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NCAA Investigating West Virginia Mountaineers
Add West Virginia’s name to the ever-growing list of ongoing investigations that the NCAA is performing.
In a statement issued to the public today, the university and AD Oliver Luck addressed the specific allegations that they face for the first time.
In the statement, Luck acknowleged that the Mountaineers had received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA — the first step an active NCAA investigation into a program.
“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.”
Specifically, the NCAA is looking into the activity of graduate assistants, student managers and other non-official coaching staff for the school’s football team.
The investigation will cover the years 2005-2009, which may surprise some, as many had believed the investigation would only cover the administration of former Mountaineer coach Rich Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is currently the coach at the University of Michigan and was the coach of the Mountaineers during the first three years of the time span, while current coach Bill Stewart has been the coach since Rodriguez left in 2007.
NCAA rules dictate that a team may not have more than nine assistant coaches on full-time staff, but recently some questions have arisen as to the hiring practices of graduate assistants (who do not count to that limit) who have more expeirence than the normal graduate assistant has.
The NCAA has been concerned about universities using graduate assistants as non-listed assistant coaches, and providing on-field coaching — currently outlawed by the bylaws of the NCAA.
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