I don't now why a regent would know about such things. He may have been told this happened, but being told a thing and knowing it are ...
Maybe OSU did hire a PI firm, let's see the evidence, and of course doing so wouldn't be against rules.
Nah.. let’s not do that. Let’s post 15 different Twitter feeds showing the indisputable facts because they’re from a team’s fan base and then claim anyone questioning it is just deflecting. That’s the new normal. And if you just want to wait until the facts come out, you’re just supporting cheating.
Note that
@Cincydawg was asking to see the evidence that tOSU hired a PI firm.
It is a fair point because this has been thrown out by the Michigan faithful and actually caused Ryan Day and his family to receive death threats but there has been zero evidence. Bottom line, Ryan Day got death threats because Michigan cheated and lied about it.
Aside from that, Cincy's comment after the request for evidence is important. The Michigan "insiders" have been wrong at every step of this process. Even if we assume that this time they are right and this whole Michigan cheating ring was exposed by Ryan Day/Ohio State, so what? Are
@MrNubbz ,
@Honestbuckeye , and I supposed to be ashamed that our school caught yours cheating and turned them in to the NCAA? As I read it this argument boils down to:
- Ohio State fan: "Michigan cheated"
- Michigan response: "You turned us in"
Do you Michigan guys actually see this as a "gotcha"?
Let me just say right here and now, if my school discovered Michigan's cheating and turned them in, that breaks no rules and I'm glad my guys were out there protecting the integrity of the game from the cheaters in Ann Arbor.
I don't think this is completely impossible. I think we've all seen the clip from the first drive of The Game last year where Stalions decodes Ohio State's signals and points up to indicate pass then basically the entire Michigan sideline points up (because they were all in on it). It is entirely possible that the tOSU coaches noticed that (or something like it) when reviewing tape of The Game from 2022 then started digging. Maybe they looked through Michigan's list of coaches and discovered that one of their names matched a buyer of tickets to multiple Ohio State games during the 2022 season. Then they could potentially have reviewed surveillance tapes from the stadium and figured out that the guy in the seat bought by Connor Stalions at say the Indiana appeared to be filming the tOSU sideline. Then maybe they checked with some friendly AD's around the league and discovered that Stalions had bought tickets to games in their stadiums as well, then they went to the NCAA.
I am not completely ruling out this possibility but I do have two comments about it:
First, see above, it wouldn't bother me in the least nor would it indicate any violation of rules, ethics, or integrity by Ohio State if it was 100% true.
Second, this is extraordinarily unlikely. Even if Ohio State did notice this, nobody would assume that the cheaters would be so monumentally stupid as to use THEIR OWN CREDIT CARD to buy the advance scouting tickets. For now my theory is that this either grew out of the Weiss investigation or there was a whistle-blower.