Quote Originally Posted by KUlawJack View Post
Can you expound a bit for us that don’t know all the history? NCAA sanctions? What were those? Did Hauck have issues?
There wasn't ever anything directly tied to Hauck and I have no reason to believe he was involved in NCAA sanctions. My concern with Hauck was more of an "Us against the World" mentality he pushed in his team that seemed to go a bit too far (like, beyond just football)—in other words, a team culture issue.

The NCAA sanctions mostly stemmed from the so-called "Tasergate" incident when Trumaine Johnson & Gerald Kemp were arrested during a house party a day-or-so after the Griz beat NAU in Flagstaff in 2011. They received free bail money from an extended relative that went outside allowed NCAA rules and also received free legal representation from a Griz-booster law firm (the lawyer was also a relative of an athletic-department employee). Pflugrad & AD Jim O'Day knew about these issues but didn't really do anything about them & appeared to just hope they would go away (Johnson & Kemp continued to play that season). The NCAA then came in and found the usual host of unreported minor violations, in addition to the aforementioned major ones. Also, in a bit of an aside, they apparently found a female assistant AD was banging an athlete (athletes?). As a result, every game after the NAU win from 2011 was vacated in addition to the harmful scholarship penalties. IMO, the Griz probably would've gotten away with a slap on the wrist if Pflugrad & O'Day had been less passive & more proactive.