UM football coach Al Golden acknowledged Friday morning that a number of players on his Hurricanes squad were declared ineligible late Thursday and that the university will await a decision on the NCAA on their reinstatement.

He did not say how many or which players were declared ineligible for allegedly receiving impermissible benefits from former booster Nevin Shapiro.

A person with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press on Thursday that Miami is awaiting rulings on eight players, including quarterback Jacory Harris. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one is authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigations by the university and the NCAA.

University officials would not confirm the number of reinstatements being sought.

"They're eligible to practice," Golden said. "We have filed paperwork to the NCAA as of late last night, which is part of the normal process."

Declaring the players ineligible will impel the NCAA to rule on those players before UM's season opener against Maryland on September 5.

"The only entity that can reinstate them is the NCAA," said Golden. "So now we've done our part. We're waiting. Of course, there's going to be follow-ups from the NCAA standpoint. We've done our part from this end, and it's up to the NCAA to reinstate them."

Golden said he wasn't allowed to discuss specifics about the players who have been declared ineligible.

"It's an ongoing investigation," Golden said. "I'm not allowed to comment on that. Again, we've been most respectful to the process here from the NCAA and been extremely cooperative, so I'm not going to deviate from that path right now."

The NCAA will decide not only if the players can be reinstated, but what penalty they need to serve, if any. Being suspended for games is a common penalty in eligibility-related matters, though if the violations are deemed to be small, sometimes players receive sanctions that do not include missing any time.

Besides Harris, the other football players named by Shapiro for a story published by Yahoo! Sports last week are Sean Spence, Vaughn Telemaque, Ray Ray Armstrong, Travis Benjamin, Aldarius Johnson, Marcus Forston, Olivier Vernon, Marcus Robinson, Adewale Ojomo, Dyron Dye and JoJo Nicholas.

For the portion of practice open to media Friday, neither Dye nor Nicholas was seen on the field. The reason for Dye's absence is unclear. Nicholas has been dealing for several days with the death of a prematurely born child.

"We'll fight through this," Golden said. "Hurricanes always have."