The Athletic- NCAA only got this last Tuesday

It’s times like this that we need to rally around the dicks and assholes speech from Team America: World Police.

Ok, there are multiple threads going on here:

1. How was there access to Michigan computers?  Even if this stemmed from Weiss, a company isn't at liberty to share any information.

2. As Klatt mentioned, who knew what and enabled it?

3. Why is this so coordinated.  It feels like a bombshell is going off every day.

4. Where do we go from here?  Is signal stealing more serious than NIL and coaches messing with the transfer portal?

If the NCAA is going to act all high and mighty, then let's shine a light on everything.

Cryan better lawyer up and scrub his computers. What's the penalty for accessory to computer hacking? Did he pay for this from his own money or is this clear evidence of a lack of institutional control? I wonder who might be motivated now to explore these burning questions so we can make sure all parties are treated equally.

No matter where this ends up, I want to drop 50 on OSU this year.

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It's a PR full frontal assault at this point.  

If a firm illegally accessed computers and then provided someone with evidence that they did it, it would be ridiculously dumb.  I don't buy it.

So, logic suggests that they DIDN'T illegally access it.  That would mean someone with authorized access gave them access to the drives contents.  I think the suggestions that Michigan was hacked are unlikely.

Jesus, this was basically a drive-by shooting of our program.  I hope and believe our team is mentally resilient enough to take this wound and channel their anger over it into a series of colossal ass whoppings culminating in the ass whooping to end all ass whoopings on November 25.

No one else besides stallions has been suspended or let go, until then I'm not concerned.  Until other names start coming out, this is a narrative spin.

Ryan Day -> Law Firm -> NCAA / Stapleton -> Big Ten -> Thamel

I got no idea what's supposed to be going on. Either there's some NCAA clowns show that, by the time it's done, the NCAA won't exist or, on the other hand, this is some FBI level cybercrimes investigation which, by the time it's done, I'll be dead, and Jim will have three national titles. And there won't be any asterisks next to them.

If some rival school did hire this firm, that might disrupt whatever tacit understanding there was among college football programs that teams scout each other. That kind of move really turns things up a notch, if programs know that at any time, they're fair game for an opponent to turn loose PIs and attorneys on them, looking for whatever dirt they can find. That kind of thing can really spiral out of control.

There was a post on Reddit, not that I could give two shits about them. It said that Ryan Day had hired a firm to investigate us. All I can say is if we’re innocent than nothing to worry about. Teams turn each other in all the time. Unfortunately this is snowballing at a massive rate. 

What will be the narrative when UM wins @PSU by 24 and trucks OSU by 38?

Michigan needs to hire Magnum P.I. to get to the bottom of this 

If you believe all of this stuff then I've got some beach front property on the moon for sale.

The WaPo article states that the firm's investigation involved interviews, documents, videos, and multiple computer drives. I can't imagine any way an outside firm could access those drives and get cooperation in interviews during the busy football season. So I'm really thinking somebody at U of M hired this outside firm, and authorized access to those drives and also required compliance with the investigators. Why? Maybe to dig up dirt on Harbaugh before the contract extension. And maybe whoever hired that firm had a good idea about the in game scouting and sign stealing.