ESPN finally publishes the story about other schools sharing Michigan's signs
Written by Rittenberg and Tom VH.
They cite sources who told ESPN, lol.
I think this is new. New to me at least.
A Big Ten source said the league has forwarded any information to the NCAA for possible follow-up.
They did reference the AP story at the end.
Last paragraph:
Purdue did not respond to a request for comment, and Rutgers declined to comment. Ohio State did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
No link. You know where to find it if you want to.
November 8th, 2023 at 5:34 AM ^
Wow, both OSU and Rutgers must be phenomenal code breakers if they got all that info in just one football game's worth of legal intel gathering.
November 8th, 2023 at 7:32 AM ^
Rutgers and OSU are known for their recent 2nd half success against Michigan.
Oh wait.
November 8th, 2023 at 6:40 AM ^
I have to believe that this is not the last of these leaks that will be coming out.
If anyone is naive enough to think that Michigan is the only program out there doing this, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
I also wonder how many of these leaks that Michigan is putting out is some concerted effort to get the Big Ten to back off. Depending on what comes out, if its found that other schools are doing the same thing, you're going to have to start punishing all of those schools. Not just Michigan.
And those same schools are the ones who have been shouting from the rooftops about throwing the book at Michigan to protect the integrity of the game.
November 8th, 2023 at 7:57 AM ^
The B1G can
1) try to make a distinction showing how a group of professionals passing along info from their game against an opponent is okay, while the guy sitting in the stands passing along info on the same game is an egregious violation of sportsmanship.
Or
2) get smart and say "we've decided to defer to the NCAA investigation"
They'll probably take option 1.
November 8th, 2023 at 7:36 AM ^
Suspend them all!! /s nobody should be punished for this because everyone does it. Rewrite your rules if this is so big. Really, a bunch of whining coaches who do the same shit are trying to strong arm this new commissioner into making the dumbest decision of his life. My goodness
November 8th, 2023 at 7:38 AM ^
ESPN- We had to get all the facts straight before we published anything.
November 8th, 2023 at 10:06 AM ^
I see what you did there.
November 8th, 2023 at 7:56 AM ^
It took 2 days for espn to publish anything on it. Yet within hours of social media picking up on this Corum LLC with Stalions it’s front page headline news.
November 8th, 2023 at 8:21 AM ^
Uuuhhhh, fuck ESPN.
November 8th, 2023 at 8:41 AM ^
Too little, too late.
They were perfectly happy to create a false narrative, and unjustly take away the best chance we have had for a National Championship in recent history.
Fuck ESPN, I will not click on it.
November 8th, 2023 at 9:20 AM ^
I'd like to hear the explanation from those schools and the B1G as to how conspiring and directly sharing Michigan's signals in an effort to help the next team in line beat them is even remotely within the conference's sportsmanship policy. All I'm hearing is eye-for-an-eye arguments, which is a complete joke.
From the B1G Handbook, Section 10.01 - General Purpose and Scope (Adopted 1974; revised 1991; 1995; 2000; revised 6/2/13 & effective 8/1/13; revised 1/12/22): "The Big Ten Conference expects all contests involving a member institution to be conducted without compromise to any fundamental element of sportsmanship. Such fundamental elements include integrity of the competition, civility toward all, and respect, particularly toward opponents and officials. Accordingly, each member institution, through the actions of the individuals or groups of individuals listed in Agreement 10.1.1 below, has an obligation to behave in a way that does not offend the elements of sportsmanship described above. Actions that are offensive to the integrity of the competition, actions that offend civility, and actions of disrespect are subject to review and are punishable in accordance with the terms of this policy." (emphasis added)
November 8th, 2023 at 9:59 AM ^
Not sure who is more clueless, biased, and incompetent, ESPN or NBC Sports, which spent the pregame show last Saturday vs. Purdue w a reporter who seemed to report Pete Thamel as a gospel truth telling which led to the in house studio hostess saying "Great job reporting .... thank you !"
p.s. Don't care what P. Finebaum thinks about anything, he has been shill for the SEC for too long.
November 8th, 2023 at 10:38 AM ^
I look forward to seeing the vast number of shared spreadsheets that exist across different little cartels that share information about all B1G teams all the time as the basis for what these schools did as being commonplace and not just something they did against Michigan......and for people to attach their names and faces to them, because it is legal and where did it to everyone.
Like, so....there will be one for a group of teams that played Wisconsin last year, right? Let's see it?
I'll wait........
November 8th, 2023 at 10:47 AM ^
At this point you can't convince me that osu along with any other coaches didn't provide any info to TCU. The way that game went and all of this bullshit coming out about Michigan getting their signs taken what else am I supposed to think?
November 8th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
So the Big Ten will forward the information about our opponents cheating to the NCAA, but will potentially take action against Michigan without due process?
Sounds about right.