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ScriptOhio said:

NCAA announces approved agreement with Michigan over NCAA recruiting violations​

Tuesday morning, the NCAA announced its findings for one of the Michigan football team's two active NCAA investigations.​

Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel responded to the release with a written statement: "Today's joint resolution pertains to the University of Michigan Athletic Department and several former and current employees. We are pleased to reach a resolution on this matter so that our student-athletes and our football program can move forward. We have no additional information and cannot comment further on other aspects of the NCAA's inquiries."

The violations, often referred to by fans as "BurgerGate" were cited by the NCAA as "impermissible in-person recruiting contacts during a COVID-19 dead period, impermissible tryouts, and the program exceeding the number of allowed countable coaches when noncoaching staff members engaged in on- and off-field coaching activities (including providing technical and tactical skills instruction to student-athletes)."

A year ago, those were all viewed as Level-II violations — a fairly minor violation and unlikely to merit severe penalties. Where things escalated was in what the NCAA deemed Tuesday as a "head coach responsibility violation and the former football head coach failed to meet his responsibility to cooperate with the investigation."

This was considered a Level-I violation by the NCAA, and ultimately led to Michigan suspending head coach Jim Harbaugh for the first three games of the 2023 season.

In the NCAA's release, it stated that part of the resolution included "the school's agreement" on Harbaugh's violation of responsibility. It further stated that "the school also agreed that it failed to deter and detect the impermissible recruiting contacts and did not ensure that the football program adhered to rules for noncoaching staff members."

According to the NCAA's release "one former coach did not participate in the agreement, and that portion of the case will be considered separately by the Committee on Infractions, after which the committee will release its full decision." It also said "the committee's final decision — including potential violations and penalties for the former coach — is pending."

While that does not explicitly state that Harbaugh is the coach refusing to participate in the agreement, the NCAA's decision to use multiple resolution paths — the fourth time it has ever done so — seems to hint that the NCAA is no longer holding Michigan responsible for Harbaugh's compliance.

In terms of agreed-upon punishments for Michigan, the NCAA stated that it would include:

- "Three years of probation for the school"

- "A fine and recruiting restrictions in alignment with the Level I-Mitigated classification for the school"

- "The participating individuals also agreed to one-year show-cause orders consistent with the Level II-Standard and Level II-Mitigated classifications of their respective violations."

Just sayin': Harbaugh single handedly turned a Level 2 violation investigation into a level 1 violation by not cooperating.......:lol:
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Good thing Harbaugh didn’t get a tat with that burger.
 
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