Cheating is the Michigan way: Jim Harbaugh commits multiple NCAA violations; sanctions pending

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Wolverines report 4 secondary violations under Harbaugh

Wayne Lyons as a graduate transfer from Stanford, the Free Press learned that the Wolverines self-reported four secondary NCAA violations, all committed under new football coach Jim Harbaugh, including one involving Lyons.

Secondary violations, classified as Level III, typically don't result in significant punitive action by the NCAA. On Monday, the Free Press obtained U-M's report to the NCAA through a Freedom of Information Act request.

U-M wrote that none of the violations impacted the eligibility of any athletes. As a result of the violations — two of which directly involved Harbaugh — U-M wrote that its compliance department would provide additional education on NCAA rules and school protocol to the involved parties and other football staff members.

The violations, all reported April 13, were improperly discussing a recruit before he had been admitted, providing a helmet and jersey for a fundraiser to benefit a high school scholarship fund, sharing recruiting materials through social media, and allowing a recruit to sit in premium seating at a campus hockey game.

Harbaugh took over as coach of the Wolverines on Dec. 30. He previously coached at University of San Diego and Stanford before spending four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.

U-M football spokesman David Ablauf acknowledged the violations but declined to comment further. "It's all in the report," he told the Free Press.

U-M reported that it violated two NCAA bylaws involving Lyons. The guilty parties were his future position coach — and his mother.

On March 26, secondary coach Mike Zordichtalked about recruiting Lyons with media members before the player officially had joined the Wolverines. Zordich had told his cornerbacks that competition was coming and discussed Lyons with reporters.

Gwendolyn Bush, Lyons' mother, was hired as U-M football's director of player development during the winter and tweeted Feb. 4: "Now I'm @UMICH_Mama_G TeamMom for the University of Michigan Football Program!" That tweet and others about the transfer have been removed from her Twitter account.

Coaches and administrators are not allowed to make public comments on potential transfers until the player has been cleared by the compliance department and admitted by the university.

Also according to U-M's filing with the NCAA:

• On March 14, Harbaugh, football operations director Jim Minick and special teams coordinator John Baxter allowed a recruit on an unofficial visit to sit in premium seating with coaches during a hockey game at Yost Ice Arena. The recruit had made an unplanned visit to the football facility, which is across a parking lot from Yost. Harbaugh was scheduled to make a promotional appearance after the second period. They invited the recruit to walk over with them and then he joined them in seats Harbaugh previously had used with his family. U-M said event staff asked compliance staff whether the recruit could be in those seats. U-M said the football staff did not realized the seats were considered premium seating "until the compliance personnel inquired about it," with about one minute left in the game. According to U-M, the coaching staff was educated by the compliance staff after the violation.

• On March 18, Harbaugh sent a signed helmet and jersey to an auction put together by a former high school classmate to raise funds to benefit suicide prevention and awareness in Toledo. The money raised was used for a scholarship fund in honor of a student who committed suicide, which Harbaugh said he was not aware of and which violates NCAA rules. According to U-M, Harbaugh and Minick were instructed that all donations needed to be reviewed by compliance personnel.

Harbaugh tweeted Monday: "Thought of day: 'No good deed goes unpunished' Oscar Wilde."

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/c...n-secondary-violations-jim-harbaugh/27154627/

 

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Already???

 

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Home » Sports » Accidental text from coach’s 4-year-old son among 47 Ohio State self-reported Big Ten, NCAA violations
Accidental text from coach’s 4-year-old son among 47 Ohio State self-reported Big Ten, NCAA violations
By Tim Moody: moody.178@osu.edu March 2, 2015 12 Comments


Ohio State self-reported 47 minor Big Ten and NCAA rules violations in 2014, including one as the result of an accidental text sent by a football coach’s 4-year-old son.

OSU wide receivers coach Zach Smith’s son picked up his father’s cell phone when a recruit called on May 27, and accidentally sent an automatic text message in return. The university sent a letter of education to the football coaches after the incident in regards to NCAA texting rules and phone security.

The NCAA did not review the case as part of its interpretations philosophy, which allows for flexibility when reviewing rule violations.

This information is the result of three separate public records requests submitted by The Lantern.

The most recent request spanned from Sept. 1 through Jan. 18. The records request showed 19 self-reported NCAA and Big Ten violations in the final four months of the year.

Of those 19 violations, only two involved the OSU football program, and none involved the men’s basketball team.

