USC's woes have been well-documented. And they hired a guy that has never heard of the words honor, honest or rules. Now, Michigan's (sucks) problems are on the radar, and by all accounts they've come from a toxic coach that has run the program into the ground. I don't remember any of this under LLLLLLoyd. So what's going on?
According to recent reports, there are 5 MAJOR NCAA infractions on the board for the skunkbears. We'll get results around August on these, but it's pretty clear that this is a big deal. Much bigger than some skunkbear fans would like to have you think.
But what did they do? Just a few extra hours of practice here and there? No no, that's just the tip of the iceberg that led to the rest of the program's troubles.
In addition to all the extra practice time (which some claim is just a few minutes here and there due to accounting, which I don't buy in the least), there were more deliberate and, dare I say, sinister, things going on.
Michigan was cheating....
*By using Five (5!) extra coaches on staff. They used slots reserved for 'quality control' people and essentially used them as extra coaches. All that extra coaching didn't seem to help much last year.
*By having extra workout hours, extra practices, and 'voluntary' workouts supervised by coaches. That's a no-no. And, sadly for Michigan, didn't help all that much.
*By having one of their GA's lie to the NCAA during the investigation. That makes you look real innocent. Real, real innocent.
*By not monitoring anything pretty much. No logs on practice hours, shoddy records-keeping, and all that. They lay this right at RichRod's feet, saying he failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance. RR has been toxic since the day he rolled into town, how can anyone be surprised by this claim?
*And finally, that the Athletic Dept failed to monitor the program. So, now we're getting to the AD level. No wonder there was a change in leadership there recently.
So that ugly sub-.500 result you saw last year? Yep, that's the result of TOO MANY hours of practice, and TOO MANY coaches, and NO TIME spent keeping records of anything.
Imagine how bad the RR-led Skunkbears would be if they hadn't cheated. Wow.
(And we lost to them. C'MON.)
I don't expect USC-level sanctions, but there will be serious hits to Michigan sucks football which will make them suck even more.
It's seriously likely that ND's two biggest rivals/enemies will be NCAA-hamstrung in the near future.
Jack Swarbrick's scheduling job just got much, much more difficult.
Oh, and Rich Rodriguez is a horrible, horrible coach, in case you didn't know.
By Ska February 24, 2010 - 8:09 pm
This investigation took place much faster than $C one. Makes a big difference when a school cooperates. Will be interesting to see how this factors into penalties. First violation for the skunks football program. This has got to sting a bit for the skunk old time faithful.
Keep up the good work Rod.
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By DeepTeaKup February 25, 2010 - 1:04 pm
Meh, it was not great but by no means do I think the death penalty is coming UM’s way. Of course Biscuit put his over the top rhetoric against RR (1-1 vs ND BTW) but I think he comes out looking good here. The AD department on the other hand is either incompetent or trying to get RR out. If Brandon thought it was bad RR would be gone, no ifs ands or buts about it. Now RR has to win, I remain skeptical he can do it but there will be no lasting impacts to the UM FB program to the NCAA findings.
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By The Biscuit March 1, 2010 - 10:32 am
I didn’t say death penalty. But I don’t think it will be ‘meh’ come august. I think it will be more than nothing. My RR rhetoric isn’t over the top, just accurate. How can you say he came off looking good? He was accused of creating an environment of non-compliance, essentially. At what point do you get pissed that your coach is dragging your program into the gutter DTK? (and his record against ND is irrelevant here)
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By DeepTeaKup March 1, 2010 - 4:31 pm
Biscuit, as I’ve said before, RR has to be at 8-9 wins this year or else he should be gone. No excuses, no more chances.
As to the allegations, this is pretty much my take on them. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/NCAA-details-Michigan-s-major-bureaucratic-inf?urn=ncaaf,221682
Some of them are bad, most of them, every school in the country is guilty of, ND included.
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By The Biscuit March 1, 2010 - 7:43 pm
We are guilty of only one thing: not sucking like you guys. Don’t lump us in with your shoddy compliance and shady coaching staff. I won’t have it.
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By DeepTeaKup March 1, 2010 - 8:26 pm
Right, I’d forgotten about ND’s sustained excellence the past few decades. UM has been underachieving the past 10 years, but ND has been downright average.
http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/calc-wp.pl?start=1999&end=2009&rpct=30&min=5&se=on&by=Win+Pct
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By DeepTeaKup March 1, 2010 - 8:27 pm
BTW, do you really think no violations would be found at ND if an NCAA investigation were to happen. Not one?
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By The Biscuit March 2, 2010 - 1:26 pm
Past DECADE. not few. yes, we’ve been average. but sucking is a state of mind and a lifestyle that only Michigan can perfect. It’s not a W-L metric.
I dont think there would be any majors found, not one. Maybe a minor or two, but I even doubt that, as I’m pretty sure that we’d report ourselves at even the hint of a mistake/infraction. If anything, ND is over-vigilant since a $25 booster set the ND world on fire once…and even when we hire guys that pass repeatedly to give you guys the Win, that guy doesn’t create an ‘atmosphere of non-compliance’ like your shady-ass coach does.
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