The N.C.A.A.'s Eligibility Center reviewed all information that it had concerning the student-athlete's eligibility status and determined that he was eligible for his freshman year".
Third, the university worked very closely with our compliance people, with an outside legal agency and obviously with the N.C.A.A. eligibility center.
Johnson said he also advised Paxton not to complete a questionnaire the N.C.A.A. Eligibility Center sent to draftees who chose to attend or return to college.
Witherspoon said he briefly spoke to Mark Hicks, the associate director of high school review at the N.C.A.A. eligibility center, before the release of the report.
Unhappy with the university's response, the N.C.A.A. issued a statement of its own: "The N.C.A.A. Eligibility Center determines a prospective student-athlete's eligibility to compete in college athletics based on the association's academic and amateurism requirements.
"We maintain our reliance on the high school, university and N.C.A.A. eligibility center for initial eligibility and will continue to do so," Kentucky Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart said in a statement.
The university acknowledged that Wells offered scholarships to the players but maintained it was under no obligation because they had not completed the proper paperwork nor had their names submitted by Wells to the N.C.A.A.'s eligibility center.
What is unusual about Sanchez's situation, his lawyer, Robert Orr, said, is that questions surrounding his eligibility center on rules regarding athletes who are older than the typical college student.
Athletes who are inundated by calls or have coaches contacting them from universities they are not interested in attending would be able to go to the N.C.A.A.'s online eligibility center and pull up a list and click on those programs with which they no longer wanted to be associated.
Fenerbahce stands to benefit if Kanter is declared ineligible to play college basketball since the team would be due a transfer fee if he plays in Europe next season, but Karakas said turning in the documents to the N.C.A.A. eligibility center was a matter of telling the truth.
The report addressed four questions about the eligibility center, including an allegation first reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution last year that more than 47,000 veterans died while their applications were still pending.
