Head coach Mark Stoops after his team beats Louisville to end their regular season play 9-3. Louisville Courier Journal
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Almost a year after Kentucky suspended outside linebacker Denzil Ware for its 2017 Music City Bowl game against Northwestern, details have emerged as to the cause of that suspension.
Ware, who transferred from UK to Jacksonville State before the 2018 season, was held out of the bowl game after accepting $1,628 in impermissible benefits from someone who triggered the NCAA’s definition of an agent, according to a self-reported rules violation made by UK to the SEC and NCAA and obtained by the Courier Journal through an open records request.