billy.pilgrim wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:40 pm
The lack of investigation is also a bit strange. Nana pays their top basketball player no problem, Auburn assistant coach pays player’s mom 1/10 the amount and he’s out for a year and a half.
Or runs a gun used in a murder - no big deal
Football players have their autographs sold in the mall.
Nice to see the ncaa investigating this sign stealing incident, too bad they never investigated nick and Kirby for doing the same at bama.
https://www.on3.com/news/college-footba ... p-at-no-1/
You didn't link a "sign stealing incident". Here:
Sources: Michigan staffer had tickets at 11 Big Ten schools
Speaking of cheaters, this is huge.
Connor Stalions, the suspended Michigan staffer at the center of the NCAA's sign-stealing probe, purchased tickets in his own name for more than 30 games over the past three years at 11 different Big Ten schools, sources at 11 different league schools told ESPN.
The scope of the University of Michigan's alleged sign-stealing operation includes both video evidence of electronics prohibited by the NCAA to steal signs and a significant paper trail, sources told ESPN. Stalions forwarded the tickets he bought to at least three different people in different areas of the country, sources say, which hints at the breadth of the operation.
The NCAA is expected to receive video evidence this week of illegal technology used in scouting tied to tickets purchased by Stalions, according to sources. An opposing Big Ten school looked up in-stadium surveillance video from a game earlier this year, and sources said the person in the seat of the ticket purchased by Stalions held his smartphone up and appeared to film the home team's sideline the entire game.
Sources confirmed to ESPN that Stalions purchased tickets on both sides of the stadium -- across from each bench -- for Ohio State's game with Penn State on Saturday. Michigan plays both teams in upcoming weeks. According to sources, the tickets purchased by Stalions were not used Saturday. Stalions' name emerged publicly in an ESPN story Friday. He was suspended with pay by Michigan.
Busted! "with pay"???
None of the tickets that the 11 schools told ESPN about involved Michigan as an opponent, per sources. The games involved either one or both of the teams that the Wolverines were playing later that season, according to sources.
Idiot, not even good at disguising his involvement or cheating.
... Michigan is ranked No. 2 in the AP poll, looking for its third consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff. It is the current betting favorite to win the national title.
Move fast, NCAA and Big Ten, kick it out of Playoffs and Bowls
this year.
... The ticket purchases fall into a seat location pattern -- somewhere around the 45-yard line and raised up enough for a clear view of the opposite sideline.
... In the back half of last season, for example, tickets were bought by Stalions on both sidelines for one league game in which Michigan had both opponents remaining on the schedule.
... It's uncertain who was funding the purchases. Stalions makes $55,000 per year, according to the University of Michigan's website. But the operation included thousands of dollars in ticket sales and the cost of travel to the stadiums.
Wolverine boosters, of course.
... Stalions is a former captain in the United States Marine Corps who boasted on LinkedIn of his knack for "identifying and exploiting critical vulnerabilities and centers of gravity in the opponent scouting process."

So much for Marine honor.
... Soon after ESPN identified him as a central part of the probe, he erased multiple social media accounts.

So much for Marine courage and accountability.
Michigan, which was already involved in an NCAA investigation for alleged illegal recruiting during the COVID-19 dead period, has pledged full cooperation with the latest investigation. There's no precedent to indicate what any potential punishment would be for Michigan or coach Jim Harbaugh, as NCAA enforcement has never seen a case of this scope in signal stealing.
The allegations against Michigan could be greater than what got the New England Patriots in trouble during the Spygate scandal that unfolded during the 2007 season. The crux of those allegations revolved around in-game taping of opponents' signals during Patriots games.
The potential of these allegations being added to the NCAA case could increase Harbaugh's exposure to punishment by the NCAA's head coach responsibility rules, which essentially state the head coach is responsible for everything that happens in his program, whether they are aware of it or not.
Harbaugh knew. This happened too often and for too long to be oblivious, and it's what RW xtians do.
Harbaugh said after Michigan's 49-0 win over Michigan State: "There's been stuff. There's been attempts to diminish the team in a lot of ways, starting with the easy schedule. They just play."

:violin: Victim, it's what RW xtians do.
Last week, he denied "illegally stealing signals" in a statement.
"I do not have any knowledge or information regarding the University of Michigan football program illegally stealing signals, nor have I directed any staff member or others to participate in an off-campus scouting assignment," he said on Thursday. "I have no awareness of anyone on our staff having done that or having directed that action....
Liar, it's what RW xtians do. Fire him, ban him from football, now!