OSU will never escape our vast network of spies
I'm not up on military planes, so I never would have caught this without someone pointing it out. Apparently the plane that did the flyover on Saturday is a Navy spy plane. No Stalions? Then the US Navy will take care of recording Ohio State's signs for us.
November 27th, 2023 at 6:39 PM ^
I touched base with a few of my old Navy colleagues. Apparently there was some sort of radar absorbing technology employed by the OSU sideline that prevented meaningful information. They described it as a sort of "softness"...
November 27th, 2023 at 6:43 PM ^
My nephew is an IS1 in the Navy. He told me we couldn’t steal their signs because Day scribbled them in crayon on construction paper
November 27th, 2023 at 6:40 PM ^
If that’s true, and UM used a Navy spy plane flyover to offset the loss of our Marine sign stealer, it may be the most expensive and amazing troll job in history!!!
November 27th, 2023 at 6:41 PM ^
Perf.
November 27th, 2023 at 6:41 PM ^
This is perfect! The Michigan difference, taking to an epic level!
Go Blue!
November 27th, 2023 at 6:42 PM ^
Quite a coincidence, or a major troll job.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:08 PM ^
I read somewhere they arrange for this at the start of the season. Sounds like it's a coincidence.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:49 PM ^
Yep, just a coincidence
November 27th, 2023 at 7:53 PM ^
Gal Godot gets an immediate plus 1
November 27th, 2023 at 7:53 PM ^
Gal Godot gets an immediate plus 1
November 27th, 2023 at 9:15 PM ^
You can say that again.
November 27th, 2023 at 6:43 PM ^
Funny, I was working in downtown Ann Arbor a couple of weeks ago and that plane kept circling, really low. I was a little freaked out by it tbh.
It all made sense when I saw the flyover.
Unless...
November 27th, 2023 at 7:09 PM ^
Were you trying to cook a big Italian meal, get rid of some handguns and get a shipment of cocaine off to Pittsburgh?
November 27th, 2023 at 7:19 PM ^
Make sure you keep stirring the sauce. You don't want it to stick.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:50 PM ^
Maybe his recipe is a trade secret
November 27th, 2023 at 9:57 PM ^
Not going back for the hat
November 28th, 2023 at 1:31 AM ^
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
November 27th, 2023 at 6:45 PM ^
In all seriousness, I think OSU wants Michigan to spy on them so they have some cheap excuse to fall back on.
If Saturday was great for only one thing, it’s that they must make up another lame reason why they can’t beat UM. If they should get left out of the CFP (and they should), I think their off season is going to show some cracks in their unity as a team. I mean, how much soul-searching can a program do over what will be 4 years since their last meaningful regular season win?
November 27th, 2023 at 9:27 PM ^
The fact that we didn’t play in 2020 makes what has happened the last 3 years even better. What a great decision to not play them that year.
November 27th, 2023 at 9:36 PM ^
I don't think there was much of a "decision" there.
November 27th, 2023 at 6:54 PM ^
You talk too much.
November 27th, 2023 at 9:00 PM ^
Loose lips sink Buckeye (champion)ships
November 27th, 2023 at 6:56 PM ^
There's still quite a bit of red in the stadium, I'm glad they all drove up to witness Day lose to a substitute teacher
November 27th, 2023 at 8:19 PM ^
I can tell you that there was no where near as much red in that stadium as there has been in the past. They filled their allotment in the southwest corner and upper rows of the south endzone. Their band took up pretty much all of their space in section 9-10. Outside of that there were a few small groups here and there. The tailgate used to feel like it was overrun with Buckeyes, at least where I was at I only saw one group of Buckeyes.
November 27th, 2023 at 6:57 PM ^
To be honest I was a little disappointed when I saw the fly over, just one plane, but now it all makes sense.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:07 PM ^
Didja think there might have been other planes but with their super-secret invisibility cloaking turned on?
November 27th, 2023 at 7:26 PM ^
You didn’t see the two Stealth fighters on either side?
November 28th, 2023 at 3:04 AM ^
All the best people know you can't see a stealth fighter.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:05 PM ^
Stallions was obviously flying that mofo.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:08 PM ^
Perhaps the P-8 was used to drop and test some sort of top secret invisible sonobuoys, which found their way to the OSU sideline, listened in, and relayed their plays to the Vast Network command center.
Also, aviation fun fact, the P-8 is a militarized version of the Boeing 737-800, which does lend itself to a (relatively) tame flyover.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:18 PM ^
Not really a "spy plane". Primary role of the P-8 is anti-submarine warfare. They can also do maritime surveillance and some intel work.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:52 PM ^
Not to mention football sign interception
November 27th, 2023 at 8:07 PM ^
Shhh don't let them know the plane can intercept comms! Oh wait... damn it.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:18 PM ^
I thought this was common knowledge or I would have posted it so that we could enjoy it before the game. My apologies.
