The NCAA announced Thursday that former Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and the University of Arizona failed to monitor the program.

Olson retired from the university in 2008 because of poor health and Sean Miller was hired as the Wildcats head coach in 2009.

According to the NCAA the major violations occurred on multiple occasions over a period of two years and involve impermissible recruiting inducements and activities.

From the NCAA:

The violations in this case center around three Arizona Cactus Classic basketball tournaments and a GOAZCATS.com Showdown, which the promoter was allowed to conduct on the university’s campus. The committee found that the (Olsen) set the violations in motion when he allowed the promoter to have access to boosters to solicit financial support. The former head coach arranged for the promoter to speak directly to Rebounders, the men’s basketball booster club for the university, at regularly scheduled meetings. On one occasion, the former head coach personally exhorted these boosters to assist the promoter, and also sent a letter to boosters reminding them that the events were important for recruiting.

As a result, Rebounders members provided more than $197,000 in contributions to the promoter. This money was used to fund the events, which the former head coach acknowledged were beneficial to recruiting.

Because the former head coach was involved in the promotion of the events, the funding received by the participating prospective student-athletes became impermissible recruiting inducements. Two men’s basketball student-athletes competed while ineligible during the 2007-08 academic year, based on their receipt of impermissible benefits from the 2006 Cactus Classic.

The NCAA also found that the university allowed coaching to take place before the permissible start date.

The Wildcats will be on probation from July 29, 2010 to July 28, 2012. They will receive a reduction of the number of official visits and recruiting days they can conduct through the 2012 academic year. They will also lose a scholarship a year for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. The school must vacate all wins from the 2007-2008 season which the two men’s basketball student-athletes competed while ineligible.

The Arizona Daily Star reports those two players were Jamelle Horne and Zane Johnson.