AD Lew Perkins, former Iowa player, steps down early at Kansas
Embattled Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins has retired, a year before he planned to step down. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
Embattled Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins has retired, one year before he planned to step down.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Perkins — a former Iowa basketball player — made the announcement jointly in a news release today.
Perkins is 65. He had said in June he would retire in 2011.
Sean Lester was named interim athletics director.
Perkins’ tenure at Kansas has been marked by both great success and personal embarrassment.
Since he arrived from UConn, the Jayhawks have won the NCAA basketball championship and the football team won the Orange Bowl. But there have also been scandals and embarrassments, including a ticket scam allegedly conducted by staff members that cost the school as much as $3 million.
Perkins, who played for the Hawkeyes under late coach Ralph Miller from 1964-67, has not been implicated in any wrongdoing in the ticket scandal.
–Associated Press
Category: Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball
