Harbaugh issues statement regarding investigation

Doing God's work so we don't have to, thanks!

Buckeyes have been whining and discussing this nonsense for two years now, they have become so entitled that they simply can't cope with not always winning.

Go Blue!

I think that it's awesome that we beat people so badly, and have such an NFL-type staff, and seasoned and smart players, that they actually think we know what they are going to run by stealing signs.

If it's really just coaches complaining that they feel like we knew what they were going to do before they did it, then that is the biggest compliment I can ever remember being accidentally given a program.

The NCAA is unlikely to last long enough to complete its investigation.

But this is, in a way, AWESOME.

The comment I seem to see a lot is something like "how else do you explain Michigan all the sudden getting good in 2021?"  ignoring the fact that a) a lot of teams had inexplicably poor COVID sesaons and b) In his first 5 seasons as coach Harbaugh had three 10 win seasons, went to 2 NY6 Bowls, was a win over OSU away from the CFP 2 times (most likely) and in one of those games he was a correctly spotted ball from winning.  But yeah the program was trash before we brilliantly started having staffers go to opponent's games to steal signs which for some reason made them the best team in college football.

After digging through those dumpsters you deserve both an award and therapy. 

I will say that this explanation for their loses is as believable as the one they had about UM being a bunch of 5th and 6th year seniors the last two seasons despite OSU having more starts by their starters than UM.  

 "They believe the reason we are such a great second half team is because we somehow download and decipher all their signs during halftime" 

...If this is true that's a great fucking idea. Assign one GA to watch the sideline and take notes on every single sign during the game and another one to note what happened on every single play. Have them sit down and check patterns at Halftime. Honestly. Do this. It's great.  

Great recap! Remind me to just look for your posts and avoid those wretched hives of scum and villainy.

UM loses a bowl game to TCU because it’s a bowl game and UM didn’t have ample time to scout TCUs signs.

The only reason Clemson beat OSU in the 2020 CFP semi-final bowl game was because they stole OSUs signs.

Gotta be hard to talk out both sides of your mouth while you’re also breathing through it all the time.

Good. I hope that this fires up the team to pound State and the Cooler Pooper sore losers just to make a point. 

To hell with the NCAA! Bunch of corrupt contemptible hypocrites that have looked the other way countless times after flagrant violations by southern schools. 

so our offenses steals signs? that's hilarious. every D adjusts their set based on the O. give me a break.

To borrow a famous line from the movie; A Few Food Men: You (they) CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

What these Buckeye fans won't come up with.

It will be good bulletin board material inside of Schembechler Hall to really kick some Buckeye ass come Nov 25th at Michigan Stadium.

I kinda wouldn't mind MSU hiring Urban just to see it explode in their faces. 

Urban was scouting for us at these future opponent venues? Who knew. I always thought he was secretly in our corner. He just hides it so well.

Lunacy knows no bounds.  Frankly I'm fine with OSU not realizing the were outplayed, out hustled and out coached the last couple years.  If they want to delude themselves it was or will be about signs and sniffles it is probably better for us.  So, LOL.  Thank you for the summary of the Eleven W soft fairy tales and Go Blue !

 But why is OSU not tough?

Did ND steal their signs too?

Someone I follow on twitter read the bylaws and she stated the violations can only happen during the current season.  

Unfortunately for the fine folks at 11 warriors (s/), they're reasoning is in error. 

Like jumping into the depths of Hell willingly. Good work ol chap.

Number 4 is just silly. I mean Michigan must have stolen the signals otherwise how would they find those well-hidden open areas of the field or linebackers vacating gaps? I mean the two-time Sherrone Moore award-winning OL had nothing to do with shoving the Buckeye defenders. No sireee!

I might add:

I think what they're basically saying is that somebody showed up at these games and took pictures / notes of the giant sign boards they hold up, and/or of the backup quarterback signaling in plays.

This would violate a clause prohibiting in-person scouting efforts, which was put in place not because the possibility of sign-stealing but rather as a cost-saving measure because smaller teams didn't want bigger teams to be able to send out an advance scouting staff when they couldn't afford it.  (If that sounds quaint -- the rule dates to 1994, which may as well be 1894 as far as athletics budgets go).

Harbaugh specifically denied as much.  He did not deny trying to figure out the other teams' signals through legal means -- and if that's what the halftime adjustments are all about, then other teams should have learned to use decoy signs or to switch them after halftime.

No electronic devices, so we’ll have to take turns printing the thread and slipping it under the door at schembechler

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