Re: Hockey East - The Off Season
Wouldn't say it to his face? This is a message board you know, it's not designed to be a forum to speak directly with the coaches or players.
I find it very, very difficult to believe that a school would pre-emptively suspend their head coach and top assistant in the stretch run of the season because of some minute violation that was more of a technicality. The NCAA calls these types of these "minor violations" and they tend to amount to incredibly dumb things like overpaying meal money for a player by an insignificant amount, or arranging for an injured player who stayed after the team bus left for treatment to receive a ride from the arena back to the hotel while on the road with a team employee instead of getting one on his own. The penalties amount to repaying the sum of money to someone, usually very insignificant amounts, and the coaching staff pledges to attend some hour of NCAA rule re-education session or something dumb. Basically, it's all a load of BS, and most definitely does not warrant a pre-emptive suspension.
Suspensions are for major NCAA violations, which include excessive contact and things of that nature. I'm not sure how you can say the violations had nothing to do with competitive recruiting (that's a little redundant in this context) when NU's own press release on the suspension said this: "The possible violations relate to telephone and text message legislation and were revealed during the course of routine internal compliance monitoring." So clearly, it had to do with phone calls and text messages, which are only a violation in two ways, a player using athletic department phones for excessive personal use, which 99.9% of the time is not a major violation, or the coaching staff made excessive contact with recruits, which is frequently a major violation.
Sure, the press release says possible violations, but the only way they suspend him pre-emptively is if they already know they're violations. The NCAA is the body that definitively determines that they are violations, not the school.
You say the "violations would have been..." which is kind of confusing, but I think implies that there were no violations. The school would not dole out a lengthy pre-emptive suspension if there were no violations.
You make it seem like nothing happened and they just broke a series of rules in technicality only, and not in the spirit of the rule, meaning they didn't really break the rule. I too know someone who works directly in the AD there, specifically within the hockey program, and while he was 100% tight-lipped on what happened, it was made very clear from my conversations with him that something definitely happened, and it was not an irrelevant minor violation.
The only other semi-plausible explanation for this whole scenario would be if he really didn't do anything, and NU was just out to get him for some reason. This scenario makes little sense though because if they went this far to "get him" they likely would have fired him already in the offseason, and reinstating him just before the playoffs wouldn't be consistent with the "out to get him" mentality.
Wouldn't say it to his face? This is a message board you know, it's not designed to be a forum to speak directly with the coaches or players.
I find it very, very difficult to believe that a school would pre-emptively suspend their head coach and top assistant in the stretch run of the season because of some minute violation that was more of a technicality. The NCAA calls these types of these "minor violations" and they tend to amount to incredibly dumb things like overpaying meal money for a player by an insignificant amount, or arranging for an injured player who stayed after the team bus left for treatment to receive a ride from the arena back to the hotel while on the road with a team employee instead of getting one on his own. The penalties amount to repaying the sum of money to someone, usually very insignificant amounts, and the coaching staff pledges to attend some hour of NCAA rule re-education session or something dumb. Basically, it's all a load of BS, and most definitely does not warrant a pre-emptive suspension.
Suspensions are for major NCAA violations, which include excessive contact and things of that nature. I'm not sure how you can say the violations had nothing to do with competitive recruiting (that's a little redundant in this context) when NU's own press release on the suspension said this: "The possible violations relate to telephone and text message legislation and were revealed during the course of routine internal compliance monitoring." So clearly, it had to do with phone calls and text messages, which are only a violation in two ways, a player using athletic department phones for excessive personal use, which 99.9% of the time is not a major violation, or the coaching staff made excessive contact with recruits, which is frequently a major violation.
Sure, the press release says possible violations, but the only way they suspend him pre-emptively is if they already know they're violations. The NCAA is the body that definitively determines that they are violations, not the school.
You say the "violations would have been..." which is kind of confusing, but I think implies that there were no violations. The school would not dole out a lengthy pre-emptive suspension if there were no violations.
You make it seem like nothing happened and they just broke a series of rules in technicality only, and not in the spirit of the rule, meaning they didn't really break the rule. I too know someone who works directly in the AD there, specifically within the hockey program, and while he was 100% tight-lipped on what happened, it was made very clear from my conversations with him that something definitely happened, and it was not an irrelevant minor violation.
The only other semi-plausible explanation for this whole scenario would be if he really didn't do anything, and NU was just out to get him for some reason. This scenario makes little sense though because if they went this far to "get him" they likely would have fired him already in the offseason, and reinstating him just before the playoffs wouldn't be consistent with the "out to get him" mentality.