Apart from the accidental text message from Smith’s son, the only other football violation was for “impermissible on-campus contact,” submitted to the NCAA on Sept. 25. That incident involved coach Urban Meyer having “inadvertent contact with a junior college non-qualifier.” That junior college athlete was on campus without the knowledge of the OSU staff, according to the records request.

OSU declared the athlete ineligible until he was reinstated by the NCAA. The records did not specify any actions by the NCAA.

Eighteen of the final 19 violations of 2014 were for NCAA rules, and only one prompted punishment from the NCAA beyond what was handed down by the university. As reported by The Lantern on Oct. 14, theNCAA imposed two $500 fines on OSU after an ineligible men’s soccer player competed in two matches.

Apart from the soccer violation, three violations had monetary consequences.

A member of the field hockey team took part in 17 games during the 2013-14 school year even though she was ineligible. The school paid $5,000 in fines and declared the student-athlete ineligible for field hockey going forward.

One member of the OSU wrestling team inadvertently received school books during Fall Semester because his name “incorrectly appeared on the institution’s book list.” The NCAA reinstatement staff said the student-athlete must repay the value of the books before being reinstated, which was the same decision made by the university in the case.

Members of the women’s tennis team were required to repay $28 after the program provided them with impermissible per diem on two occasions.

Since Sept. 1, 12 different OSU programs self-reported violations, with football, men’s soccer, wrestling, field hockey, men’s gymnastics and women’s volleyball reporting two each. The OSU athletics communication staff also self-reported a violation of its own for “impermissible publicity of voluntary summer workouts.”

Through Jan. 18, OSU athletics had only self-reported one NCAA violation and no Big Ten violations.

The NCAA violation was for impermissible text messages and phone calls, reported by the football program on Jan. 7. The violation was the result of six accidental one-minute phone calls and five text messages over a span of 10 months. The university prevented the football coaching staff from making phone calls for one week as a punishment, and the NCAA decided not to impose any further sanctions.

The three records requests submitted by The Lantern showed eight total football violations in 2014, along with the first OSU violation of 2015.

The first request was submitted July 8 and fulfilled Aug. 11, the second was submitted Sept. 23 and fulfilled Oct. 14, and the third was submitted Jan. 18 and fulfilled Thursday evening.

Secondary violations just means you are recruiting hard. Every competitive team has them and you don't get penalized for them tbh.

 

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[RubioTheCruel]

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

Already???

Doing stupid shyt and ain't even coached a game yet. Giving jobs to mothers of other teams players, only for that player to leave the school and enroll at Michigan two months later.

Are you kidding me??

They need to annex that state and put it up auction. Give to North Korea on the low-low.

 

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Also change the title, dumbass. You don't get sanctions for secondary violations

 

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[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

Secondary violations just means you are recruiting hard. Every competitive team has them and you don't get penalized for them tbh.

Giving jobs to mothers of a another teams player who's not even an eligible recruit is a secondary violation???

In Michigan's eyes of course it is. The rest of the world, no.

 

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Also change the title, dumbass. You don't get sanctions for secondary violations

Michigan self reported as secondary violations dum dum.

You my man on non OSU/UM issues... but you know Michigan is under reporting the violation in an attempt to influence the NCAA's official ruling. This could easily be considered a Tier I offense.

 

[Poitier]

Giving jobs to mothers of a another teams player who's not even an eligible recruit is a secondary violation???

Teams do it all the time dumbass

 

[duncanthetall]

Breh you just got there

 

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

Teams do it all the time dumbass

Right... teams commit major NCAA violations everyday, right B?

Give an enrolled player of another team mother a job, only for that player to leave that school and enroll at your school three months later brehs brehs

That's called cheating to me, 'aggresive' recruiting to Michigan people

 

[Poitier]

Right... teams commit major NCAA violations everyday, right B?

Give an enrolled player of another team mother a job, only for that player to leave that school and enroll at your school three months later brehs brehs

That's called cheating to me, 'aggresive' recruiting to Michigan people

Would you care to do a ban bet that nothing comes of this?

 

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Michigan people, let me break it down for you:

Recruiting = legal and a non sanctionable action

NCAA violation = not legal and considered cheating... especially in this case. Offering financial benefits to parents and indulging recruits with lavish gifts and spoils on the universities dime will get you reprimanded.

Fukking cheaters always trying to validate their bullshyt