2023 Michigan Season Thread

[Cincydawg]

What do you think the penalty will comprise, if any?

[ELA]

What do you think the penalty will comprise, if any?

This season will play out as normal, Harbaugh will leave for the NFL, victories and banners will come down, and he will get a Show Cause, even though he will never coach in college again.

[847badgerfan]

If that’s the same person, can you go recruit him back here? Really like him. Good guy.

JDR is not his initials. I don't think it's the same person. The state troopers in Indiana call themselves Road Dawgs. We met him at MH's house in Indy and we went to the B1G CCG together, for UW/PSU. Great guy.

[Cincydawg]

College football coaches sound off on sign-stealing amid Michigan investigation: 'Ridiculous what goes on' (247sports.com)
College football coaches sound off on sign-stealing amid Michigan investigation: 'Ridiculous what goes on' (247sports.com)

[ELA]

Deep fake are terrifying and sometimes funny

https://twitter.com/2_Tees/status/1717245928480833878?t=WWuyJKEHF2KXSN8VxfBntQ&s=19

[GopherRock]

What do you think the penalty will comprise, if any?

Eastern Michigan will have their program gutted.

[GopherRock]

JDR is not his initials. I don't think it's the same person. The state troopers in Indiana call themselves Road Dawgs. We met him at MH's house in Indy and we went to the B1G CCG together, for UW/PSU. Great guy.

Was that the one I went to and met you all beforehand? 2016?

[Cincydawg]

Spotlight increases on Jim Harbaugh, Michigan amid sign-stealing saga, reaction says (247sports.com)

[ELA]

I will admit, that story gives off a "How many copies of Catcher in the Rye does Stalions own?" kind of vibe...

It's the one thing that gives at least a tiny amount of credence to the idea that was a lone wolf (and certifiable nutjob) here.

That said, the fact that he's on the payroll and on sidelines with the OC/DC during games would make it hard to believe that he's a lone wolf. The only way it could be possible is if he was telling the UM that he was doing this all from watching games on TV and was hiding the fact that he was buying tickets and sending other people to scout in person in the background.

It seems like there is even more.  People have dug up posts from him on the MGoBlog board from like 2011 and 2012, where other posters are accusing him of just randomly responding with one word responses to tick up his post count, and Devin Gardner said he remembered him waiting outside the team bus.

There's even some suggestion that he joined the Marines specifically as an in with the Michigan football staff.  Like some guys dream of being a football coach, he literally only dreamed of being the Michigan coach.

Forget the Catcher in the Rye type stuff.  I think once he finds out Harbaugh was never going to give him a Quinn Nordin style sleepover, he would boil Jay's pet rabbit

[ELA]

When it comes to bringing down arrogant assholes, who break the rules, even though they are probably going to win, the Washington Post certainly has earned some benefit of the doubt

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/10/25/michigan-computers-sign-stealing-evidence/

The sign-stealing investigation threatening to disrupt Michigan’s football season began after an outside investigative firm approached the NCAA with documents and videos the firm said it had obtained from computer drives maintained and accessed by multiple Michigan coaches, according to two people familiar with the matter,
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Among the pieces of evidence the firm presented, these people said, was a detailed schedule of Michigan’s planned sign-stealing travel for the rest of this season, listing opponents’ schedules, which games Michigan scouts would attend, and how much money was budgeted for travel and tickets to scout each team.

The opponents targeted the most on this schedule, these people said, were not surprising. Atop the list was Ohio State, Michigan’s top rival in the Big Ten, and scouts planned to attend as many as eight games, costing more than $3,000 in travel and tickets. Next on the list was Georgia, a potential Michigan opponent in the College Football Playoff, with four or five games scheduled for in-person scouting and video-recording, also costing more than $3,000 in travel and tickets.
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The outside firm also presented to NCAA officials photographs of people investigators believed to be Michigan scouts in action — including current students interning with the football team. The photos showed these people seated at games of Michigan opponents this season, aiming their cellphones at the sidelines. Days later, the outside firm told the NCAA, cellphone videos depicting the coaching staffs from these games were uploaded to a computer drive maintained and accessed by Stalions as well as several other Michigan assistants and coaches.....

[Cincydawg]

Zounds, if most of this is true .... Eastern Michigan may get the death penalty.

[ELA]

Zounds, if most of this is true .... Eastern Michigan may get the death penalty.

They might nail all 3 directional Michigan schools, and don't forget Brian Kelly got his start at Grand Valley State, so it seems like a good time to bust them for the fact that he killed a kid when he was at Notre Dame.

But in all seriousness, if this is true, there is no way Harbaugh coaches another game

[ELA]

Bob Stoops


"If it's true, oh, absolutely [it is a big deal]. That's ridiculous," Stoops said in an appearance on the Morning Animals radio show. "Everyone (saying), 'Oh, it happens all the time!' No, it doesn't. I've never heard of that. In all my years of football and every team I've ever been on, sure, do we look across the field and if you can see it, that's your job to do. You know what i'm saying, if I'm able to just in my plain eye look over there and know what they're doing, I should be doing that.

"But to video people and to send people to scout and marry up a signal with the play ... No, no, no. That's terrible. It goes against everything we're about. That's wrong, if it happened."

...

"I'm not saying it did (happen with Michigan), but I've never heard of that. I've never been around anybody who's done it," said Stoops, a national title-winning, College Football Hall of Famer.

[MikeDeTiger]

Deep fake are terrifying and sometimes funny

https://twitter.com/2_Tees/status/1717245928480833878?t=WWuyJKEHF2KXSN8VxfBntQ&s=19

That looked like a short clip of the NFL Bad Lip Reading.