Purdue (6-3, 8-4) vs #2 Michigan (9-0, 12-0) Game Week Thread

[FearlessF]

they have God on their side

[ELA]

So he played in how many games since the charges?

Yet every MSU player, including those who weren't charged with anything, and all but one were charged with misdemeanors have been suspended since the next day.

Nice double standard

[Temp430]

I think I'll wait until I hear the details before I try to make some kind of moral equivalence argument with what Sparty did in Michigan's tunnel.

[ELA]

I think I'll wait until I hear the details before I try to make some kind of moral equivalence argument with what Sparty did in Michigan's tunnel.

You mean before you say Michigan has a thug culture?

[Honestbuckeye]

Looks like Michigan DT Mazi Smith will be out for the Big Ten championship game.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/2022/12/01/michigan-wolverines-mazi-smith-charged-with-carrying-concealed-weapon/69692002007/

How do figure he will be out?   This happened on October 7th.   Interesting timing.   

[Temp430]

How do figure he will be out?  This happened on October 7th.  Interesting timing. 

Don't know, just a guess from an optics point of view.  Apparently he was not arrested at the time.  Timing makes it very puzzling. 

[ELA]

Warde and Harbaugh confirm that they trust Mazi and he'll be allowed to play...after demanding in a press conference that every MSU player be charged.

I wonder if Warde did clarify that Mazi wil not be able to borrow his car to drive drunk, crash it, and give the cops a fake name, with zero questions asked, as Michigan captains are typically allowed to under his watch.  It sure seems like the point of the Ann Arbor police force is to take care of Michigan athletics

[Temp430]

Detroit News updated it's story...

"We are aware of the charge against Mazi from a traffic stop back in October," Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said in a statement Thursday. "Mazi was honest, forthcoming and cooperative from the very beginning and is a tremendous young man. He is not and never has been considered a threat to the University or community.

"Based on the information communicated to us, we will continue to allow the judicial process to play out. Mazi will continue to participate as a member of the team."



Having read that I'm guessing little to nothing will come of the charge.  Now go make O'Connell's life Hell for 60 minutes.

[ELA]

Detroit News updated it's story...

"We are aware of the charge against Mazi from a traffic stop back in October," Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said in a statement Thursday. "Mazi was honest, forthcoming and cooperative from the very beginning and is a tremendous young man. He is not and never has been considered a threat to the University or community.

"Based on the information communicated to us, we will continue to allow the judicial process to play out. Mazi will continue to participate as a member of the team."



Having read that I'm guessing little to nothing will comes of the charge. 

So your take is players with pending felony charges should play until everything plays out?  Woudn't be the first Michigan football star to have a gun charge dropped in recent memory.  I'm sure the Detroit media will make sure its framed correctly

[Temp430]

Warde and Harbaugh confirm that they trust Mazi and he'll be allowed to play...after demanding in a press conference that every MSU player be charged.

I wonder if Warde did clarify that Mazi wil not be able to borrow his car to drive drunk, crash it, and give the cops a fake name, with zero questions asked, as Michigan captains are typically allowed to under his watch.  It sure seems like the point of the Ann Arbor police force is to take care of Michigan athletics

Maybe if Mazi gave someone a concussion or beat someone with it he'd have been suspended?

[ELA]

As I've posted many times here before, in fifth grade our DARE officer told us, in a 1993 "boys will be boys" laugh it off story, that any AA officer who picked up a football player was supposed to take them to Bo's house, and not book them.

It's clear nothing has changed in 30 years.

At least I know any fake high ground Michigan ever claimed is 100% gone.  UM felony charge = let the system play out.  MSU misdemeanor charge = suspended indefinitely.

At least one program has accountability.  Although in fairness, maybe Mazi gave the cop a fake name, because, again, Ann Arbor police have proven that is how you get out of any trouble as a UM athlete.

[Temp430]

I think you have to look at what actually happened and not the citation code words felony and misdemeanor before you jump off a cliff.  

[SuperMario]

Weird comparison to the MSU situation. Those guys were caught on video swinging helmets and trying to stomp on guys and was a National story.

We actually know zero details here. Did he have a firearm under a seat in his car? Was it his car? Was he walking around with a firearm concealed?

He could very well be in the wrong, but we don’t even know the story yet.

[Temp430]

Historically, Ann Arbor police have been quite adverse to Michigan athletes.  If this happened to one of Dantonio's thugs the East Lansing police probably would have loaded and test fired the pistol for them. /s