Feldman's Article: Wake Forest scandal didn’t get same attention from NCAA as Michigan investigation. Why?

Because who the fuck cares about Wake Forest...

Isnt the issue how you obtain the signals? i just feel like im missing something but these other programs did not obtain the signals in the same manner? Asking for some clarification 

I think because we have been a very successful program, that most people across the country do not like Michigan. I remember in '07 I went to the CMU vs KU game and when they announced the AppSt. upset over their PA the fans went crazy and cheered loud for over 10 minutes. Many around me yelled out Michigan sucks, F-Michigan, because I was in my full Michigan gear at that game. At work, I get a lot of flack from co-workers telling me how bad my program is for cheating and how the B1G and NCAA should give Michigan the death penalty. Funny how these non fans get whipped up into a frenzy. I attack back with what happened to Self but they come back and say you are comparing apples to oranges?

NCAA: "Wake Forrest has a football team?"

I saw that show yesterday.  Him, along with ESPN, declare that Michigan/Harbs are cheaters and there should be punishment.

The media doesn't emphasize that Stallions is crazy and did this on his own and that most likely, nobody else knew about it.

It's just MICHIGAN ARE CHEATERS

Why? Ask an OSU fan. It might go something like this: https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-faulknerian-idiot-man-child-1819583366

Buckeyes will tell you that the involvement of an iPhone (or whatever phone the Vast Network tended to use) takes this to "a nother level."

The more you read about this the more absurd it all seems. 

Why?  The NCAA was too busy trying to get Harbaugh to bother with Wake Forest.

Why? Cowherd said if this was Purdue no one would care. Also, they (osu) fear Michigan

Coach TOUGH!! doesn’t want competition in the conference 

Not a lawyer, but you would think Williams and Connelly.has this and will determine its usefulness to this case

I wrote about WakeyLeaks in the B&W Signs diary and three teams admitted to getting info from the WF announcer, using it, and all they got was hit with a $25k fine, and I think that was from the ACC and not the NCAA.  It's sort of insane how little the NCAA did in that case.

because wake forest sucks, obvs.

At this point, the best thing the big10 can do is defer to the ncaa for any rules violations and/or disciplinary actions.  Anything more than that drags the whole conference through the mud.

Why don't these idiots realize this?

While better than nothing, the Feldman article is weak sauce through and through. Worse, at the end, he drops a Clawson quote that reinforces the complete red herring that sign stealing is a problem due to player safety. 

I thought this was going to be about a new scandal we hadn't heard of. Feldman sux.

I would feel bad for Wake Forest, but then I remember they somehow had Kenneth Walker III splitting carries for his two years there.

From this, it is painfully obvious what many Michigan fans and alums have known for years. 

We are the target of hate crimes.  

It's one thing for a buckeye, spartan or nittany lion to say "I hate Michigan".  

It's another to actively plot against Michigan supporters or the team/University itself.  

It's yet even another (player well-being, financial losses, coaching loss/turnover) to have other Big Ten schools (and outside teams/leagues, TCU?) and possibly REFEREES COLLUDE to bring losses or bad outcomes to Michigan. 

Hate crimes need to expand to college athletics -- if a buckeye beats my skull in at the shoe when Michigan wins, isn't that the definition of a HATE crime?   

Also, the media is slandering Michigan and we should sue due to damage to our brand. 

Go Blue. 

Fuck this article. It seems to be equating a guy giving away the team's game plans with Stalion having guys in the stands with their i-phone.  

That is like comparing a grenade launcher to a sling shot.

Fuck off, Feldman.

I didn't know this story....wow.  And THAT is the difference.  Sure, Wake is a small program that sucks most of the time, but I think this goes back to the PR smear campaign.  Whoever started this immediately fired up the media circus and Michigan was already guilty in the eyes of the public and media before the investigation even started.  No one knew about Wake.  It is doubtful enough people would have cared to make it a top headline, but even still - the initial PR in our situation made sure the B10 and NCAA had to do something.  

Sucks for Wake that the NCAA and ACC did nothing for them.  I'm still not proud of what Stallions did or why the hell Michigan hired him in the first place.  That still bugs me a lot.  If Stallions was just some crazy fan firing off emails to Michigan with his signs - this is a different story.  Once we put him on the payroll, we have some culpability.  Dumb.

What happened actually wasn't the NCAA.  Let's remember how all this started.  With the BIG.  The first thing we heard was the BIG told MSU we might have their signals.  Why?  Why did the BIG even tell them?  Most of the actual leaks I've seen have come from the BIG office.  If we're looking at everything surrounding this, the BIG is started this, is driving it, and is amplifying it out of proportion.

  It's possible that, like with past cases of in person scouting, the NCAA would have just ignored it because everyone does it.  The BIG amplified the whole by telling MSU like it was some kind of scandal, and then the media ran with it.  At this point, the BIG is solely responsible for this nonsense, in my mind.

Burn the place down. So riddled with hypocrisy and contradictions--venal motives--it cannot be saved.

Fuck the Athletic.

Why? 

Wake who? That's why.

To me the point is that the ncaa didn’t think it mattered.  If literally getting the game plans from an inside source doesn’t matter how can they say what Connor did matters? 
 

only penalty was Shane for money  

if the NCAA can’t penalize for it then neither can big penalize Jim as an individual and if they try the institution, holy hell. 
 

Hmmm. Well to be fair the B1G was the guys trying dumb stuff. The ncaa took the same tack (let’s deliberate for years and do nothing). The B1Gs approach is even dumber. Jobs are on the line now over this. Just pure idiocy. They have the Dream Team on this now. lol