Who was responsible for filing the reports?

Submitted by DesHow21 on

It is not clear from any of the articles if this was negligence on the part of the compliance officials to file the reports or if it was the coaches that forgot to file them?

I am sure somebody has already answered this in some thread, but I am just not able to find it.

EDIT: The articles I am referring to is the Detnews and Mgoblog article on the topic. I would rather continually dong punch myself than read the ****p article.

Mgobowl

November 17th, 2009 at 11:03 AM ^

Since the forms are not an NCAA form, it's possible that the coaches were not aware of them or the proper process for filing them. End of the day, this has to be on the compliance department for not following up on it sooner. These are monthly forms and to wait 9 months or more before notifying the coaches of a problem does not reflect well on the compliance department.

uminks

November 17th, 2009 at 11:04 AM ^

May be the AD forgot to tell RR he needed to submit a monthly report. May be they were annual reports submitted at WVU? In any event the compliance department may have dropped the ball! I hope there are other records that show practice time.

DesHow21

November 17th, 2009 at 11:07 AM ^

they might have been "encouraged" to let that detail slip when the new coaches were being briefed about Michigan specific procedures.

If true, the extent to which the anti-RR lobby will go to torpedo him is shocking.

DesHow21

November 17th, 2009 at 11:11 AM ^

about a new Michigan coach (don't know the sport) being told by then AD Bo that the ONE thing that would get him immediately fired would be cheating.

I wonder if that attitude has slipped since then. I would have hoped Martin would have sat the entire coaching staff down on their first day and read them riot act and held a workshop with compliance to make sure everyone was on the same page. I hope some equivalent of this did happen and this was just an innocent screw-up that we can skate by.

bluebyyou

November 17th, 2009 at 11:14 AM ^

The reports are not required by the NCAA, but my read is that they could have gone a long way to eliminate the issue under investigation by proving what hours the players were actually participating in football and related activities.

Someone needs to get a kick in the butt. All it required was a simple spreadsheet - did the report get filed or did it not? "If- then-else" in its simplest form.

Maize and Blue…

November 17th, 2009 at 11:15 AM ^

Having them would make things much easier in disproving allegations. This seems to be on the compliance department and is inexcusable. Also, I would believe that this would be a duty assigned to a quality control staffer not RichRod.

DesHow21

November 17th, 2009 at 11:32 AM ^

coaches don't show up in voluntary practices and that practices don't run > 20 hours, how in the BLOODY HELL does it make sense to have coaches file these reports?

That's like making:

Saban a moral ethics professor,
or Weis an example of humility/restraint,
or Meyer in-charge of showing class and not publicly campaigning
or Tebow a Pro-foreskin ambassador
or Dantonio in-charge of teaching kids that crime doesn't pay.

Wes Mantooth

November 17th, 2009 at 11:39 AM ^

From what I understand, the NCAA (as always) is focusing on if there's institutional control over the program. While the forms being discussed aren't required by the NCAA, they demonstrate that there is control and that the coaches have someone they need to answer to. Without these forms, there's no way for the athletic department to track what's going on- a 'lack of institutional control', which is a big deal.

I'm no expert, but it sounds like the bigger issue is over institutional control instead of whether practice time exceeded limits. So in the end the fault will have to lie with the compliance dep't.

SonoAzzurro

November 17th, 2009 at 11:55 AM ^

It sounds like they couldn't manage to file some simple reports, yet when the Freep story came out in August, all we heard was that the compliance department had been on top of their game, making sure everything was being done according to the rules. So in terms of the compliance department being on top of their game, these two accounts appear to be contradictory. Unless it was the coaches who refused to turn those reports in.

Marshmallow

November 17th, 2009 at 12:49 PM ^

MSC/BM/RR need to have an all-hands meeting and tell everyone at the Ath. Dept. to get behind RR or leave. Negligence is about the last thing this PR-challenged department needs. They should fire the person responsible immediately.

Blue In NC

November 17th, 2009 at 3:37 PM ^

This. I hate to be all "tin foil hat" on this but haven't we had repeated compliance department and academic support department screw-ups in the past two years (e.g. LB recruit that went to Rutgers)?

If your job is compliance, how is it that it takes 9 months to figure out that your #1 sugar-daddy didn't file its compliance reports? WTH?