To see the official reports and a related article, click here.The report LSU issued to the NCAA on Tuesday outlined violations in which a former LSU player engaged in improper telephone calls and received illegal transportation and housing prior to his starting at LSU.Names and locations are redacted throughout the report, which chronicles the University’s internal investigation surrounding former defensive lineman Akiem Hicks, a junior college transfer from California who left LSU after the 2009 football season, and former wide receivers coach D.J. McCarthy, who resigned amid the investigation in December.Athletic Department officials suspected possible violations as soon as Hicks moved to Baton Rouge without being enrolled as a student at LSU last summer. Members of the Compliance Office then worked to prevent further violations by making coaches aware of the  situation and trying to work with Hicks, who did not fully cooperate and lied several times about his housing and transportation arrangements. Hicks originally planned his unofficial visit around the 2009 spring game, but the report says a scheduling conflict changed his plans. Instances of improper transportation occurred when two football operations student workers drove Hicks to and from the New Orleans airport during this visit.Both Hicks and one of the student workers, a female who drove him to Baton Rouge from New Orleans, testified Hicks spent his first two nights of his unofficial visit at her off-campus apartment and she transported him around the city. The two developed a personal relationship when Hicks first came to LSU on his official visit and continued to exchange telephone calls and text messages before he returned for his unofficial visit, according to the report.”[Hicks] is certain that no coaches transported him or provided meals for him while he was in Baton Rouge for his unofficial visit, but he does believe he ate at the Football Operations building during the visit,” the report says.According to the report, Hicks should have completed a “Louisiana State University Compliance Program Unofficial Visitation Form,” during his unofficial visit. Sam Nader, assistant athletic director of football operations, said the coach recruiting Hicks should have notified Sharon Mangum, assistant athletic director of recruiting and alumni relations, of the visit. Mangum was never notified, the report says.   In the overview of the investigation, the report says Miriam Segar, associate athletic director for student services, made repeated attempts to e-mail and call Hicks last summer to ensure his compliance with NCAA rules for prospective student-athletes.”Even after meeting with him, the staff remained concerned because they could not confirm his housing and transportation arrangements during the summer,” the report says.Hicks enrolled in Baton Rouge Community College upon his arrival in Baton Rouge in summer 2009 because he did not pass a required course for eligibility at LSU. The report says he then received impermissible housing by renting an apartment from two former unidentified LSU athletes, a football player and a men’s basketball player, at a rate of $495 a month, discounted from the normal rate of $1,030 a month. The report also states as many as 25 possible telephone recruiting violations have been identified during the recruitment of Hicks and another player. The report says McCarthy owned a second cell phone in addition to the one LSU supplied him. The University ultimately obtained records from McCarthy’s second phone and entered those calls into the “Comply and Verify” system.”That second cell phone was not registered with the compliance staff and, thus, had not been monitored for recruiting compliance,” the report says.The report says coach Les Miles inadvertently made prohibited calls to Hicks as a result of prior calls not being logged in the compliance system, but notes Miles couldn’t have known the calls were possible violations. Hicks also acquired money and the use of a truck from an assistant coach at an unnamed school who was coaching at an LSU summer camp. Hicks ran into that coach at an off-campus restaurant that summer.”[Redacted] told [unnamed coach] that he did not have any spending money and complained he was having trouble getting around town without a vehicle,” the report says. “[Unnamed coach] gave him some money on that occasion and once more when he saw him later in the summer. The total he gave [redacted] was around $350.”–Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]