APRemember how Mississippi State wide receivers coach Angelo Mirando resigned suddenly for “personal issues” and was soon (reportedly) replaced by former Minnesota coach Tim Brewster?
Well, we may finally know what was so “personal” for Mirando.
Earlier on Thursday, ESPN’s Joe Schad tweeted that Mirando resigned ”in the wake of an ongoing NCAA investigation into his recruitment of at least one Bulldogs player.”
That player would later be identified as freshman Will Redmond; the “irregularity” reportedly involves a car.
While the school has not officially confirmed or denied that report, it did release a statement a short time later admitting the Association was poking around for “recruiting irregularity.” Here is that statement, courtesy of Brandon Marcello of the Clarion-Ledger.
Over the last several months, Mississippi State has worked in cooperation with the NCAA to examine a potential recruiting irregularity. We are nearing the end of this examination, and it is our intent to provide additional details when it is complete.
Exactly what kind of irregularity? No idea, but one coach has already stepped down from his position in what we can rationally assume is more than just convenient timing.
Still, Dan Mullen wouldn’t allude to anything ongoing.
“Yeah, he’s practicing,” Mullen said of Redmond. ”I would try to get a little more reliable source than Joe Schad.” (laughing) “I’m supposed to be coaching at State College (Penn State), I guess, right now, too, according to Joe Schad last year. Wasn’t that the case?”
NCAA investigating???
Why don’t they just have Freeh make another report?
Cue the useless cam bashing. Maybe the problem was always with Miss State?
This is not good news for the Bulldogs. As we are at the start of the 2012 football season, this is not good news all around.
How thick of a book is the NCAA Compliance Regulations? Is it as thick as the U.S. Federal Income Tax law and regulations? I know every college has a “Compliance Department” but there needs to be some simplification to the NCAA regs.
There are rumors that there are several other major NCAA investigations into recruiting violations of some major programs. Guess details on that will be coming forth soon.
Typical SEC recruiting. The NCAA will hammer lowly MSU, but leave the top tiered teams alone.
Institutional control issue, Death Penalty is warranted no doubt.
Anybody hear the annoying buzzing of angry bitter PSU fans?
@dkhhuey
I think you are right, and I might add maybe a bitter USC fan? ha.
It’s amazing how Bamer can openly cheat, with no action by the NCAA! What went on with Trent Richardson should have been investigated! They will go after Miss State, though!
Bitter? Not I my friend, just sick of the SEC recruiting “irregularities”.
Good gosh! What is there 3-4 on probation in the Big Ten or whatever it’s called. OSU, PSU and Michigan State. Grow up and stop the kid temper tantrums about the SEC.
Ha. After all of those Miss St. fans and Coaches started pointing fingers during the scandal….
Karma is a b*tch.
War Eagle.
No big time program is squeaky clean, way to many people to keep an eye on. My question is, why would the ncaa give to sec teams a pass? Excuses, excuses, excuses. Top tier teams across the country get good players, thats the breaks. Alabama, auburn, usc, ohio state, and michigan are all elite programs that have been hit hard at some point by the ncaa. There is no conspiracy, programs with good tradition and great coaches recruit and land great players. I guess there always has to be a reason when someone fails, ofc it can not be their own fault…
Great answer Dan! Great answer!
jrcurtis45:
Would you be so kind as to explain what supposedly went on with Trent Richardson? I keep hearing people saying “Bama cheats!!!” but no one ever seems to produce anything specific. And even when it is shown to be nothing to get upset about–or even a figment of someone’s imagination–they continue to talk about it.
Trust me, if the NCAA took down USC and OSU, it will be more than happy to nail Alabama should there be any proof of wrongdoing. It has done so in the past; I don’t know why you think it would not want to do so now.
dcroz and jrcurtis45:
I am a live-hard LSU Tiger and SEC fan. Though I am highly partisan, I try to be fair. If there was a scandal or irregularity concerning Trent, I think I would have heard of it, unless it just broke in the past few hours.
What is this concerning “what went on with Trent Richardson…”?
Investigate Miss State, but ignore wholesale academic fraud involving the UNC basketball team and football teams and who knows who else. Only the ncaa could ignore its prime mission and feel good about itself.
Re: Trent….he signed some jerseys and things for a local store called T-Town Menswear. So did AJ McCarron and a few other players. Problem is, there was no proof (or even an accusation, really) that they received anything whatsoever in return, which is what creates the violation. Nothing at all wrong with signing some items for someone else for free….that’s no different than if Trent had signed some kid’s game program outside the stadium. Both the school’s compliance department and the SEC investigated, and found nothing, so the NCAA didn’t bother. As much of a micro-manager as Saban supposedly is, do you think for a second he’d let his well-oiled machine get derailed by his players selling autographs and then posting the proof on Facebook? Come on…..
The head of the NCAA has all thos power now. Why can’t he just get past the years long investigations and simply say:
If you broke a minor rule(small infractions from the book)-Small scholarship reduction
If you broke a big rule(once again in the book)-Bigger scholarship reduction, 1 yr postseason ban, 1 yr suspension for player & coaches involved
Repeat violators – Big time reduction in scholarships, multi-year postseason ban & multi-year suspension of players & coaches
I don’t see the point in Mark Emmert getting all this power if he only uses it once? No more long investigations punish as you see fit, that’s why your paid almost seven figures for the job.
To add to thegeneral7694′s statement, someone even produced a picture of Richardson signing autographs in a mall alleged to be University Mall in Tuscaloosa where T-Town Menswear is located–including on a jersey that had a price tag clearly dangling from it– as “proof” of his wrongdoing. Said photo was even posted here on CFT. It was obvious to anyone who knows anything about University Mall that the picture was not taken there, as there were escalators and staircases in the background, and University Mall is on a single level. The picture was, in fact, taken at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover at SEC Media Days, and the jerseys were being bought by fans at the Bama Fever in the mall and brought to Richardson for his autograph.
The owner of T-Town Menswear was also displaying autographed pictures of the players at his store, which is not allowed by the NCAA, but again, the players received no compensation for it, they have no control over what fans do with things they autographs, and the university told the owner to remove the pictures several times before finally disassociating him from the program, all within NCAA guidelines. Some alleged that the suits Richardson and others wore on game days that were from T-Town Menswear were the compensation, but they were acquired under the clothing allowance permitted under NCAA rules and were returned when no longer needed.
As thegeneral stated above, Alabama contacted the SEC office when it discovered the possibility of rules violations concerning T-Town Menswear and asked for advice on how to proceed–again, all within NCAA guidelines. The SEC investigated and found no wrongdoing, then forwarded its findings to the NCAA which agreed. Again, it was investigated and nothing improper was found. But that doesn’t stop people like jrcurtis45 and others from claiming otherwise.
dcroz:
Thanks for the info. Thought that stuff was nothing when it came out originally…much ado about nothing.
I think much like alligatorsnapper that if there was any smoke, not even a fire, just smoke, some of the dung beetles in the media would have caught it just to make a story and get some headlines.
Thanks for giving us that info. I hope that is the end of it again.
And trojanforlife responds by saying he’s sick of SEC irregularities? How could you come on here and make such an idiotic statement? When the Trojans just got off of probation, had to give back a championship, and a Heisman. Bite on! Bite on!