Connor Stalions gives Dave Pornoy note about Ryan Day being suspended
Whatever you feel about Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports, this is pretty hilarious. Connor Stalions walks up and gives Dave Portnoy a note on his pregame show saying that Ryan Day will be suspended for longer than Jim Harbaugh was.
Can confirm it’s him https://t.co/KTIyhXKWGo
— Josh Henschke (@JoshHenschke) November 28, 2023
November 28th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
Zing!
November 28th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
Conner........
November 28th, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^
Did that failed vacuum scammer explain why Day will be suspended?
November 28th, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^
Please make it stop…
November 28th, 2023 at 12:58 PM ^
I saw this video on Saturday and didn't really think twice about it. Thought it was just some guy hired to impersonate him and be a joke. I had no clue it was actually him
November 28th, 2023 at 12:58 PM ^
Nobody gives a fuck about The Ohio cheating. Everyone knows they've been doing it for their entire existence.
This whole thing is about Pure Michigan. Who may or may not have bent some vague rule that wasn't a rule then was a rule then was maybe not gonna be a rule anymore.
November 28th, 2023 at 12:59 PM ^
Honestly whatever you think of this video and whether or not its funny, or good schadenfreude, I really wish Connor Stallions would just:
1) Get a new hobby
2) Seek some personal therapy, if he hasn't already
3) Take a break from Michigan football for a very extended period of time. Its clear he had a very unhealthy obsession with it, and while I'm sure he had the best of intentions, his decisions put this program in an extremely unenviable position and made them public enemy #1 for well over a month. That is what they will continue to be in many circles for a long time, and certainly for as long as Harbaugh is here.
He made some really dumb choices that severely damaged, if not almost outright ruined the reputations and legacies of A LOT of people.
Its a free country, he can do what he wants, but anything he does in this vein is more bad press for a program that truly doesn't need it. And if I can be blunt, a program that really doesn't need him anymore, or want him associated with them in any capacity. He's done a lot of irreparable damage.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:18 PM ^
We post on a Michigan football message board under fake or incomplete names. How are we not in the unhealthy obsession category as well? My heart was blasting through my chest the entire week leading up to The Game, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm arguing no one on here has grounds to get on anyone for being obsessed about Michigan football
November 28th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
Seriously. I wore a damn trench in my living room floor pacing during the Game a few days ago.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:40 PM ^
Im 50 and although in great shape, i ordered a defibulator off amazon. Luckily it wasn't needed, and after reading about the exploding shoe im gonna send it back.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:05 PM ^
Amateur, I'm 51 and have had one implanted in my chest for 5 years!
November 28th, 2023 at 1:55 PM ^
I mean ultimately, we are not professionals, and this is not our livelihood. We are purely fans. If anything we are to learn from the Stalions affair, it’s that sometimes fans should just be fans.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:52 PM ^
10000% agree. Normal people can hate on Stallions for his unhealthy obsession. Mgoblog posters tend to relate to that obsession a bit more.
November 28th, 2023 at 7:35 PM ^
Does anything we do have an actual impact on the program? Do we WORK for the program? Are we official ambassadors and representatives of Michigan football who are paid by the university and are expected to represent it as such?
No. We’re not.
So yeah, there is a difference between Connor Stallions and the rest of us. He worked for Michigan football so he had responsibilities to it that we do not. And he took a shit all over those responsibilities.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:00 PM ^
I know Dave is all about the likes and shares, but come on man.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:00 PM ^
Stalions was brought on as a joke. I thought it was funny for a single laugh. They could have been a lot more creative though.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:27 PM ^
^^ is unfamiliar with the whole barstool...thing. ^^
November 28th, 2023 at 1:01 PM ^
Connor Stalions is a legend
November 28th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
Do some people really have this perspective? He nearly cratered (and possibly still has) our entire football program to self-promote. How and why is he possibly a legend?
November 28th, 2023 at 1:16 PM ^
Yeeeeeeah no.
He's a moronic buffoon with an extremely unhealthy obsession, who either knowingly broke rules or was too stupid to sit down one day and look up the rules to see if what he was planning to do was against the rules. And even when he chose to break the rules, he was awful at covering his tracks.
He nearly cratered this program, and all for something Michigan never even had to do to be successful anyway. What we still don't know is whether or not his decisions will directly lead to Harbaugh having to walk out the door.
I'd be okay with him never having any kind of association with Michigan football, directly or otherwise, ever again. He's lost that privilege. To me, he is persona non grata.
Get a new hobby, get some therapy, and do something new with your life.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:54 PM ^
The legends are the nameless staffers of the football program who work tirelessly week in and week out to help Michigan win and do so completely within the rules so that nothing they do could ever be used by Michigan’s enemies to torpedo the program.
I have absolutely no interest in praising a guy who gave our enemies the ammunition needed for them to try to destroy the best run the football program has had in decades. I especially have no interest in doing so as a result of him trying to extend his 15 minutes at the expense of what he claims to love so much.
November 28th, 2023 at 3:01 PM ^
Out of curiosity, what if M's best dream comes true, and the NCAA says the only rule broken was when CS was on the CMU sideline? Will you still say he gave our enemies ammunition to destroy the program?
