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This is fantastic. NCAA: If you don't stop making fun of us, we'll suspend your client.
Mars' tweets are worth the click.
Mars' tweets are worth the click.
The NCAA threatened to suspend former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh last fall if his attorney did not halt his satirical social media comments of the association's ongoing investigation of the Wolverines football program.
In a "letter of admonition" to attorney Thomas Mars obtained by CBS Sports, current NCAA Committee on Infractions chair Dave Roberts wrote in October 2023 that if Mars didn't halt his posts criticizing the NCAA's investigative process "the COI will consider appropriate penalties, including immediate suspension of your client."
The letter ends with seemingly a final warning from Roberts that read, "There will not be any further admonitions …"
Mars did not respond to the NCAA and continued his critical posts but it seems Roberts took no further action.
Mars also said at one point the NCAA demanded all of Harbaugh's texts and emails for the last 2 ½ years. That request included all personal emails, Mars said. He requested the NCAA limit the scope of the request to Michigan athletics but was told no. The NCAA wanted in 24 hours what Mars said were 6,199 emails and at least that number of texts.
"At which point I said, 'OK, you're not getting any of them … ,' " Mars told CBS Sports. "It's an invasion not even the Justice Department is allowed to do."
In a "letter of admonition" to attorney Thomas Mars obtained by CBS Sports, current NCAA Committee on Infractions chair Dave Roberts wrote in October 2023 that if Mars didn't halt his posts criticizing the NCAA's investigative process "the COI will consider appropriate penalties, including immediate suspension of your client."
The letter ends with seemingly a final warning from Roberts that read, "There will not be any further admonitions …"
Mars did not respond to the NCAA and continued his critical posts but it seems Roberts took no further action.
Mars also said at one point the NCAA demanded all of Harbaugh's texts and emails for the last 2 ½ years. That request included all personal emails, Mars said. He requested the NCAA limit the scope of the request to Michigan athletics but was told no. The NCAA wanted in 24 hours what Mars said were 6,199 emails and at least that number of texts.
"At which point I said, 'OK, you're not getting any of them … ,' " Mars told CBS Sports. "It's an invasion not even the Justice Department is allowed to do."
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