How does Pettiti get fired?
If the various reported discussions are true, it seems:
This guy is a moron who is in the process of wrecking the Big 10.
He pushes for abandoning due process for one of its members. Despite:
1. A smear campaign and disinformation making facts hard to know without due process.
2. Calls for immediate punishment are coming from opposing coaches who benefit from any harm that comes to Harbaugh.
4. Disparagement of a school that makes large revenue for the Big 10 (and even for dumb-ass mob-rule schools).
5. Proposed punishment is wildly disproportionate to past punishments (i.e., Baylor staffer suspended for half a game for doing it).
How is this guy going to be stopped from burning down the Big 10 and mistreating one of its member schools?
Who can fire this guy? Can we write to them to explain this situation?
November 6th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
Most likely scenario for Pettiti to be fired is Signgate flames out with Harbaugh taking minimal penalties. Then the mob starts looking for scapegoats instead of looking at its own stupidity.
November 6th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
I think Mel Tucker can tell him how to get fired
November 6th, 2023 at 11:03 PM ^
I think Mel has pulled enough fast ones for a lifetime
November 6th, 2023 at 10:06 PM ^
We might be close to finding out.
November 6th, 2023 at 10:09 PM ^
Strange to me in all of this: Petitti was recently in a I Talk To Jim Delany All The Time op/ed.
I doubt he'd be pushing this if Delany were consulting him otherwise. Though speculative for now, for as many "wtf Petitti"s as I have launched to-date, I have an equally dense cache "wtf Delany"s lying in wait.
November 6th, 2023 at 10:15 PM ^
With actual fire emanating from Harbaugh's gaze.
November 6th, 2023 at 11:11 PM ^
The guy isn't getting fired, at least in any time frame that's going to make a difference to Staliongate.
November 7th, 2023 at 12:01 AM ^
He's fucked.
He's going to end up with everybody pissed at him: The mob will be pissed for not nuking Harbaugh. Michigan and a miscellaneous school or two will be pissed for letting the mob push him into a kangaroo court. The NCAA will be pissed for dragging them down this hole while they are trying to fight off paying the players. Fox sports will be pissed for making Michigan even think about leaving the Big Ten. The university presidents will be pissed for making them look like tawdry SEC schools.
Everybody.
He has no defenders left.
His margin of error now is zero. One slipup down the road and he's gone.
November 7th, 2023 at 2:09 AM ^
One way is to sue the Big Ten and its member schools that are participating in this travesty along with ESPN and the NCAA for defamation. I would go for the whole enchilada because of the damage it is doing to our institutional reputation. This is not a suit that should be filed for $millions but $billions. And I would make it as expensive as possible to defend. I would also get the Michigan legislature involved to get the NCAA to back off or have their jurisdictional oversight voided in Michigan as Texas has done.
November 7th, 2023 at 7:13 AM ^
I somehow don't think you can get the Governor on board. Just speculatin'.
November 7th, 2023 at 6:31 AM ^
There is literally zero chance he gets fired for the reasons you thinks The reality is right now the rest of the league is pissed. Not acting when almost the entire rest of the league is demanding action is what would get him fired. Either way I think we have resolution to this in the next 24-48 hours.
Also any thought about Michigan leaving the Big Ten is delusional.
November 7th, 2023 at 7:04 AM ^
Show cause for league destruction and attending lawsuits bringing shame on the sport. Colluding with apparently all other Bigten teams to promote unfair advantage usurping the "spirit" of the rules.
This is kind of fun, suddenly.
November 7th, 2023 at 7:28 AM ^
He’s not going anywhere unless Michigan walks away from the conference. The people who have the ability to hire and fire a guy like this only care about money and TV revenue, so if Michigan walks or seriously threatens to walk, Pettiti would be the one to blame for that and I bet then that he’s out of a job.
Otherwise, he’s not going anywhere.
November 7th, 2023 at 5:04 PM ^
Michigan can’t walk. They are tied up for years. The GOR isn’t going anywhere. No other conference would take them while the GOR was tied up and the money they would leave on the table means they aren’t going independent.