(i'm not suggesting any likelihood of this happening, just asking how your thinking might change, if at all, if that were to be the case, as many around here think it could be)
November 29th, 2023 at 4:36 AM ^
I mean, even if everything that happens moving forward is best case scenario for Michigan, it still doesn't change the fact that his actions gave Michigan's enemies the excuse they were looking for to try to destroy the program. Fortunately their attempts so far have failed, but it should have never happened in the first place. For minimal gain, CS made Michigan super vulnerable. He shouldn't be praised for that.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:05 PM ^
It shocks me how differently people think.
I couldn't disagree more.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:54 PM ^
Remarkably, Connor Stallions didn't make the legend cut when Harbaugh was throwing out Michigan Legends in his presser earlier. Those were reserved for the likes of actual legends like Coach Moore and Blake Corum.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:02 PM ^
I'm into it
November 28th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
Who's Connor Stalions?
November 28th, 2023 at 2:55 PM ^
some GA at CMU I think.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:05 PM ^
I liked how the MMB trolled the B1G. This? Not so much.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:07 PM ^
It’s a funny troll move by him and Portnoy, would expect nothing else.
But if Stalions is the reason Harbaugh leaves, fuck him and ban him from campus. Regardless how the the investigation started it’s his dumbass that did all this and is the reason for whatever punishment Harbaugh receives.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^
People need to realize that CS isn't the reason for any of this. Every football program has a dozen guys doing borderline stuff that could run afoul of some strained reading of some obscure and poorly-written B1G or NCAA bylaw. THIS instance became a story because it was created to become a story and achieve an end goal. If you get duped by the narrative woven by our enemies, that's just poor judgement on your part.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:06 PM ^
So you think Harbaugh is lying then?
November 28th, 2023 at 2:40 PM ^
I think most of the big title coaches are isolated from the specifics in any real way. But if you read any article from prior to this fiasco, it is very clear that sign guys who trade scouting info with other sign guys is a thing. It's very clear that there is a funky black market of additional film floating around that some guys have more access to than others based on connections. Sharing signs with opponents that your team just played with teams who will play them is very much against the rules in exactly the same way that CS is purported to have broken the rules. Coaches doing this is even more against this rule (as long as what CS did was actually against the rule). Bottom line is that if you think that in a sport where massive bags of cash get left with local church leaders to secure 5 star high school kids that every team worth its salt isn't begging, borrowing, and stealing to at least surreptitiously scout other teams (look at the stories about filming opposing practices last summer alone), you are a dupe and you were the target for this type of story. MOST people are like this or will quickly become this if they get to pile on someone they don't really like in doing so. But we absolutely don't need to join in the stupidity when its our team.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
This whole situation is stupid and an obvious witch hunt for Harbaugh.
But if Harbaugh leaves because of this I’m blaming Stalions along with Ryan Day and ESPN.
November 28th, 2023 at 2:41 PM ^
Just know that there are likely 10 other guys in our program about which a similarly stupid scandal could have been whipped up around and fed to an ignorant audience
November 28th, 2023 at 1:09 PM ^
I loved the sign with Urban and the two young women/The Real Cheaters.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:10 PM ^
I would like to believe that someone with the determination of Connor Stalions is now solely focused on bringing OSU down out of revenge and finding out everything he can on his own and making it as public as possible
November 28th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
Gotta focus all his skills on something i guess. Hell, I'm all for it.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:16 PM ^
Can't wait for the idiots to say he's both a mastermind and a moron at the same time
November 28th, 2023 at 1:18 PM ^
It does the program no good for people to associate Portnoy with Michigan. He's not a good person, to put it mildly.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
how so? i barely know who he is, other than his Michigan fandom and association with Barstool
November 28th, 2023 at 2:12 PM ^
I can safely say I have never gone to barstool’s website, ever. However didn’t he have a pretty cool fund for small businesses during the pandemic?
November 28th, 2023 at 2:23 PM ^
Yeah, they raised something like $40 million. I visit once in a while, mostly because they still have chicks in bikinis.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:28 PM ^
Connor Stalions broke the golden rule. He got caught. Can't do that, buddy.
November 28th, 2023 at 3:46 PM ^
Rule 1: CYA
Never do anything you don't want to have to explain to HR. And if you still do it, make damn sure no one can catch you
November 28th, 2023 at 1:51 PM ^
They really should have followed up by showing a video of C.S. in the plane flying over the stadium pulling the banner, with binoculars, peering down at the ohio sidelines.
November 28th, 2023 at 1:54 PM ^
I won’t believe it until I hear it from tonnerscalions and Isaiah hole
November 28th, 2023 at 2:02 PM ^
Well, getting fired is sort of like a forever suspension, so...
November 28th, 2023 at 2:43 PM ^
All the weird things Stalions did (vast network, vacuum cleaner business, AirBnB stuff) doesn't even register in the top 100 of weird things CFB and CBB coaches have done early in their careers. I know everyone thinks he's crazy because this guy got wrapped up in a media drama that involves Michigan, but selling busted vacuums is nothing compared to what some of the crazies in college coaching have done to get by early on. If it comes out that in 1999 Kirby Smart washed windows on a street corner during the summer, and played the kazoo outside an Athens bar at night, just to make enough rent money, is anyone shocked by this?
College coaches are psychos and if Stalions never got caught, and ended up a P5 coach in 15 years, Thamel would have written an article about how he sold vacuums just to get by.
Not saying what he did was right, it's just not as crazy as people think. At least not in the college coaching world.