Any news on when the Shoe Investigation (officially) wraps up
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^
Everyone is suspended forever.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:28 PM ^
Nobody is allowed to play until we beat MSU & OSU.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:28 PM ^
We had to sit out the first quarter of the Northwestern game.
October 2nd, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
It was tough but fair.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
They just have a couple of loose ends to tie up and then they'll be finished.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
They are knot going to release any findings until they do some more sole-searching.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
Those reports are always so confusing, they may as well be speaking in tongues.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:02 PM ^
It seems that the report was laced with fake news
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
Are you guys saying they're trying to sneaker one past us?
October 2nd, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
We're looking at a pair of suspensions. No one is at risk of being kicksed off the team and we will have plenty of time to heel before next season
October 2nd, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
Should be OK if everyone Toes the line.
October 2nd, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
Haha, shoes.
October 2nd, 2018 at 7:54 PM ^
Can I still shoe-horn in one more comment before someone flip-flops?
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
So here's a question. You can't pay players or recruits, or give them benefits. But after they expend all their eligibility all bets are off. So what if some rich booster wanted to start paying for former player's shoes at a million bucks a pop? He's not making an explicit promises to current players or recruits, he just keeps buying shoes. Everybody sees it, recruits know if you come to Michigan, four years later somebody is apparently going to give you a million dollars for your shoes, but there's nothing official in writing. Would that violate any rules?
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, "Hey, kid. We got the biggest alumni pool in the world. Someday, you know, one of those rich alumni might hire you because you got a great education and, you know, could provide a return on investment, if you know what I mean."
Clearly, our recruitment strategy of promoting UM for its good education and alumni base is a violation of improper benefit rules.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
I don't think it would violate any current rules, but the first time Stephen Ross does that shit, the NCAA will find a way to prevent it.
There is nothing the NCAA loves more than making sure the players benefit as little as possible from making them shit tons of money.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
How about a webpage with simple writing and lots of graphics, on where NCAA's annual revenue goes?
And you're right about one thing. The first time anybody tries to do this in any sort of concerted way, I agree that the NCAA would do something about it. And they would develop a rule or a new bylaw addition. And they would do the best that they could, to write a carefully-crafted rule with the help of their lawyers. And then, there would be a player who just graduated and whose mom was dying of cancer and the player sold some stuff to Stephen Ross, to pay for a bone marrow transplant and the whole world would wonder why the NCAA was so flamingly stupid as to ever enact such a rule. And the answer would be, "We have to write some odd rules, because some people will do such odd and extreme things to gain a competitive advantage..." Which is almost always the root cause analysis explanation when it comes to sportsfan criticisms of the NCAA bylaws.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
Two years probation and loss of scholarships. Post season ban this year.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:36 PM ^
That's harsh. I just thought that we'd have to play Rutgers in our bare feet.
October 2nd, 2018 at 4:18 PM ^
I like the idea of barefoot football. I bet we would see a lot less ACL tears.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
At least they went easy on us this time. And everyone says the NCAA is unfair. In this case, the punishment and the crime are a perfect fit.
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:48 PM ^
I kinda thought the whole thing was wrapped up pretty fast to the point where compliance didn't even have to come out and say anything? Harbaugh I think addressed this in an interview
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:59 PM ^
It's a wrap. Everything was accounted for that needed to be.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:06 PM ^
If the Miles Bridges investigation took 2 hours, what makes you think this one would take more than 30 minutes?
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:49 PM ^
Bridges didn't play for Michigan.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
Because at Michigan, extra stretching is a Hell-worthy sin.
While other schools' enablement of child rape, serial sexual assault, serial sexual assault, serial sexual assault, spousal abuse, academic fraud, academic fraud, criminal negligence, sexual assault, and littering...are all just annoyances and distractions to the real problem, which is Michigan's extra stretching.
The rules are different for Michigan, as aptly demonstrated by the "holding calls" chart from earlier today.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
Anyone care to fill an ignorant MGoUser in on this? What shoe violation? I must have missed something.
October 2nd, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^
Shoes were sold but it was by a player without remaining eligibility so all is good. Because we are Michigan and get the book thrown at us for stretching while other programs run rampant with abuse scandals, we had to get all the equipment together and prove it wasn't current players selling shoes in what undoubtedly would be a program-rocking scandal in this conference.
October 2nd, 2018 at 4:48 PM ^
Is Denard tied up in this thing?
October 2nd, 2018 at 9:40 PM ^
The bomb sniffing dogs were ridiculous at the shoe and ohio was never reprimanded.