West Virginia athletic director responds to NCAA Notice of Allegations with a statement
West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck issued a statement today about the Notice of Allegations it received from the NCAA on Wednesday.
The NCAA investigation has examined the roles of graduate assistants, student managers and other non-coaching staff members from 2005-2009, a period that includes when Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez was at the school from 2001-2007.
Luck's statement did not mention Rodriguez, but the Michigan coach is named several times in the NCAA Notice of Allegations.
From Luck's statement:
"This past spring, we developed new job descriptions and employment agreements which clearly detail permissible and non permissible activities for graduate assistants and other sport-specific personnel. In addition, we have expanded rules education and monitoring programs.
"We have also reduced the number of football graduate assistant positions, restricted the duties of graduate assistants and non-coaching personnel, and restructured the student manager program. We may take additional actions.
"We will carefully review the NCAA allegations and will prepare a response to each allegation by the requested date. We are eager to resolve this and move forward."
Comments
nathan
Sun, Aug 8, 2010 : 6:54 a.m.
So if u get a ticket for parking in a no parking zone that isnt labled or has no sighn saying not to park there do you have to pay it?...nope cause city ordinances have to be posted.So did you park in a no parking zone...yeah sure I did but I probablay wouldnt have if there was a sighn telling me not too.
BoLloydRich
Fri, Aug 6, 2010 : 12:46 p.m.
In case you guys weren't aware, this CARA form/what counts as practice time was going on at Michigan PRE-Rich Rod as well. So this gives us 3 coaches minimum (Carr, Rodriguez, Stewart) who were mis-interpreting the rules. Not sure if any of you have ever been exposed or even played competetive football at any level, but especially in the high school and college ranks it is commonplace to exceed practice times intentionally or not (most times in my experiece its the PLAYERS who initiate this because they are competetive and want to win). Doesnt mean that's right, but neither is going 56mph in a 55mph zone. Its that common, whether you are in a junior college, an FBS program or a high school. To think otherwise is bordline asinine.
Yelmonian
Fri, Aug 6, 2010 : 10:36 a.m.
OSUBetter... Yeah, I hate to break it to you. I have a job. Just a lowly electrical engineer designing buildings and such. I didn't feel it necessary to dignify that comment, as the discussion was on recruiting violations. I find that when logic fails, personal insults come out that have nothing to do with the topic. Again... RR has become an embarresment to UM. As a MSU alum, I am actually embarressed for UM... now isn't that a kicker.
OSUbeBetter
Fri, Aug 6, 2010 : 4:29 a.m.
Mitch why do you assume that just because michigan got caught going overtime that everyone else would be caught if the NCAA were to audit them? The reason Rodriguez got michigan into trouble wasnt because he was audited and was found to be over, it was because when the auditors came looking for the practice slips, Rodriguez had no documentation at all. Then of course his QC guys started feeding the auditors a bunch of lies to try to cover their butts. ".....While you might be shocked at the results, I don't think anyone else would be....." ".....I am convinced YOU would be shocked at the discovery....." You sure do think highly of yourself dont you. ".....Anyhow, some of us have jobs....." Well arent we special being in the 90% majority. I also have a job but i dont know if Yelmonian has one, but if he didnt I think it would be pretty lame to somehow make fun or degrade him for that. Whats wrong with you?
Yelmonian
Thu, Aug 5, 2010 : 3:09 p.m.
OK... you have a job and need to work, but you started the entire post process. Got it. RR doesn't know what the rules are, but that's the NCAA's fault. Got it. Must be everyone cheats in this exact manner, because RR would never ever do anything wrong, unless he was just confused. Got it. Because Brandon didn't throw RR under the bus in his first month on the job, it must be because he supports RR 100%. Got it. Long live guilibility!
evenyoubrutus
Thu, Aug 5, 2010 : 3:08 p.m.
University of West Virginia? I've never heard of UWV
Yelmonian
Thu, Aug 5, 2010 : 1:55 p.m.
Yep Mitch... Because when USC got busted for paying their players... and the NCAA was looking all over their rear ends for anything they could find... this wasn't an issue. The NCAA was camped out in their field for however many years... they would have never asked for practice logs. A lot of schools have the NCAA looking around their back yard for anything from payments from boosters, to bad transcripts, inelligible players, etc. I guess during any of these investigations... not one time would they look into practice logs, etc. But heck... I guess I should follow your blind loyalty... and know that RR one of the very few coaches stupid enough to get caught doing it. And yeah... his players ratted them out because they weren't loyal to UM... blah, blah, blah. Geesh. He's a mediocre coach... not Bo, Woody, or Bear. How much lip service to his rear-end does he deserve?
Yelmonian
Thu, Aug 5, 2010 : 1:33 p.m.
Mitch... Yep... because there are over a hundred Division I schools, and however many more lower division schools... And the two that RR coached at both had problems understanding the rules. This is clearly a case of ambiguous rules, and clarification is definitely needed... because we are seeing all the other major schools having issues with this exact same issue... Geeshhh...