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 5th, 2023 at 11:01 PM ^
Username checks out
January 5th, 2023 at 11:02 PM ^
Investigators need to understand saying “no one can predict the future” in not false or misleading.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:49 AM ^
Speaking of BS, was the NCAA planning all along to release this on the Friday before the National Championship game, or would they have delayed if Michigan advanced? It would be peak-NCAA to pull a stunt like that, but wouldn’t be surprising in the least.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:02 PM ^
does this affect our postseason next year?
January 5th, 2023 at 11:04 PM ^
I used to think this sort of thing was a big deal.
Used to.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:08 PM ^
Exactly. Kansas and Arizona just got off completely free when the FBI had evidence of them paying players.
I am curious to hear Michigan / Harbaugh's take. "Lying or misleading" is much different, to me at least, than "failing to cooperate." If Michigan self reported and he said he wasn't going to answer their questions, I'm mostly fine with that.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:35 PM ^
Yeah, I have slightly mixed feelings about it, but the NCAA has completely squandered whatever credibility it once had.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:32 AM ^
Yeah, it is a sad day when FIFA & IOC have more credibility than the dipshits at the NCAA.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:13 AM ^
It’s like when JCAHO visits hospitals. They pick out some ridiculous violation, we fix it for one day for their next visit and move on with our lives. Both organizations have to justify their own existence because no one really needs them anymore.
January 6th, 2023 at 4:50 AM ^
Oh, you mean move-all-the-beds-out-of-the-halls day?
January 6th, 2023 at 11:32 AM ^
Yup…and hide all of your water bottles! It’s inherently dangerous to have my water bottle at my computer. Water bottles are cold blooded killers.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:46 PM ^
For me, it's mostly just wearing a hairnet over my scrub cap (stupid) and hiding my drugs in the omnicell (wise).
January 6th, 2023 at 6:57 AM ^
That's a good analogy.
Don't invite the vampire into your house.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:15 AM ^
Not very far off at all. I had a friend take over as pharmacy manager after the previous one was found to be addicted to pain meds she was stealing. Then the JCAHO came in and nailed my friend for the previous manager’s violations.
Sounds exactly like the NCAA.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:25 AM ^
They were much better when they were the Joint Commission. Roll em tight.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:46 AM ^
I feel like the worst case scenario here is that Harbaugh is suspended for the non-con games
January 6th, 2023 at 9:17 AM ^
Ferris State is in great jeopardy.
January 6th, 2023 at 11:17 AM ^
Anyone else notice NCAAs ability to really come down on schools outside the southern footprint. I know these are rivals or secondary rivals so we love to see them hammered but the southern schools really seem to get a lot of passes.
Penn st, UM, OSU, USC - These schools received maximum punishments
I feel like the NCAA is in place to penalize Big Ten and Pac12 teams that get out of line.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
Level I violation is on Harbaugh for "providing false or misleading information" to investigators.
That's why Jim Tressel was fired and given a show-cause penalty by the NCAA.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:04 PM ^
I feel nothing about these charges.
January 6th, 2023 at 10:13 AM ^
I feel happy, somewhat proud, that Harbaugh lied to the NCAA investigators. I hope he did so with gusto, going out of his way to lie absurdly about things he had no reason to, purely motivated by contempt.
January 6th, 2023 at 10:39 AM ^
The allegation is making "misleading or false statements." I'm not sure why "GFY" would be considered a misdirection. Seems like a pretty straightforward (and frank) assessment to me.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:27 PM ^
My final thoughts.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:05 PM ^
The appropriate response to this is to laugh in their face and ignore. If anything it makes me feel better since it gives context to all the “no one knows the future” stuff. The insiders have been hinting at this for a week so it certainly didn’t surprise anyone in the program.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:56 AM ^
How does it give context to that? Honest question, as I’m sure I just missed something.
January 6th, 2023 at 9:35 AM ^
Everyone has been assuming that the statement from Jim was referring to the (hopefully slim) possibility that he would get an offer he couldn’t refuse to go back to the NFL when it COULD have been about this NCAA kerfluffle and that something came from it.
January 6th, 2023 at 10:14 AM ^
"I'm not cooperating with these hypocritical pricks, suspension be damned. And if Warde has a big enough problem with it, I guess I won't be welcome back."
