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If you care about details, it is probably best to read the actual NCAA report on the matter. That can be found here:
http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/...160915.pdf

On falsifying reports, there are several references, perhaps the most clear is:

In  addition,  the  former  head  softball  coach routinely submitted inaccurate CARA reports to the  compliance staff that did not reflect actual time spent in CARA.

CARA = Countable Athletically Related Activity, primarily the limit on practice hours.

Details aren't necessarily of interest, but facts are.  Thanks!

Interesting, differing accounts in the same document:

Further, the  parties  agreed  that,  during  a  four-year  period  from  2010  to  2014, 
the  softball coaching  staff permitted  certain  softball  student-athletes to  participate
in impermissible countable athletically related  activities  (CARA).   
As  a  result  of  this  impermissible  CARA,  and  occasional  failure  to
accurately  record  CARA  hours,  the  head  softball  coach
failed  to  promote  an  atmosphere  of compliance.

Specifically,  CARA  limits  were  violated  when  four  to  six
student-athletes participated  in  bullpen  sessions  that  were  not  counted  toward  the
student-athletes' daily and weekly CARA limits. On some other occasions, the
softball team's daily practice activities also exceeded CARA limits. On some of those
occasions, the former head softball failed to record an accurate amount of time
the softball student-athletes participated in CARA

"Routinely" & "occasional" seem very opposite descriptions!  As I read the sentence with "routinely", I can take it to mean that Rittman routinely (as in, prepared "by rote or habit") submitted CARA reports (of which some (on some of those other occasions) were inaccurate), but I am not sure that was that was the authors' intent.  When I read the "occasional" sentence, it is hard to understand "routinely" as "commonly."  It is hard for me to fathom a consistent explanation of those two references otherwise.

The NCAA took this as a Level-II violation by the coach, but the penalty seems a lot like taking a Driver's Ed class after getting a moving violation.  It seemingly didn't prevent his employment as a NCAA softball coach (albeit associate head coach rather than head coach).

I also note that I see no sense of "cover-up" in the NCAA statements. 

My take (your take may be different) is that the team disintegrated under him, Stanford found a brake-light violation to pull him over, and the rest is history.  No doubt he was responsible (whether the cause or not) for the team's situation. 

[M T]

If you care about details, it is probably best to read the actual NCAA report on the matter. That can be found here:
http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/...160915.pdf

On falsifying reports, there are several references, perhaps the most clear is:

In  addition,  the  former  head  softball  coach routinely submitted inaccurate CARA reports to the  compliance staff that did not reflect actual time spent in CARA.

CARA = Countable Athletically Related Activity, primarily the limit on practice hours.

Details aren't necessarily of interest, but facts are.  Thanks!

Interesting, differing accounts in the same document:

Further, the  parties  agreed  that,  during  a  four-year  period  from  2010  to  2014, 
the  softball coaching  staff permitted  certain  softball  student-athletes to  participate
in impermissible countable athletically related  activities  (CARA).   
As  a  result  of  this  impermissible  CARA,  and  occasional  failure  to
accurately  record  CARA  hours,  the  head  softball  coach
failed  to  promote  an  atmosphere  of compliance.

Specifically,  CARA  limits  were  violated  when  four  to  six
student-athletes participated  in  bullpen  sessions  that  were  not  counted  toward  the
student-athletes' daily and weekly CARA limits. On some other occasions, the
softball team's daily practice activities also exceeded CARA limits. On some of those
occasions, the former head softball failed to record an accurate amount of time
the softball student-athletes participated in CARA

"Routinely" & "occasional" seem very opposite descriptions!  As I read the sentence with "routinely", I can take it to mean that Rittman routinely (as in, prepared "by rote or habit") submitted CARA reports (of which some (on some of those other occasions) were inaccurate), but I am not sure that was that was the authors' intent.  When I read the "occasional" sentence, it is hard to understand "routinely" as "commonly."  It is hard for me to fathom a consistent explanation of those two references otherwise.

The NCAA took this as a Level-II violation by the coach, but the penalty seems a lot like taking a Driver's Ed class after getting a moving violation.  It seemingly didn't prevent his employment as a NCAA softball coach (albeit associate head coach rather than head coach).

I also note that I see no sense of "cover-up" in the NCAA statements. 

My take (your take may be different) is that the team disintegrated under him, Stanford found a brake-light violation to pull him over, and the rest is history.  No doubt he was responsible (whether the cause or not) for the team's situation.