The University of Michigan has acknowledged that it committed four major violations in its football program and recommended two years of probation...
The report detailed several additional self-imposed sanctions. Michigan...
- Docked itself 130 hours of practice and training time over the next two years — two hours for every hour of violation, which is common in these cases.
Reduced its quality-control staff from five members to three and prohibited them from attending practices and games for the remainder of 2010. It also will keep those staffers out of coaches’ meetings, despite a new NCAA bylaw that allows them to attend.Has taken disciplinary action against the “seven individuals who shared in responsibility” and fired a graduate assistant coach. Letters of reprimand were issued to coach Rich Rodriguez and strength and conditioning coach Mike Barwis, among others. Graduate assistant Alex Herron, who also worked for Rodriguez at West Virginia, was fired in March. The school
said it should not be tagged as a repeat offender despite a 2003 scandal in the basketball program - a key argument, since the designation would almost certainly mean harsher penalties from the NCAA.
We were amused this quote from new UM Athletic director David Brandon...
"I don't think this is a black eye. This is a bruise."
Correct us if we're wrong, but we're pretty sure a black eye is
a type of bruise.
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