- Jim Harbaugh's thoughts, probably
January 5th, 2023 at 11:05 PM ^
This will be a good test of Warde’s leadership. His task is to politely tell the NCAA to go fuck itself
January 5th, 2023 at 11:10 PM ^
One of the few things that Dave Brandon did correctly while AD was to rigorously fight back at the absurd ncaa allegations.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:13 PM ^
Sure, he tried. But like everything else he's ever done, he failed.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:27 PM ^
He did fine on that one. Contrary to MGoBoard lore, we were not hammered by the NCAA over Stretchgate but just suffered a token punishment.
Brandon screwed up a lot of other things but got that right.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:22 AM ^
I cannot stand David Brandon and I will never forgive him for the Hoke hire, the Shane Morris fiasco, Brendan Gibbons, and the stupid gimmicks. But I can't fault him for how he handled Stretchgate. If anything, the fact that he got us out of that with nothing more than a slap on the wrist is the ONLY redeeming aspect of his tenure.
January 6th, 2023 at 4:24 AM ^
" ... we were not hammered by the NCAA over Stretchgate but just suffered a token punishment."
That's true. Brandon's actions kept the NCAA from sending the forces of Sauron to lay waste to Ann Arbor in search of the One Ring. That would have been the Tolkien punishment.
I'll show myself out ...
January 5th, 2023 at 11:27 PM ^
Did he fail toys r us? Oh he did.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:33 PM ^
Toys R Us, like many Sears, JC Penny, and most recently Bed Bath & Beyond, had been screwed for a while. The environment for big box stores just isn’t forgiving and as much as I like to dunk on Brandon there isn’t all that much he could’ve done to save them.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:47 AM ^
Toys R Us didn’t go bankrupt because of a failure to adapt to business environs; they were still largely profitable until the end. They went bankrupt because a big VC firm bought it using debt financing and then sucked it dry to try to pay off the VC’s loans (and probably so huge dividends and corporate bonuses). Toys R Us could be a profitable business OR pay the parasites who bought it, it couldn’t do both so it went under and was scrapped for parts. By the time Brandon go there I believe the writing was on the wall, I don’t think he can take much blame on that one.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:47 AM ^
Can't blame Brandon for TRU going under - he was hired by the VC to take them into bankruptcy and bring them out again. He did that quite well. In fact, he is known for doing that very thing. Basically, if Dave Brandon is hired to be CEO of your company, your company will soo file Ch 11 and restructure so huge profits can be had by the VC that bought it. That is the kind of parasite that Dave Brandon is, and he's a good parasite.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:34 AM ^
Or maybe not politely. They've repeatedly shown themselves to be a bad joke. Time to stop caring about them.
January 6th, 2023 at 9:32 AM ^
The courtesy isn't just for the person you're talking too. You're polite because other people are watching, and this is Michigan.
January 6th, 2023 at 9:20 AM ^
This isn't a hard problem to solve. Just engage the same folks that helped out Kansas, Arizona, et al.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:41 PM ^
Eureka! Hire Sean Miller as a special consultant, that'd be the legit funniest thing ever.
January 6th, 2023 at 11:39 AM ^
Why does he have to be polite?
January 5th, 2023 at 11:05 PM ^
Not cooperating with investigators is totally on brand for Coach Harbaugh. He doesn’t even cooperate with sideline reporters for a one minute post game interview.
January 5th, 2023 at 11:16 PM ^
Reports are that when investigators came to discuss with him, he grabbed Blake Corum and Mike Morris and said “these are the guys you want to be talking to” and walked away
January 6th, 2023 at 2:06 AM ^
haha well played
January 6th, 2023 at 6:18 AM ^
I’m at some rando hotel in Knoxville and laughed so hard the people stocking the breakfast both just set down what they were doing to assess me and make sure I wasn’t gonna a problem.
January 6th, 2023 at 9:18 AM ^
Oh My God.....lol
January 6th, 2023 at 9:38 AM ^
Yeah it's rare when the follow-up to a joke is essentially the same joke, but it's better executed and wittier and so gets recognized with the big applause. No offense to the initial joke -- and credit for getting it in first -- but this one was crafty.