integrity was at the highest level,” Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart said in a video created by UK Athletics. “In this case, our processes worked. Our compliance office uncovered both of these violations and worked through, over the last three years, trying to find a way through to solution, to resolution, which we have now received.”