Posted on 03/27/2025 5:42:58 PM PDT by Jumper
Institutions like the military and colleges are sometimes said to mirror society. One can only wonder where we are headed as a Country, but more importantly we must ask if individual schools are trend setters. Take the Ivy Leauge schools and their affinity for foreign students who hate America, or how they pushed degrees without merit until DEI created a need for the degrees.
In sports cheating is usually limited to gaining an edge on the field... sometimes fame, power or money are additional motivators.
Take Michigan University and the Athletic Program as a whole. Multiple team sports were cheating in a number of ways. But Michigan Football has set the bar for a totally emcompassing enterprise of cheating on steroids.
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Good. It makes me want to puke when I hear of kids going to a college because of their football team. How purely pathetic.
It’s even worse when entire families are raised as die hard XXXXXX University football fans.
I worked for a guy who was a hard core Michigan football fan. This idiot even had a custom van painted with the school logo.
The closest this Nobel Laureate ever got to any college was when he bought a ticket.
I felt some Schadenfreud when his van was stolen and chopped into little parts. He had fired me a few months before for refusing to come to work two 12 hour shifts offsite fifty miles away on my scheduled weekend off.
Well, I guess hanging up on him when he called at midnight to tell me to be on site at 7 am
May have had something to do with it.
I was also a minor and his order broke state work rules.
And I’ll still wear my Barstool shirt highlighting the Michigan victories. You can pry that from my cold dead hand.
D1 sports are just bad pro sports now. How can universities run multiple pro sports leagues all tax free?
Fortunately, I had “freeper bragging about cheating at football” on my card.
BINGO!
GOOD. Anything to get American men to STOP obsessing over sports and focused on POLITICS - national and local - and canceling out the votes and policies of insane women.
“Gary from Dayton” LOL! Thank you for your definitely unbiased opinion on Michigan football.
No one can prepare you for the entertainment coming your way if you listened to the UM and their media adjuncts.
What I can admit to is the curisoty as to the final judgment. In a few weeks even the most diehard Ichigan Fan (man) will want this behind them.
The cost of what Harbuagh brought has yet to resonate with the faithful.
In a few weeks it will be okay to say you were wrong about your opinion of your program. It’s not your fault, the FBI had to get their pound of flesh first and unfortunately the administration at Mich decided to lie to the base. You will have a right to be PO’d.
Las Vagas Gambling Commission to FBI & State Police; State Police and University to NCAA. Lawyers to Michigan. Sports beat writers will never have a down day over the next few months. Maybe it will be over by Christmas... no post season this year, next or the year after. 40 wins erased from the record books.
And yea, we’ll take that 4-0 the past four years and turn it into 1-3. Mich is 30 games from a thousand as it now looks.
Michigan Shirt and Hat sales have dropped off at a time when they got a natty. Seems a lot of folks can smell the stink.
If we could keep the girls from the women perps at the colleges there might not be as many insaine libtard women.
But anyhow, if coaches want to micromanage from the sidelines, it’s up to them to hide their signals and shield their faces so the lip readers can’t do their thing. If you can catch another team’s signals, good for you.
Sign stealing as most teams attempt to do it is not against the rules.
But Michigan
1. Used electronic recordng devices
2. Had employees and surrogates illegally attend opponents' games with tickets provided to position their spies in the stands opposite the future opponent's sideline for the best view of their coaches signals to the players on the field, to electronically record those coaches' signals and then combine the illegally recorded sideline signals with legal game video to decipher what signals lead to which plays
3. Had a coach (Stallions) on the sideline of a future opponent's stadium, disguised as one of the visiting team's coaches (Central Michigan at Michigan State)
4. A "low level staffer" (Stallions) who used the collected video analysis to make charts to hold up to Michigan players before each play so they knew what the offensive play call or defensive coverage was going to be so Michigan players knew ahead of the snap what was going to happen.
5. "Low level staffer" stood next to Michigan's OC and DC during all their games, yelling the opponent's play call so the OC or DC could signal the Michigan 11 what to prepare for before the snap.
