From the Shreveport Times. BATON ROUGE — LSU is still investigating possible NCAA violations concerning its football program and may be for some time, LSU associate athletic director Herb Vincent said on Tuesday.



"There is no timetable," Vincent said. "When the investigation is completed it will be submitted to the Southeastern Conference office, and then the findings will be released to the public. Ideally, we would not have released anything until the investigation was complete."
Vincent said LSU athletic director Joe Alleva released a statement about the possible violation that involves an assistant coach and one current player after the Baton Rouge Advocate capitol news bureau was in the process of breaking the story along with a television station in New Orleans.


"We started getting inquiries from the media about it and released a comment to those asking about it," Vincent said. "Then other media outlets saw the first reports and began asking about it, so we released it to all the media outlets."


Other LSU officials have confirmed the assistant coach in question is receivers coach D.J. McCarthy and that the possible violations may concern the amount of recruiting contact with the player, who signed last February and remains on the team but did not see any action this season.
Illegal contact with players are usually considered minor violations by the NCAA. LSU self-reported improper telephone and personal contact by former LSU coach Nick Saban in 2002, and Saban received a light penalty for the secondary violation that limited his contact with recruits in the spring.


LSU's release made it clear that the player has not seen action this season, thus ruling out any chance of game forfeits being part of any possible penalty.


McCarthy, who was one of the only assistants not to get a raise last spring, has been at LSU since the 2007 season when he left the receivers coach position at UCLA. McCarthy interviewed for an assistant coaching job with the Denver Broncos after the 2007 season and served as a secondary and special teams assistant coach with the Oakland Raiders from1998-2000.



He did not return a call and a text Tuesday.
The players McCarthy primarily recruitied from the 2009 class who have not played this season are junior college transfer defensive tackle Akiem Hicks of Sacramento City Community College in California, defensive end Bennie Logan of Red River High in Coushatta, tailback Michael Ford of Leesville and defensive tackle Chris Davenport of Mansfield.


McCarthy also recruited cornerback Morris Claiborne of Fair Park High School and No. 1-ranked wide receiver Rueben Randle of Bastrop, but those two each played this season.


McCarthy and former LSU running backs coach Larry Porter, who is now Memphis' head coach, also recruited Bastrop wide receiver DeAngelo Benton, who decided to go to Auburn on the eve of signing day last February when LSU pulled back its scholarship offer.