NCAA Football Investigation
And the verdict is....... one month late, so far. I have not heard or read one piece of valuable information, or information at all for that matter, on the direction of the NCAA investigation into practice time. Has anybody?
Is the investigation on-going, or has the NCAA come to the conclusion that football players, gasp, playing football and trying to get better may not be cause for a nationwide uproar.
If there is anybody in, or close, to the know as to this issue, or just wanting to speculate etc., what's the deal. What can be made of the NCAA's silence?
January 28th, 2010 at 5:23 PM ^
Speculation: The report comes back having found no concrete evidence of wrongdoing.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:30 PM ^
RCMB melts down, accuses NCAA of hiding facts to spare UM "like always"
January 28th, 2010 at 5:38 PM ^
East Lansing's couches aren't far behind.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:38 PM ^
Double your post.
January 28th, 2010 at 6:12 PM ^
Double-posting affords me the opportunity to award you not one but two MGoPoints for excellence in the usage of East Lansing couch ignition.
January 28th, 2010 at 7:44 PM ^
And a link WVU's favorite website.....
http://www.wemustignitethiscouch.com/
January 29th, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
The free press is stankiest sack of shit in the media. They touch themselves to dantonio and his thugs. "Meanwhile at the legion of doom..." Sound familiar? It's the subconscious message we all get while reading their michigan thread.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:32 PM ^
Concluded the investigations the end of December 09. Findings should be released within 2-3 months of that.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:32 PM ^
I've had two nightmares in the past month where they found NCAA violations and Rich Rod was fired.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:37 PM ^
I had a dream a hamburger was eating me!
January 28th, 2010 at 5:44 PM ^
I had a dream that some hamburgler stole my hamburger and bragged about it to his really fat purple friend.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:55 PM ^
I stole your hamburger. And my friend is sensitive about his weight and purplish hue, so I'd ask you to be nice.
January 28th, 2010 at 6:00 PM ^
Great Seinfeld reference. +1 for you
January 28th, 2010 at 5:37 PM ^
Here's what I bet ends up happening:
1) The practice time issue results in no finding of violations
2) The NCAA finds some other minor violation for which we receive minimal to no punishment
3) The Freep declares victory and that their story is vindicated, even though the entire premise of their "investigation" is found to be wrong
January 28th, 2010 at 5:44 PM ^
4) Brian blows a gasket on his ensuing WTKA appearance after having to deal with too many callers who want Rodriguez fired immediately.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
Listening or reading when Brian blows a gasket is one of my favorite parts about Brian and this blog.
+1 to you.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:40 PM ^
It will come back as a few secondary violations and the athletic department will admonish itself by saying, "Sorry, we'll do better next time." Reggie Bush got a house and nothing has happened.
I'm not too worried. Rodriguez would have already been publicly chastised if something serious was going to happen.
January 28th, 2010 at 7:48 PM ^
I believe that if RR had been found to have committed any serious violations, there would already have been an affidavit from one of the disgruntled players who left alleging "abuse," and RR would have already been fired with no buyout.
In other words: "No worries, mon."
January 28th, 2010 at 5:45 PM ^
I am almost as curious as to what they find against USC on Febraury 20th. At worst RR loses a scholarship.
January 28th, 2010 at 6:49 PM ^
At worst maybe a scholarship, or maybe instead of 15 spring practices they get 13 or 14
January 28th, 2010 at 5:57 PM ^
do you think the Kiffin hire says about the NCAA investigation into SC. From his perspective, mighty Trojans or not, you don't leave a program like Tennessee to take over a program soon to be decimated by sanctions, right?
January 28th, 2010 at 6:07 PM ^
right before or after UM Spring Game.
Yeah...flowers emerging, tree buds blossoming, sunshine, tax time and people generally going postal.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:16 PM ^
for No Clue About Athletics.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:09 PM ^
...FREEP will cajole the NCAA until waiting until 1 week before the season opener to drop a bomb.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:09 AM ^
...FREEP is actually shooting for the day before signing day to try and get some kids to decommit.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:24 AM ^
That has been my fear for a while - Whatever happens, please wait until after signing day.
I just can't see the NCAA doing very much with this incident. It would open a can of worms for every major program.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:33 AM ^
This investigation about practice seems kind of ridiculous. I think the conflicting stories between players should be enough to throw out the investigation. It all seems pretty circumstantial to me.