Michigan has received its Notice of Allegations from the NCAA. Four Level II violations and one Level I violation
Michigan has received its Notice of Allegations from the NCAA. Four Level II violations and one Level I violation, a source has confirmed…Yahoo first. The Level I violation is on Harbaugh for "providing false or misleading information" to investigators.
https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1611202887983456256?t=eyhRdv52kCqT-rqbr0b4WA&s=19
January 6th, 2023 at 11:14 AM ^
Perfect, thanks for the laugh.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:05 PM ^
6 game suspension for Harbaugh for the level 1 violation is what the maximum punishment is according to the paid site chatter. I can totally see why he might’ve been peeved with the NCAA and ready to jump to the NFL. Hell I would’ve done the same thing. I’m sure they’ll appeal down but it’s asinine if they suspend him for even one game.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:06 PM ^
The allegation is he lied to investigators about the program contacting recruits during the COVID shutdown.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:56 PM ^
Am I supposed to care?
January 6th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
Keep in mind Idd10t is a Sparty troll.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:08 PM ^
It certainly puts the various information trickling out in the past week in a clearer light.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:51 PM ^
That’s stupid. Bill Self got 4 games. In basketball. With longer seasons. Harbaugh should get the same as all the coaches that have been tampering with players: zero games.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:05 AM ^
I think he'll wind up serving a 1-game suspension because the NCAA will want to save face after what is shaping up to be another PR fiasco. I just can't see the NCAA accepting a fine and some probation because they seem incredibly sensitive about the fact nobody takes them seriously.
I am sure there's some clause in Harbaugh contract that says the school can fire him for a level I violation; that seems like standard boiler plate language. Which is probably why he has kept couching claims about his return because the ball is in UM's court. I fully expect UM to fight for Harbaugh and point out the stupidity in these claims.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:55 AM ^
After what KU, LSU, Arkansas, and UNC did, if Warde doesn't just tell the NCAA to pack sand on all of it, he should be fired. In no way whatsoever should Harbaugh, or anyone else at Michigan, accept a suspension - not even one game - for pushing back against an NCAA 'investigation'.
Go scorched Earth and publicly ask how those programs got off scott free. And then go further and list all the ways the NCAA caved to the SEC with Harbaugh's innovations, especially satellite camps, and ask specifically why the NCAA has it out for him. Put them on the record to explain their duplicity.
I mean, this is some minor junk compared to what others have done. And such comparisons are valid.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:08 AM ^
You are absolutely right, that is what Warde should do. But you and I know that will never happen.
A far more likely scenario will have Warde offering his NCAA overlords an official apology for our transgressions, self-imposing a three year bowl ban, stripping 20 scholarships and firing Harbaugh for cause.
This probably won’t happen either. Probably.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:51 AM ^
LOL!! The truth is somewhere in the middle. Probably much closer to your post except the part about firing Harbaugh. I don't think Warde has the cult of personality to pull that off...
January 6th, 2023 at 9:22 AM ^
ONE GAME?!?! Oh no, what are we gonna do against ...checks notes... East Carolina????
January 6th, 2023 at 1:04 AM ^
The Kansas coach also lied to the NCAA about pay for recruits and only got a 1 day suspension. LOL for this may be Harbaugh gets a 1 QTR suspension.
January 6th, 2023 at 9:20 AM ^
but that's such a pete carroll move..... Jim, please don't do anything that puts you in the same sentence as that asshat!
January 6th, 2023 at 1:50 PM ^
Warde should be the one that is pissed for forcing him to give Jim 6 weeks of PTO.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:07 PM ^
The NCAA hasn't been credible for at least a decade and can't die fast enough, but this is probably going to be a kick in the UM crotch that lingers for a little while.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:37 AM ^
The very same NCAA that says you can feed players bagels but if you give them cream cheese it is a violation of NCAA rules?
Buy them cars or pay them millions, but don't talk to them a week early.
Fuck this organization. Why schools continue to be controlled by the NCAA is absurd.
I'm sure Michigan will fall on its sword. Threaten the fuckers with a suit.
January 6th, 2023 at 5:10 AM ^
That bagel story isn't true. OK, I'm done defending the NCAA.
January 6th, 2023 at 5:52 AM ^
i believe it is, at least the framework if not the specifics. there was some rule regarding “meals” vs “snacks,” as i recall. if you provided cream cheese it became a “meal,” which you couldn’t do as many times per day, or some such. pat forde loves to bring it up during the “death to the ncaa” discussions.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:52 AM ^
The bagel story isn’t true anymore. After Napier’s story about going to be hungry went viral in 2015(?) the NCAA scrapped the meal rules and just let schools feed the world class athletes that definitely aren’t employees whatever they want.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:17 AM ^
Has anyone been served a bagel without an option for cream cheese?
One of my trainers was a fan of peanut butter on a bagel. Would that have been considered a meal?
January 6th, 2023 at 7:58 AM ^
Yeah, I believe it was during an NCAA Bball tournament. One of the players was complaining about the bag lunches they got (sandwich, chips, soda) while NCAA staffers and event personnel were eating at a catered buffet. Someone mentioned they had bagels at breakfast, but no cream cheese was allowed per NCAA rules. The absurdities of it all were ridiculous. I do believe the ban on cream cheese was lifted soon after.
