Reduced Practice hours
I was wondering if anyone close to the program knew when we would have all the reduced practice time completed? I know that RR had an aggressive timeline, and was wondering if Hoke was trying to accomplish the same timeline.
In addition, was the reduction of grad assistants just for last fall?
Any updates would be appriciated.
RR's timeline was supposed to be done by the summer IIRC. Last I heard, Brandon said they are planning to be done sometime in the fall.
I say we pretend it never happened until Auburn is dealt with. For the life of me I will never be able to wrap my head around the fact that we got hit with sanctions and nothing is being done about Auburn. Thanks Freep, you bunch of spineless narcs.
I don't think that the Auburn situation is finished. The NCAA ruled on Cam Newton's eligibility based on the information given to them by the school. I'm not sure if there was an actual external investigation conducted by the NCAA. There might be more serious things to come out other than the pay for play scheme like money laundering and fraud.
My hope is that the NCAA is not done with Auburn they are just letting the FBI do their thing right now. On the other hand they might not do anything, this is the NCAA we are talking about.
I might be wrong but i think the ruling was 130 hours of reduced practice through 2012 academic year, not sure when we will be finshed though. Im not sure about the grad assistants.
1. The reduction of the number of quality control staff members for football from five to three until the conclusion of the 2011-12 football season. The institution will not create new non-coaching football staff positions during this time.
2. Quality control staff members will not be allowed to attend practices during 2010-11 football pre-season and regular season.
3. Quality control staff members will be prohibited from engaging in any normal game-day activities (i.e., being present on the sidelines, in the press box or in the locker room, travel with the football team to away games, attend team or coaches meetings on game day, etc) during the 2010-11 football season. Quality control staff members will be treated in the same manner as other non-football staff on game days.
4. Quality control staff members will not be allowed to attend coaches meetings from June 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010.
and on the hours:
3. The institution has concluded that its football program exceeded the limits for countable athletically related activity time by a total of approximately 65 hours during 2008 and 2009 (24 hours during winter, 32 hours during summer and nine hours during the regular season). As a result, the institution will decrease the permitted countable athletically related activity time by 130 hours beginning June 1, 2010, and ending no later than the conclusion of the 2011-12 academic year. (Institution imposed)
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I don't know if Hoke was sticking to the timeline that RR set forth. My guess is that he's not because of the time needed this spring and fall to implement the new systems.
What he said.
Thanks for the info. Are the quality control assistants in the same category as graduate assistants?
UM has two grad assistants this year. And it wasn't the GA's that were really causing the issue as much as it was the QC guys. And just in the way of additional information the two grad assistants are Roy Manning and Aubrey Pleasant
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/manning_roy00.html
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/pleasant_aubrey00.html
The QC guys appear to be actually labeled "Football Analysts" this year and there are three of them per the NCAA ruling.
• Football Analyst: Christian Taylor
• Football Analyst: Kurt Mattix
• Football Analyst: Bryan Wright
Here's the complete list
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/coaches-m-footbl.html
For some reason I thought that we used to have more GAs. I have no reason why I thought this, but I thought there was a GA for every position group.
It is cool to see former players like Roy Manning coming back to be a GA. I think he was a good choice because he seems like a young guy with NFL experience who the kids can relate to more.
All Great Information. Glad to hear that most of the QC stuff is done. Hopefully the hours are done soon, and this whole rediculous freep mess is over.
Why would you give back double the practice hours? More than anything, that bothers me.
The martyrdom at Michigan blows my mind.
NCAA punishment for practice overage violations.