Raiders HC tight-lipped over NCAA report on his recruiting violations

Antonio Pierce joined the Las Vegas Raiders organization in 2022 as a linebackers coach, quickly rising to interim then full-time head coach in 2023-24.

From 2018 to 2021, he was under then-head coach Herm Edwards at Arizona State, where he held many titles, including assistant coach, head of recruiting, linebackers coach, defensive coordinator and associate head coach.

Both his and Edwards' departures from the program stemmed from alleged recruiting violations, of which the NCAA released a scathing report Thursday detailing the infractions accepted by both men.

According to that report , Pierce was the "quarterback" of organizing improper visits and meetings with recruits for Edwards on and off-campus during the NCAA COVID-19 "dead period," in which no official in-person contact could be had between staff and recruits.

In April, the NCAA "approved a negotiated resolution in which the school and four other individuals agreed to the violations and penalties in this case," including a one-year postseason bowl ban in 2023.

When asked by reporters about the report Friday, Pierce simply replied "no comment," via The Athletic's Tashan Reed .

The NCAA imposed an eight-year "show-cause" order on Pierce, meaning the punishments would carry through if he were to join a new college football staff.

Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio noted Friday that the NCAA punishment is "irrelevant" due to his being employed in the NFL, but "its fair to wonder whether the NFL will impose punishment on Pierce" now that the report's details are now public.

ASU will receive no further punishments after last year's self-imposed bowl ban and reduced scholarship allotments over the last three seasons (including 2024)..

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