November 27th, 2023 at 7:40 PM ^
That's a P-8 Poseidon. It replaced the P-3 Orion. I helped work on it when I was at Boeing. Based on a 737-800. Really cool plane. Not really a spy plane though.
November 27th, 2023 at 9:24 PM ^
Would have been great to get one of the remaining U-2s to fly over
November 27th, 2023 at 7:50 PM ^
Hey, I'm in that picture!
November 27th, 2023 at 7:57 PM ^
Make all the jokes you want, but this is what at least one syphilitic buckeye fan believes:
I didn’t sleep the night before the game or the night after. Nervous excitement and then sheer horror and disbelief. I hate that about this game, and it was only made worse by childish and completely inappropriate comments by Roman Wilson—who didn’t catch the TD—and others. This game has now turned into something completely different. In other losses, I could/would shrug it off because we had such dominance overall. The cooper days of my youth were gone. But now they’re most definitely back. There is no explanation for three losses in a row. Not recruiting. Not coaching. Not a series of bad calls like 2019 Clemson. Literally all that is left to explain what we keep seeing is cheating. Many on these boards and in the sports world have dismissed this as “whining” now, but nothing else makes sense. I maintain that there is nothing special about this TCUN team, and that they were very beatable. We had a mostly pedestrian game and we still had the ball last with a great chance of winning till we didn’t. Though we made mistakes, we answered in kind all afternoon and the game was never out of reach. Unlike the last two. It’s impossible not to attribute the last two to cheating. Impossible. And this year, I still maintain that the cheating was the difference yet again. Yes, we likely changed up our signs (though I still don’t understand why we didn’t huddle with a wristband), but I believe we have the tip of the iceberg and sign stealing is but one of the ways TCUN cheats. I believe they bug locker rooms. I believe they hack computer systems. I believe they bribe referees, officials, perhaps even some of our own players, coaches, and personnel for intel. Once you understand how criminal organizations work, you understand that they are capable of doing anything. Much of my professional career has been spent chasing down “bad guys” who use illicit means to gain advantage. Once they go down that path nothing is off the table. Hell, throw in good old fashioned blackmail and extortion to the mix. “Hey, that girl (or boy) you banged at that party was underage. Better give us the signs or gameplan or we’re going to the police.” Hard to believe, but these are desperate people fighting for their jobs and their program. They have demonstrated they are willing to do anything so we must conclude that means anything. Men without honor are the worst kinds of scum, and what’s worse than scum are Michigan Men. OSU needs to hire their own investigators and vet every single person in their organization. Bank records, emails, texts, digital currencies, families. Everything. Everyone. Have a counter espionage team sweep the entire WHAC and the opposition locker rooms before games. Get totally paranoid about this. Don’t trust anyone. Until TCUN is posting top five recruiting classes and has a coach with an actual history of winning, I will never believe TCUN is doing this legitimately. Harbaugh knew everything and probably did the same shit at Stanford and SF.
November 27th, 2023 at 8:05 PM ^
Get a job and a grip on life dude
November 27th, 2023 at 11:34 PM ^
And get some fucking paragraphs.
November 27th, 2023 at 8:07 PM ^
Get totally paranoid about this.
It sounds like he's already there.
November 27th, 2023 at 8:11 PM ^
Finally a reasonable tOSU fan.
November 27th, 2023 at 8:45 PM ^
Someone get that boy some help. Paranoid delusions are no way to go through life.
November 27th, 2023 at 9:17 PM ^
I would say quit drinking and go to bed, but then we’d miss out on the next pearl of wisdom from this genius.
November 27th, 2023 at 9:21 PM ^
It's not this complicated. The real story is that Ryan Day is actually a Michigan double agent. He was flipped four years ago, and is now working for us. (Shhhhh...sources and methods, you know)
November 27th, 2023 at 9:52 PM ^
Is he talking about the impending OSU approach to the Game?
November 28th, 2023 at 2:30 AM ^
where is that from?
November 28th, 2023 at 8:18 AM ^
Judging by this guy, I'd say it's from the most diseased corner of the buckeye hive mind, but that's just a guess.
November 28th, 2023 at 9:08 AM ^
This person needs serious help, and unfortunately he is far from the only Buckeye fan that believes this.
November 27th, 2023 at 8:09 PM ^
It’s a maritime patrol aircraft (subhunter mostly) not a spy plane. Still pretty cool.