These are all in violation of NCAA rules, and have not been done by any other team trying to decipher opponent's signs. It is beyond the level of the Houston Astros 2017-2018 bang the trash barrel cheating scheme.
Trying to steal and decipher an opponent's signals during the game itself is fair game. Recording those signals at other games not involving your own team is a serious violation of NCAA rules.
Now the NCAA allows headset communications with the coaches and the QB or Defensive Captain. Imagine if a team hacked the encripted radio transmission of their opponent's calls. That would be the same kind of cheater's advantage that Michigan accomplished with their illegally acquired video that threatens the integrity of the game itself.
Good thing: St Francis a D1 school just shifted to D3. Reason: didn’t believe the current state of D1 athletic was conducive to their athletes learning, making friends, learning social skills, how to think, etc. Didn’t like NIL, direct play to athletes,Good for them. Would be nice to see more of that.
And M lost to Ohio State eight times in a row before your little streak. I think Ohio State is something like 17-7 since 2000. So go BLOW
The OSU Suckeyes are trying to lecture us U of M fans about integrity!
1. The Ohio State University abuse scandal centered on allegations of sexual abuse that occurred between 1978 and 1998, while Richard Strauss was employed as a physician by the Ohio State University (OSU) in the Athletics Department.
2.OSU announced that football coach Urban Meyer has been placed on administrative leave after a report claimed that he knew about domestic abuse allegations against a member of his coaching staff in 2015.
3.Tressel was dismissed after the 2010 season because of Tatoogate. One of the major players involved in that scandal was quarterback Terrell Pryor. He was the face of the scandal with him being the starting quarterback.
4.In April of 2004, Jim O’Brien was forced to disclose the payment of $6,000 to Aleksandar Radojevic. Radojevic, a 7’3” center, was being recruited by O’Brien at the time. Radojevic never signed with Ohio State.
5.2024 The Ohio State athletic department has self-reported four minor NCAA violations in football since last summer, according to a document obtained by The Dispatch through a public records request.
There are more. When college sports has this much $$ there will be a lot of shenanigans...by all.
Why are students putting pornographic pictures of themselves on their student accounts? Are professors or prospective employers requiring them?
Connor Stalions abd Matt Weiss are two concurrent staff members using electronic methods to cheat.
Weiss had login credentials to Ohio State and Penn State.
Connor is known to have had 60 plus games pre scouted and recorded using dozens of people.
No brought up Michigan and their pervert scandal that is recent history.
To get on a high horse defending a university that did what we know... e.g., Mich... who have been under federal indictments until literally JUST NOW, means that after the FBI comes State, Local LE, the Las Vagas Gambling Commission, the Class action and other Civil law suits... and then only now can the B1G & NCAA deal with Michigan.
You are delusional to think Harbaugh only ran a Stalions cheating Operation... Jim was desperate and had Weiss at the same time infiltrating the PSU & OSU FB Program electronic systems. Credentials logging onto other teams files definitely tops Connor Stalions little video game day schemes.
Michigan is the poster child for loss of institutional control.
3,300 plus kids were hacked.
Was Weiss responsible for Wiskeys’ VB nudes?
Now we know why Weiss bragged ge know who be playing rather than questionable or game time decisions.
Keep digging up old history.
SCUM is only now having evidence come to light with the Fed’s finishing up.
The entire premiss of this thread was to alert people that the Federal Investigation is over and the rest of the evidence about 2020-2024 will be coming out.
I am sure it only gets worse for Michigan and Harbaugh and the school president.
Care to place a wager on your on Michigan being the first school to break a 1000 wins twice... after expunging their record between 2020-2024.
Care to wager 35+ games will be removed from the win total?
How about a bet on Moore being fired.
Does the civil cases exceed 1B in damages?
I too think my school’s rivals suck and they should have the hammer of the gods brought down upon them.
Don’t we all feel that way?
Most assuredly ... yes.
GO NAVY!
West Point delenda est.
We probably will. It’s going to be the (bad) pros at the big Unis and back to scholarship amateurs at the mid majors.
There’ll be TV money for real amateurs after the dust settles.
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