UCLA associate HC gets 2-year show-cause from NCAA

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UCLA associate HC and OL coach Adrian Klemm received a 2-year show-cause order from the NCAA after paying for 2 recruits private training and providing one with a second official visit. Klemm is UCLA's best recruiter so this may have an impact for Michigan given how hard Harbaugh is hitting California and USC being a dumpster fire right now.

The most interesting part of this story was that the NCAA was originally tipped off by his ex-girlfriend who eventually changed her mind and tried to recant.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/ucla-associate-head-football-coach-acted-unethically?sf36107749=1

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xtramelanin

September 16th, 2016 at 5:59 PM ^

literally.  its very pretty.  lots to do.  but no place is worth the traffic, crime, along with the fires, floods, mud slides, quakes and riots.  

i enjoyed my years out there but am so glad to be back home.  my socal mgowife agrees.  

 

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SpikeFan2016

September 16th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^

Los Angeles is a great place to live. So is Ann Arbor. The rest of Michigan ranges from "meh" to "shitty", in my opinion. I want to move back to Michigan one day (live in LA now), but the only place I'd consider would be Ann Arbor. 

 

Los Angeles is sprawling, but the value in that is that it has extremely different neighborhoods all within its limits. There are so many different LAs (look completely different, even have different geographies and climates, different cultural enclaves, people, everything) that if you can't find one that you like, you haven't looked hard enough. 

LA county has more people in it than the entire state of Michigan, by a significant margin, so you definitely shouldn't generalize it. 

 

 

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Mr. Yost

September 16th, 2016 at 12:38 PM ^

I wonder how much he was involved with the recruits we were going head-to-head with UCLA  2-3 years back. I feel like there were a few battles and we lost them all (Chris Clark's year). 

But now we have a new recruiting rival, Washington. With Rutgers nipping at their heels!

^^sarcasm

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denardogasm

September 16th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^

All the penalties in the article are listed as taking effect in 2015.  Assuming that's a typo, although it's a weird typo to make in September 2016.  I was already wondering when this all went down because I don't remember hearing anything about it and it seems like the penalties came a lot faster than any I can remember.

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Leaders And Best

September 16th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^

UCLA self-imposed penaties in 2015-16 and suspended Klemm for the first 2 games of the 2015 season.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/uclanow/la-sp-ucla-suspends-adrian-klemm-20150821-story.html

I am a little shocked at how well they kept under wraps how serious the violations were for this long because this is the first I had heard of it. They went through the summary disposition process and avoided a COI hearing. The NCAA tacked on the 2-year show-cause penatly today in addition to UCLA's self-imposed penalties. The part I don't understand is can or will UCLA still try to employ him?

Klemm is the 2nd highest paid assistant in the Pac-12 to give a better understanding of how important he was to UCLA's program. He had a reputation for being dirty in recruiting and some of it is coming to light now.

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Rabbit21

September 16th, 2016 at 1:38 PM ^

They already made the decision to retain him.  Firing him now, in the middle of the season, when he has a penalty that makes it difficult for him to get hired by another school strikes me as not being the best idea.  In addition to depriving yourself of an OL coach who already had to sit out Spring practice two years ago, how do you hire assistants after screwing someone over like that?

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Leaders And Best

September 16th, 2016 at 2:06 PM ^

UCLA made that decision before the NCAA slapped Klemm with the 2-year show-cause today. I don't know if UCLA was expecting this to happen. UCLA could get out of his contract now and fire him for cause. He may be on a one-year renewable contract and could possibly let him go at the end of the season.

UCLA still has to present to the NCAA a plan with how they plan on monitoring Klemm, and I have no idea what is involved in that. And if Klemm were to run afoul of any more NCAA violations during this show-cause, UCLA could get hammered for deciding to keep him. Quite honestly, I don't really know the specifics of how show-cause penalties work. Usually they are significant barriers from employment by schools.

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MI Expat NY

September 16th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^

I think the practical effect is that if a coach under a show-cause penalty were to be hired by another school, any sanctions received by the prior school are either transferred to or additionally applied to the hiring school.  The "show-cause" portion is that the hiring school can make an application to show why those sactions should not transfer.

I don't think the penalty does anything to the school already employing the coach with the penalty as the school has already received the stated punishment.  

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MI Expat NY

September 16th, 2016 at 5:32 PM ^

Also true, but practically speaking, the original school would already face more severe penalties because they would be on probation.  I think if a school stands by a coach with a show cause penalty, there is no real added punishment for the school.

My understanding is the entire point of the show cause is to prevent a coach from walking away from sanctions to a new school with no sanctions.  The show cause puts the new school (and thus the coach) in the same position as the old school.  

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