Antonio Pierce joined the Las Vegas Raiders group in 2022 as a linebackers coach, shortly rising to interim then full-time head coach in 2023-24.
From 2018 to 2021, he was beneath then-head coach Herm Edwards at Arizona State, the place he held many titles, together with assistant coach, head of recruiting, linebackers coach, defensive coordinator and affiliate head coach.
Each his and Edwards’ departures from this system stemmed from alleged recruiting violations, of which the NCAA released a scathing report Thursday detailing the infractions accepted by each males.
In response to that report, Pierce was the “quarterback” of organizing improper visits and conferences with recruits for Edwards on and off-campus in the course of the NCAA COVID-19 “useless interval,” during which no official in-person contact could possibly be had between workers and recruits.
In April, the NCAA “permitted a negotiated decision during which the college and 4 different people agreed to the violations and penalties on this case,” together with a one-year postseason bowl ban in 2023.
When requested by reporters concerning the report Friday, Pierce merely replied “no remark,” through The Athletic’s Tashan Reed.
The NCAA imposed an eight-year “show-cause” order on Pierce, which means the punishments would carry by means of if he had been to hitch a brand new faculty soccer workers.
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio noted Friday that the NCAA punishment is “irrelevant” as a result of his being employed within the NFL, however “it’s honest to wonder if the NFL will impose punishment on Pierce” now that the report’s particulars are actually public.
ASU will receive no further punishments after final yr’s self-imposed bowl ban and lowered scholarship allotments during the last three seasons (together with 2024).
