UCLA Under Investigation For Recruiting Violations
UCLA's Assistant Head Coach and top recruiter, Adrian Klemm, has been suspended pending investigation for a series of unnamed recruiting violations. Refraining from speculation, but interesting in light of their most recent signing day class.
Link: http://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla_bruin_football/2015/3/16/8227549/adrian-klemm-suspended-by-ucla-for-alleged-recruting-violations
March 17th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
beat us head-to-head on recruits and also why he's likely to jump ship to the NFL next year and take the Sneaky Pete option.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
Totally. I mean with all of the proof you have to offer how could you be wrong?
Is an assistant coach getting suspended proof that something shady is going on?
March 17th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
but apparently not a dollar(or two) short.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
Was posted yesterday
March 17th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
so high right now.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
What if Picard Shatner himself?
March 17th, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^
That seems logical....
March 17th, 2015 at 11:56 AM ^
Hope they get hammered.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:13 PM ^
They will not get hammered. NCAA is a useless entity when it comes to enforcing rules. Expect a wrist slap to "oh no, nothing to see, forget we said anything."
How can the NCAA sanction anybody when they didn't shut down PSU for sitting on a report of child sexual abuse for 10 years?
is indeed inept, the reason PSU's sanctions got cut short is because the NCAA was penalizing the institution for things outside of its jurisdiction. What went on there was horrific, but it was a matter of law, not competitive balance. That isn't to say that I haven't lost a lot of respect for PSU and their fans' ignorant defense of an enabler. Sandusky deserves to rot and Paterno's late suffering doesn't come close to balancing the scales of those victims' suffering. Why PSU wouldn't make a stronger statement themselves is beyond me.
The NCAA requires that administrators act with integrity.
They covered up the 2001 incident because they didn't want to suffer negative publicity (and resultant loss of ability to fund raise and recruit) for having let Sandusky use the facilities after the 1998 incident. There's no integrity in that.
Negative. The NCAA has a general conduct bylaw that it most certainly should have exercised in giving Penn State the death penalty.
Penn State doesn't make a stronger statement because that community honestly believes they did nothing wrong. Jay Paterno wrote a freaking magazine article stating McQueary told JoePa in his living room about what went down and they *STILL* contend this was Sandusky only! Look at the reaction around Penn State when JoePa got his wins back. Pathetic!
March 17th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
If UCLA is punished for violations, would that allow recruits to escape their LOI, if they were so inclined? Perhaps to flee to the greener pastures of, oh I don't know, Michigan?
March 17th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
thats a very interesting aspect of all this I hadn't considered. Let me ponder this one for a moment or two...
March 17th, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^
Whoops, didn't see it posted yesterday. Got a news alert from SB Nation and figured it was new. My mistake.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
Mora better hope he has a good year this season so that the NFL calls, otherwise he might not like what the future of UCLA holds.
I'm sure this guy will call....
March 17th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
They will feel the scourge of Harbaughdom.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
Woah. And some people really wanted Jim Mora as a backup plan. Granted, he isn't the one suspended, but it's possible that he was involved with some of these violations.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
was just the tip of the iceburg. There maybe a lot more coming out in the next few weeks.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
Serious question. I haven't seen any suggestion of other violations or other coaches involved. Since UCLA suspended only one coach it would seem that they know what happened and it is isolated. I am betting on some sort of improper contact (for example during a quiet period) rather than something big.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^
Time for San Jose State to get hammered by the NCAA.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
Poor Al can't catch a break.
made them hire Borges.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
Anyone else remember those weird booster twitter accounts that got shut down right after someone put them on blast? That was hilarious. They could be in some shit.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:19 PM ^
Especially you CA kids that Harbaugh has been recruiting.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:25 PM ^
half the Pac10 and SEC were on probation at the same time.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
Now it all makes sense why UCLA started to recruit better...
March 17th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
I'm pretty sure that UCLA being significantly better at football over the last few years at a higher ranked undergraduate institution and being in Westwood, CA might have played some roles in their recruiting victories.
March 17th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^
The weather, LA women, Mora coached in the NFL, Josh Rosen, the women, it's a great school, the weather.... they must be cheating to get recruits out there. Let alone visit.
Just because you lost some recruiting battles to another school doesn't make them dirty. These violations were self reported and I doubt amount to much. Granted if this guy is their "ace" recruiter maybe he should know better.
the women twice so that must rank high in your mind then aye? Also it implies that cali women have some more appealing qualities than michigan women?!
Women in Cali in the winter: On the beach, bathing suits
Women in Michigan in the winter: parka
it was also a joke...
bowl ban and loss of schollies just find a friendly state senator to sue the NCAA and the NCAA will cave.
or child rape...
... but don't stretch for 20 minutes too long!
Too bad for Clark. He could've been part of a winner and been a star here...and on UCLA, given the signing day coup they pulled off this year is all of this any surprise?
Now that Wooden is dead, they can finally go after them for Sam Gilbert.
Oh, wrong sport.