The NCAA says Tuesday afternoon that University of Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez's program was out of compliance with practice time rules.
Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman was accompanied by incoming athletic director David Brandon and head football coach Rich Rodriguez, at a 1PM press conference.
Brandon said there were no surprises in the NCAA findings. He also says Rodriguez remains the coach.
((Rich Rodriguez today//Courtesy: Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free-Press))
Michigan has 90 days to respond and will appear at an NCAA hearing on infractions in August. The school is also checking in to how its investigation matches up with the NCAA findings and will consider self-imposed sanctions.
The NCAA began investigating the program following a Detroit Free Press report back in August where current and former players said they were forced to exceed NCAA limits on training and practice hours.
Read the Freep report here...
The report, now released, wasn't pretty. The outlined 5 different major violations in the football program. In fact they correlated the Free Press report from August.
Michigan has 90 days to respond and will appear at an NCAA hearing on infractions in August. The school is also checking in to how its investigation matches up with the NCAA findings and will consider self-imposed sanctions.
The NCAA began investigating the program following a Detroit Free Press report back in August where current and former players said they were forced to exceed NCAA limits on training and practice hours.
Read the Freep report here...
The report, now released, wasn't pretty. The outlined 5 different major violations in the football program. In fact they correlated the Free Press report from August.
Today's story from the Freep is RIGHT HERE
The laundry list includes:
(1) Exceeding the allowed number of coaches by 5.
(2) Permitting staff to monitor and conduct voluntary summer
workouts outside the season and requiring players to participate in summer conditioning for disciplinary purposes etc.
(3) Graduate Assistant Coach Alex Herron provided "False and
misleading information to the school and enforcement staff: he
lied to them.
(4) Coach Rich Rodriguez didn't monitor any of this.
(5) The Athletic Department also didn't monitor any of this
The school has 90 days to respond to the NCAA and will appear in front of the committee in August to find out their punishment. The scary part of all this is the emphasis by Brandon that Rodriguez will still be the coach at Michigan next year. His regime to this point has been somewhat of a failure with barely a winning record.
Here's RichRod from the presser, thanks to our friends at WXYZ-TV in Detroit
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