Many questions remain unanswered about the possible violations involving the football team that surfaced Monday, including the degree of the violation.Bo Bahnsen, LSU senior associate athletic director of compliance and planning, said more work needs to be completed before anyone can speak about the severity of the violation. “We don’t have any indications at this point,” Bahnsen said. “Once we finalize all our reports and get it to the conference, we’ll determine at that point where we go with it.”Chancellor Michael Martin said in a statement released late Tuesday that he has “full faith and confidence in the athletic department” to find any violations that may have happened and put the issue to bed.”LSU has handled this matter with the appropriate urgency and attention to detail that is indicative of our commitment to running an athletic program that not only succeeds in competition but does so with the highest level of integrity,” Martin said.Martin also said in the statement that the current allegations will have no impact on head coach Les Miles’ job.”[Miles] has been highly cooperative in this matter and from the earliest stage has actively participated in the process of resolving this situation,” Martin said.Bahnsen said the NCAA distinguishes between a major violation and a minor violation and levies punishments accordingly.”A major infraction is one in which the NCAA would take more severe actions with sanctions,” Bahnsen said. “It doesn’t mean that secondary violations collectively would not raise it to a level of a major violation. It’s hard to describe what is secondary and what is major. The intent is a big factor.”When asked whether violations regarding a coach and a player in the football program had emerged before, Bahnsen did not mention specifics, but he said they are not novel occurrences. “There are often a lot of these violations that occur that involve both player and coach,” he said.The LSU men’s basketball team was placed on probation for one year and allowed no initial grants in the 1987-1988 season after a violation involving improper recruiting entertainment and extra benefits, among other things. An assistant coach was also “reprimanded and restricted in his recruiting activities,” according to the Legislative Services Database.In 1998, another NCAA violation surfaced in which the men’s basketball team was placed on probation for three years and forced to reduce financial aid awards and official visits because of “impermissible recruiting.” The team also had to forfeit wins from the 1996-1997 season in which the involved student-athlete participated, the database said.–Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]