Reports: Michigan ahead of schedule on practice reductions
Both annarbor.com and ESPN have reports on Michigan being ahead of schedule on cutting practice time from the NCAA sanctions. From the annarbor.com piece:
The Michigan football team cut its practice time more rapidly than originally expected in order to faster fulfill the 130 hours it must dock itself due to NCAA violations.
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said Monday at the Big Ten spring meetings that the Wolverines have already removed two-thirds of the hours (roughly 85) docked due to the NCAA extra practice probe under former coach Rich Rodriguez.
The deadline for completing the practice reductions is the 2011-12 academic year, but according to Brandon (per ESPN):
"We're well ahead, and we will have given back all of those hours well before [2012]," Brandon said.
Still, Brandon said the sanctions will have left their mark on the program.
"Our football team has practiced less than our competitors, and practice is one of the things you rely on to get better," he said. "So to a certain extent, we're at a competitive disadvantage. We had real, tangible penalties to deal with, and we are still dealing with them."
We don't want to kill the golden poop.
Not sure if articles address it, didn't have time to click, but did it say what portion was under Hoke vs. under RR? I can't imagine Hoke hasn't given up that many more hours as spring ball is so short.
"Michigan started cutting practice hours prior to summer practice last season and has until the end of the 2011-12 academic year to complete the task."
Gordon Gee read my lips!
We should have checked with Terrelle Pryor's "mentor" to see what would be appropriate sanctions for us. My guess is that he would have said no free rides or tats for a month. Now that would have been devastating to the program...
It'll be nice to get this done and over with.
Yes it will! Just think how every osu fan feels right now, tho.Not that they don't deserve it, of course.
Ugh. My best friend is dating a Wolverine from Ohio, and she has a ton of OSU friends. They're still in denial about the five game suspensions for the Tat5 and Tressel! I shudder to think of how annoyingly they will behave when real justice is served.
Probably the point of pushing to get it out of the way-- old regime's mess, let's clean it up and then the last page of that chapter will have officially been turned.
Also feels like something Carr would do-- not because it would help the team, but because it sends a message about doing things the right way.
CHARACTER. TENACITY. TOUGHNESS. And POOP.
I'm already deep in this POOP meme.
glad to see Brian's writing having this effect.
OK, so we have 45 hours to go. There are 16 weeks in the regular season (3 weeks of fall camp plus 12 games plus a bye), then 3 weeks of bowl prep (well, I hope so) then 3 weeks of spring practice. So that would work out to about two lost hours of practice per week. That is a significant disadvantage. I wonder if we're just going to plan for 18-hour weeks, or if we'll maybe take a few extra days off during the bye or before the bowl.
I would imaigne that the reduced hours are limited solely to regular season practice time. Like, what would happen if we were 5-6 going into the OSU game and still had hours to forfeit, and then lost the game?
I don't think so. Spring practice and bowl preparation are considered regular practice time.
They should start every practice about 20 minutes early to speed up the process.
(it makes sense if you don't think about it)
Joking or not, this still stings a bit.
So does The Horror and M-OSU 2006. Get over it.
Currently we've knocked out 85 hours, is this in direct correlation with our current recruiting success or is this just pure coincidence? Less time on the practice field could mean more time on the road to recruit? Assuming this is the case and we have until 2011-2012 year to get this done, can we practice normal throughout the season, to prevent a competitive disadvantage, and then do something similiar at the end of this year/beginning of next year? I have no idea how the penalties are supposed to be served or even how they work, so basically thinking, or writing outloud.
The reductions have to be finished by the end of the 2011-12 academic year, so the last chance to reduce hours will be spring practice of 2012. But from what Brandon said, it seems they plan to complete the reductions this fall.
At least from what I understood from that article, it seemed most of the reduced hours came during the season last fall. I guess now that RR is done, that is probably for the best, but I'm sure someone will cry conspiracy theory.
so it's fair that a majority of the penalty should apply to him.
I don't think Brandon is positioning the hours as a dig, since the penalty applied to Michigan not just Rich Rodriguez. Brandon is just making sure that there is a positive message out there. Especially since whenever they get around to giving OSU their penalty, Michigan is going to be the other topic in all the media articles on it.
These statements are forward looking, not backward looking.
No wonder our defense was so terrible....too soon? too soon