Two former Michigan football coaches settle with NCAA, receive penalties

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A pair of former Michigan football coaches have agreed to separate resolutions with the NCAA for recruiting transgressions during their tenure in Ann Arbor.

The agreements for Jesse Minter, the Wolverines’ defensive coordinator in 2022 and 2023, and Steve Clinkscale, U-M’s defensive backs coach from 2021-23, were both approved by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, allowing them to begin serving the punishments immediately.

Minter acknowledged “multiple” impermissible recruiting contacts prior to June 15 of the pending recruits’ sophomore season in high school, which is against NCAA rules. According to the NCAA’s release, Minter “was aware that these communications were impermissible but did not report the violations to the school’s compliance department.”

As a result, Minter, who is now the defensive coordinator under former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh for the Los Angeles Chargers, has accepted a one-year show-cause order. It states that any institution which may employ him is obligated to restrict him from “any athletically-related position.”

The entire release can be found here.

Clinkscale, meanwhile, agreed to violations with the committee that acknowledged giving impermissible benefits to potential recruits and/or their families during active recruitment.

Additionally, the committee and Clinkscale both agreed that following his departure from Ann Arbor, when he too joined Harbaugh in L.A., he “failed to fully satisfy his obligation to cooperate with the investigation” by not providing “complete information” during an interview before later noting the violations which occurred and his role in them.

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Publish date : 2025-04-29 00:52:00

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