Michigan hit with major NCAA penalties

[tornado]

just coming down...NCAA wrapped up its investigation of the Michigan issues from last fall and are ready to hand down penalties for failure to monitor..

Here's the issue from last fall...

http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13124

and NCAA comes down in just 5 months, even tho the USC crap has been going on 5 years and still nothing!!

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/19894/michigan-to-address-ncaa-report

http://www.freep.com/article/20100223/SPORTS06/100223022/1054/U-M-to-address-NCAA-football-probe-today

the penalties not stated...but it's still Michigan so they'll probably just take away a couple scholarships and minimal recruiting penalties..

[Nacho]

This has been a witch-hunt by the Detroit FreePress (for no apparent reason) from the beginning.

Of course when MSU kicked-off and suspended 10+ players from the football team for a brawl, they defended MSU .

The Free Press reported their practices were 9 hours too long on Sunday's. The NCAA ruled they were 20 mins too long because UM did not think the "stretching" counted towards the allowable time when it really did.

The same thing applies for going 2 hours over practice time for the week. the Freep reported it was something obsurd like 15+ hour extra a week.

The only substancial issue is two quality control assistants checking it on attendance in class (ok) and on voluntary workouts (not ok) and reporting the results to the coaches.

This one of those "non-manditory, manditory" deals that 99.9% of all colleges do. This is not an excuse that it is ok to break the rules, but if every local newpaper ran the same story as the Freep did (and wrote in it with a huge negative biased like they did), the NCAA would be on every campus in America reviewing manditory vs. non-manditory practice time.

The workouts cannot be called manditory because you can only practice X amount of hours per week... since the workouts are not manditory- neither is playing time. That is what is boils down to...

Sorry, (as a Michigan fan) I will not get off my soapbox...