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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: Tiger Wench on August 30, 2009, 11:44:46 AM
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<quote>Report: Players allege rules were broken
DETROIT -- Several Michigan football players claim the program regularly violates NCAA rules limiting how much time they can spend on training and practice sessions, according to a published report.
Players from the 2008 and 2009 teams told the Detroit Free Press for a story published on the newspaper's Web site on Saturday that the amount of time they spend on football activities during the season and in the offseason greatly exceeds the limits. The players spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity because they feared repercussions from coaches.
Coach Rich Rodriguez and the university's compliance director, Judy Van Horn, both denied that the football program was violating NCAA rules.
"We know the practice and offseason rules, and we stay within the guidelines. We follow the rules and have always been completely committed to being compliant with all NCAA rules," Rodriguez said in a written statement to the newspaper.
Van Horn said her department conducts "in-person spot checks of practice during the academic year and summer. We have not had any reason to self-report any violations in this area with any of our sports."
One former player who started for Michigan last season told ESPN Saturday night that the report was accurate.
The player, who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions from fans, said in-season Sundays at the football facility lasted from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., including a one-hour lunch. That would be an 11-hour day. The NCAA daily limit is four hours, the weekly limit 20.
The same player said required offseason workouts included three-hour lifts on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and two hours of speed and agility on Tuesdays and Thursday. That's a total of 13 hours; the NCAA limit is eight hours of required workouts.
This player said he would tell the Big Ten or NCAA what players were required to do and believes most of his former teammates would, as well.
A current member of the Michigan football team, who has started, also told ESPN his in-season Sundays at the football facility lasted from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., although he acknowledged the first two hours were spent in treatment, which is not counted against the restricted hours.
The player said this season players will be off on Sundays, practicing on Mondays.
The player said he worked out about twice as many hours as the allotted eight per week in the offseason. He asked strength coaches why the workouts seemed excessive and was told that some parts of the exercises, such as core work and injury prevention, were not counted as required.
The player said the strength coach told him that the workout plan had been approved by the NCAA.
Players told the Free Press that quality-control staff often watched seven-on-seven offseason scrimmages that are supposed to be voluntary and that only training staff are allowed to attend.
The Free Press said five of the 10 current or former players it interviewed gave similar accounts of how the program is run and a sixth player confirmed most of the descriptions. Other players gave a general idea of the program. None disputed the allegations, the newspaper said.
The players acknowledged they had signed forms stating NCAA rules had been followed and had not told the university's compliance department about their concerns. One player told the Free Press that athletes would get in trouble if they didn't sign.
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LOL, I was about to post the exact same thing. That's some stabbing in the back, if I've ever seen it. I've never seen players come out, ONE week before their season kicks off, to bash their own coach and claim possible NCAA Violations on their own team, again ONE week before kick off.....WOW.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4431717 (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4431717)
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The lifted weights 3 hrs a day 3 times a week??? Plus 2 hours 2 times a week on speed and agility???
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The lifted weights 3 hrs a day 3 times a week??? Plus 2 hours 2 times a week on speed and agility???
Sounds like they should be big and fast. What's the problem?
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I don't care much for Rich Rod, but I have to wonder if this a small group of players whining about having to work their ass off more then they would like or if RR is a total douchebag as a coach also and these guys just don't like him. I haven't always cared much for every coach I have had, but tattle telling on him at the expense of your team is a bit much I think. They are willing to make last year's team and their current teammates suffer just because they don't like RR?
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Until these losers are gone from the program, Michigan will suck balls. When you were as bad as they were last season and you bitch about working harder to get better, you need to transfer to a school where the work has already been done and others can carry you. I would be ashamed to know these types of players.
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Sounds like they should be big and fast. What's the problem?
I don't believe there would be enough recovery time to actually make you faster and stronger. They probably were studying playbooks and walking through plays as well.
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Sounds like they should be big and fast. What's the problem?
Yox only needs a fraction of the time to accomplish the same thing...
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Someone is cryin'.......
http://deadspin.com/5349419/you-made-rich-rodriguez-cry (http://deadspin.com/5349419/you-made-rich-rodriguez-cry)
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Someone is cryin'.......
http://deadspin.com/5349419/you-made-rich-rodriguez-cry (http://deadspin.com/5349419/you-made-rich-rodriguez-cry)
As a talking head on ESPN said about this: "Where there's tears, there's fire."
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As a talking head on ESPN said about this: "Where there's tears, there's fire."
I was thinking the exact same thing.
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I don't care for Rich Rod, but if this bullshit cost him his job.......well what a damn shame. I have to agree with CCTAU's take on this.