University of Maine athletic director Michael Ploszek announced late Friday afternoon he is resigning. The announcement comes on the heels of University of Maine System chancellor J. Michael Orenduff's announcement he found no credence to charges by associate athletic director Anne McCoy that Ploszek told her he was not going to report the discovery of five graduate students' ineligibility to the NCAA. One of those student-athletes was former Black Bear hockey player Patrice Tardif. Orenduff announced last week he was going to examine the athletic department's handling of the ineligibility violations after McCoy claimed independent investigator Stanley Tupper neglected to include in his report testimony from her that said Ploszek told her he was going to handle the violations "in-house." Tupper had been hired by UMaine president Frederick Hutchinson to investigate similar allegations by former compliance officer Linwood "Woody" Carville. In a letter announcing his resignation, Ploszek said it was time for the university to move on. The university has not issued a statement. Ryan Robbins Stodder Hall University of Maine [log in to unmask]