what part of he was not retained by Barwis are you guys missing?  He was arrested in January and said he was working with Football players.  This is before Barwis took over.  This has nothing to do at all with Rich Rodriguez or Mike Barwis:

"He was an hourly employee with the former staff in weight andconditioning and had not been retained by the new staff of MikeBarwis," U-M spokesman Dave Ablauf said Thursday. "Because he was anhourly employee retained for a year, he began working with teams inOlympic sports. He has since been relieved of his hourlyresponsibilities, today and until further notice."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/SPORTS06/808080432/1054

Another slow news day, eh guys.  There's nothing to this.  He wasn't working for UM or Barwis so who, exactly, is supposed to be baysitting this guy?

"I have marked down losses for Wisconsin, Michigan State, Penn State, and Ohio State. And then there could be others such as Illinois".-BigHouseFootball March 08

Okay... well, first off... unless my memory is completely mistaken... RR was officially the coach so soon as Lloyd was carried off the field on January 1st. This seems to mean that he was the head coach at the time of the arrest. Probably didn't know much about anybody or anything at that point... but he was the coach. Second, it's not about "babysitting" people. It's about taking some responsibility, coming forth and making a public declaration that this sort of thing is a zero-tolerance issue for your players, and then sitting each and every player down and "reminding" them that this type of action means immediate dismissal.

Maybe the wheels are already in motion. All I'm saying is there's no way RR or MB get away with just sitting on their hands for this one.

The time delays on this make everything confusing, but I think I have it figured out.

In January he was busted with roids.
At that time, he WAS EMPLOYED by UM's strength and conditioning people.

If the story had hit the papers at this time, it would've been HUGE.

When the new staff took over, he was not retained (speculation: they probably knew about the arrest).

Last week he gets indicted which catches the attention of the media and results in these articles.

So yes, he's no longer employed.  But, at the time he was busted with roids he WAS EMPLOYED by the S&C program.  It has nothing to do with Barwis/Richrod, that's true.  But it still looks very bad, and if the old S&C guys were still there, their jobs would be jeopardy over this.

Never thought I would say this, thank you Sir Buckeye

Seems about right SirBuckeye... which is why I hope RR and MB step up and present a clear, strong statement regarding how serious this is.

The Detroit Free Press clarifies Biggs' relationship with the S&C program.  Although he wasn't retained by Barwis, it appears that he was working at Michigan until Thursday:

"He was an hourly employee with the former staff in weight and conditioning and had not been retained by the new staff of Mike Barwis," U-M spokesman Dave Ablauf said Thursday. "Because he was an hourly employee retained for a year, he began working with teams in Olympic sports. He has since been relieved of his hourly responsibilities, today and until further notice."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/SPORTS06/808080432/1054

oh well, pardon me.  Ok he was still retained by an hourly wage.  Im sorry, did they bust barwis, rr, lc? Or any of the kids?? Huh, no? Well it must be a problem then. Just fire everybody, then we will know for sure. That, or we could just put, barwis and rr on an hourly wage, just to  make sure.