My favorite part of the letter is there a response to Michigan’s “claims“ that Ohio State, Rutgers and Purdue are in collusion:
If Stalions coordinating with third parties to perform in-person scouting on opponents violates the scouting rule, then it appears that other teams may also be violating the rule by employing each others' employees to scout their opponents in person,” Manuel wrote.
That said, there is no NCAA rule against decoding signals based on broadcast footage or All-22 film, nor is there an NCAA rule against coaching staff sharing signals with one another. While the NCAA told the Big Ten it “knew and could prove” Michigan’s scheme violated NCAA rules by scouting opponents in-person and filming opponents for the purpose of stealing their signals, Petitti wrote that the Big Ten “has not received any information that any other member schools engaged in impermissible advance in-person scouting.” “The Conference is unmoved by the University’s attempt to downplay its impermissible conduct by asserting that other Conference members may have engaged in sign decoding. As the University readily admits in its response, it does not know the exact methods that it alleges other teams used to decode its own signs,” Petitti wrote. “The Conference has not received any information that any other member schools engaged in impermissible advance in-person scouting, let alone a scheme of the size and scale like the one at issue here. The Conference is unaware of any active NCAA investigations into impermissible advance scouting involving other members of the Conference.
Both the above, which I just posted in the false information about Ryan day, which caused him to get death threats are really amazing, false narratives, put out there in a major way.
Like I said, before, I couldn’t care less if Michigan gets punished or not. But I think it’s sad how they try to drag others down with them.
Glad Pettiti called them out on that.
