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This is the first mention I’ve heard of coaches. What coaches and where and what is implied about them?

Duke, UNC, & VaTech are all legit schools too. 

I’m in NC. Very likely once a year Michigan comes for a road game. A win for me!!!

Maybe it'd entice Maryland to come back where they belong, too.

If so, we might also be able to get Penn State and Maryland to "come home" to their own region.

To be fair, over the past 3-4 years, the media keeps pushing narratives and lies without fact checking just hoping for them to be true, and gain legs after the fact. This doesn't surprise me.

Those aren't reporters. They are biased partisan whores who will spew whatever talking points their main sources tell them. Reporters care about the truth and would at least include all sides of a story. 

Narratives in which a cartoon idea of good and bad can be pumped without threatening the underlying structure--or interests--are always seized on avidly by the mainstream press. If this were about right and wrong, addressing the crazy inequality or duplicity in college sports. . . well, you quickly see what a joke that even is. We're a conference that just invited USC to join them.

How are more people not raising eyebrows that the Big Ten is specifically going after Harbaugh when this - by all appearances and information available - should be something that the general program is responsible for accepting?  He was not involved nor was aware of what the kid was doing on the side (as we know to date).

I think many of them don't really care about sign stealing, but it is fodder that benefits them by getting them notoriety, eyeballs, clicks, etc... 

Without getting too political, it reminds me of what Trump is going through. Piling on is stylish and makes for good press. 

This would be a dead story if Michigan wasn't in position to get into the playoff and possibly when the national championship. Living in Florida I can tell you this is all they care about. If Michigan is out that's 1 more spot available.

As for the B1G's approach it would be baffling if it weren't for the fact that OSU's 3 coaches, coaches from teams we still play along with MSU banging the table for Harbaugh's head. 

The SEC would never under any circumstance do this to Georgia or Alabama. Matter of fact Greg Sankey gave a wicked smile when confronted with the B1Gs position toward Michigan as he knows it's only going to fuel his conference. 

We are on the verge of an undefeated team entering in a three-week span of massive conference games that are going to draw immense national attention, and that team possibly being the conference's best hope to win a national title for the conference for the first time in almost a decade, and the conference, without an investigation, is going to say "NAH!  F*** all that.  Die, conference member!"???

Petitti may really want this one back--or his job--sooner rather than later.

I see this more as a bunch of Big Ten football coaches and ADs capitalizing on this. As Brian noted in his most recent Signgate The Seventh column, most of these programs have no excuse for how moribund their football programs are so this is an opportunity to shift the spotlight and blame from themselves. Put mob pressure on a new inexperienced Big Ten commissioner to punish Michigan in conference calls and through leaks to the press.

I saw a quote recently from Matt Rhule trying to explain away Nebraska's 5-4 start to the season to two bad video reviews and "one game where the opponent scouted us." He just lost to a terrible MSU football team and is squandering a chance to win the Big Ten West in a season where both Iowa and Wisconsin are playing with backup QBs.

The nonstop garbage they scroll across the bottom make ESPN unwatchable. Like I care what tennis match is on ESPN 3 at 4pm yet they will remind you 100 time an hour until 4pm arrives...then you'll get updated scores on said tennis match over & over.

It's truly unwatchable garbage.

Jim mentioned sharing money with the players, the conference doesn't like people coming after their money which is why they want him out.