January 6th, 2023 at 10:00 AM ^
My son played in three NCAA D3 baseball tournaments during his college career and he used to send me photos of the "meals" that were provided. Breakfast was a cinnamon roll in a cellophane package from a vending machine. That they can't or don't feed these guys decent meals is shameful.
January 6th, 2023 at 10:23 AM ^
A muffin can be very filling!
January 6th, 2023 at 11:26 AM ^
Upvote for the Seinfeld reference! Crazy Joe Davola!
January 6th, 2023 at 8:14 AM ^
Here's a link to the story, It is no longer a rule but not too long ago in a galaxy not very far away...
https://www.athleticscholarships.net/2012/10/04/how-ncaa-banned-cream-c…
January 6th, 2023 at 9:23 AM ^
cream cheese is ok.... you can't feed them lox with their bagels.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:49 AM ^
"Why schools continue to be controlled by the NCAA is absurd"
Because they choose to.
The NCAA is a voluntary organization that is RUN by it's members. It is their own, chosen, elected government.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:44 AM ^
It's not like the NCAA swooped down and unwillingly conquered all the schools. The schools ARE the NCAA. They LIKE it this way. If the NCAA were somehow disbanded, a new organization exactly like the old one would form.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:23 AM ^
There is nothing wrong with a regulatory framework if the rules and regulations are reasonable. That's the knock on the NCAA. It has outlived its usefulness because it hasn't changed with the times, particularly in view of the Supreme Court case that established the legitimacy of NIL and Kavanaugh's consenting opinion that gave some direction as to how very far compensation in its various forms could go.
When people were getting paid under the table as we have seen in basketball and football for a very long time with no serious penalties to pay in most cases, it seems a bit disingenuous to be concerned about a coach talking to a recruit a few days early.
January 6th, 2023 at 11:06 AM ^
Their framework isn't useful or realistic, and their enforcement of it is arbitrary and capricious. Can't forget that knock on 'em!
January 6th, 2023 at 1:07 AM ^
NCAA only picks on the clean programs. They don't even bother with the SEC since the cheating and rule laws are always broken.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:21 AM ^
They (ncaa) have no weight to back up their investigations against the true rule breakers, so they pick on the clean programs that self identify violations.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:07 PM ^
LSU, Kansas, and Arizona State seem to be doing fine. The NCAA can lick my asshole.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:07 AM ^
They would first have to overtake you.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:26 AM ^
Just remember... "You can't eat ass with a mask"
-some Michigan Frat house.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:01 AM ^
I hear that's good for shoulder pain.
January 6th, 2023 at 10:33 AM ^
The only thing that worries me is Michigan is likely much more likely to cooperate. LSU absolutely dgaf and Kansas and ASU probably don't as well.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:08 PM ^
I, for one, welcome these allegations. The NCAA is doing a lot of good for the health and well being of the otherwise miserable folks over at RCMB and 11W. This, along with "Harbaugh to NFL" rumors, ought to keep them sated throughout the entire winter.
29-7
45-23
January 5th, 2023 at 11:10 PM ^
So Michigan and Jim will agree to suspend him for East Carolina and UNLV next year if he stays.
January 6th, 2023 at 11:10 AM ^
This is the way. An absolute minimum necessary, almost impactless gesture.
Hopefully, the current admin realizes that how M self-flagellated itself re: the Fab 5 etc. was not only counterproductive and pointless, it actually seemed to draw the ire of the NCAA and led to further penalties than if the university responded with complete aloofness and evasion.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:11 PM ^
Harbs - "No I didn't put that kids Subway sandwich on my debit card"
NCAA - "Video shows different"
Saban - "That kids homeless uncle bought him that Porsche"
NCAA - "Musta lived way under his means - good on him"
January 5th, 2023 at 11:11 PM ^
OSU fired Tressel for providing false or misleading information to the NCAA.
There are programs that have integrity. And those that don't.
Where does UM fall?
January 5th, 2023 at 11:15 PM ^
That was a decade ago. The NCAA doesn’t have much juice with university presidents anymore.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:17 PM ^
that, and a ton of other shady crap that tress did, tatoo-gate, players with cars, academics a total joke (some things never change) etc.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:20 PM ^
He resigned.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:44 PM ^
Tressel was forced out.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:42 AM ^
And thus commenced a very dark period of Buckeye football from which you guys have never recovered.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:19 AM ^
Only when the buckeyes began to realize they could fail upward with Urban Meyer.
January 6th, 2023 at 9:41 AM ^
https://vault.si.com/vault/2011/06/06/the-fall-of-jim-tressel
And this is why Ryan Day is such a departure from the typical buckeye head coach.... he doesn't have a trail of scandal following him.
Woody, fired for hitting a Clemson player
Tressel, resigned in shame after a decade long laundry list of violations is made public, following a shady history at YSU
Meyer, 'retired' in shame after Zach Smith-gate came to light, after his storied dumpster fire in FL
what a proud legacy!