N.C. State Says Players Lived at Valvano Apartment

As University of North Carolina system officials prepared to consider allegations of wrongdoing in the North Carolina State athletic department, the school notified the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. that it might be guilty of rules violations.

The university notified the NCAA on Thursday that basketball players lived at an apartment owned by basketball coach and athletic director Jim Valvano. NCAA rules prohibit coaches from giving their players reduced rent or setting up unusual rent payment schedules for them.

The university called the NCAA after The Charlotte Observer made inquiries about former N.C. State players Charles Shackleford and Kelsey Weems, who lived in a west Raleigh townhouse apartment owned by Valvano and his wife, Pam.

Art Kaminsky, Valvano’s lawyer, said Valvano could not comment until today, but that he said he did not expect there would be a violation. Kaminsky said an agency rented the apartment to Shackleford and Weems without Valvano’s knowledge and Valvano learned of it later from assistant coach Dick Stewart.