LEXINGTON, Ky. — What should have been a moment of nirvana has turned into a headache for some University of Kentucky athletes.

Several UK soccer players will have to sit out two supervised team activities, such as a practice or meetings, after joining in a pickup soccer game with the Foo Fighters and UK coaches before a May 1 concert at Rupp Arena, the NCAA ruled.

The pickup game took place the week before final exams, when the NCAA prohibits coaches from being involved with players in an event like a pickup game.

The UK players were originally playing in their own pickup game at the other end of the field until a member of the Foo Fighters invited them to play “as they were getting tired and wanted the energy level to be raised.”

Three current UK men’s soccer players, one former men’s soccer player and one current women’s soccer player participated in the pickup game after being invited to join.

Kentucky self-reported the violation, according to a Courier Journal open-records request.

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The pickup soccer game is not the first time a brush with fame has resulted in minor NCAA rules violations for UK in recent years.

In September 2016, former Kentucky football assistant Lamar Thomas committed a rules violation when he provided tickets to the Wildcats’ season opener for Brittany Wagner, the star of the first season of Netflix’s documentary series “Last Chance U," at the request of an SEC Network analyst. Wagner could have received tickets through the compliance department’s pass list for recruits, but because she was employed at the time by East Mississippi Community College she could not receive them directly from Thomas.

Twice UK has reported violations involving the rapper Drake.

A violation of “preferential treatment” occurred in May 2015 when UK men’s basketball player Tyler Ulis was invited by a member of Drake’s management team to say hello to the rapper backstage at a concert in Chicago. After then recruit and future UK men’s basketball player Charles Matthews took a photo with Drake at Big Blue Madness in 2014, UK sent the rapper a cease-and-desist letter informing him to refrain from contact with recruits outside the parameters established by the NCAA.

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