Pete Thamel: No indication of timetable on B1G’s decision
November 9th, 2023 at 10:13 AM ^
Update: I have no update.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:26 AM ^
Has he denied having the collusion story a week before it was reported elsewhere yet?
November 9th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
I'll have an update to my update in the next 24-48 hrs, in the meantime I'll be combing the hair on my cabbage patch dolls
-Pete Thamel
November 9th, 2023 at 8:49 PM ^
Pete Thamel is a for real cunt of a human being
November 9th, 2023 at 10:40 AM ^
It makes sense if Pettiti waits until even after the season. The buzz will calm down and he can quietly give a fine or a 1 game suspension to Harbaugh in a game we will win anyways at the beginning of next year. Pettiti Will then not sabotage a BIG team going for a title. Makes sense to me, but seems like Pettiti is not a thinker.
November 9th, 2023 at 11:25 AM ^
No clicks for Thamel!
November 9th, 2023 at 11:51 AM ^
What happened to him saying the Big Ten would act in 48-72 hours ... when he was dressed up like B-Rabbit on McAfee's show?
November 9th, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
Nah he's Clarence. And Clarence parents had a real good marriage.
November 9th, 2023 at 11:52 AM ^
Actually, the update is that even Thamel is backpedaling. Now it's "alleged" illegal signal stealing. This subtle language change is a bad journalist realizing if he's not more careful about what he writes he could find himself on the working end of Michigan's legal howitzer.
Watch the cockroaches scatter as the truth comes to light.
This is a "cackle with glee if" harbinger if I've ever seen one.
November 9th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Exactly this. IANAL, but it seems there might be grounds for defamation (or deformation as a previous poster inadvertently coined).
November 9th, 2023 at 12:33 PM ^
Committing deformation on a matter of unverified voracity is one way to be sent to Bolivia.
November 9th, 2023 at 12:41 PM ^
IANAL
You what...?
Signed,
12-year-old me
November 9th, 2023 at 10:14 AM ^
Please stop posting his crap. Clicks are his bread. Starve him out.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:15 AM ^
Seriously. Of all the people involved in this "story", why give him oxygen?
November 9th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^
Serious question, do we start calling him "Paul Thamel"? I can't keep these ESPN assholes and their appropriate Petes and Pauls straight
November 9th, 2023 at 10:37 AM ^
I'd rather we just don't mention him at all anymore.
He's not an honest broker. Deliberately ignored a source that contradicted the "story" he was telling, so that he could form a narrative of his choosing. I was flipping channels late last night, happened to catch him on ESPN (which I never watch, just clicked through) and he's still trying his best to frame it as Michigan is in the wrong, but what OSU/Rutgers/Purdue did was perfectly "normal" and within the rules.
Fuck him.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:43 AM ^
Let’s just refer to him as “Thamel Toe”
November 9th, 2023 at 10:57 AM ^
Already started; paul it is
November 9th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^
I like Rag Mag Pete, personally. Little Peter also works.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:18 AM ^
I thought it was noteworthy. I apologize in advance for anyone I might have offended. I’ve been hitting refresh every 2 minutes thinking the decision would come today.I hadn’t considered the possibility that the B1G would just sit on it.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:23 AM ^
Maybe just paraphrase and don’t embed his stuff.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^
If I had just done that, then I would have gotten hammered for not posting a link.
I get it, right now is a very ouchy time on this here board. I’ve got thick skin, I can handle the negs and disparaging comments.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:34 AM ^
Touchy time
November 9th, 2023 at 10:39 AM ^
You, sir, are an absolute gugelhupf.
November 9th, 2023 at 11:25 AM ^
Maybe just post a screenshot of it
November 9th, 2023 at 10:44 AM ^
If it's embedded then MGoUsers don't have to click on it/give him clicks/views.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:26 AM ^
It contains no information. Thamel has no sources beyond OSU staff and boosters, so he won't be the one to provide an update regardless.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:35 AM ^
I wouldn’t take offense to it. Although I agree that not sharing Thamel’s more source-y, drip-bomb material is for the best, this is more general update related and seems to lack his usual snark.
At this point, it wouldn’t shock me to see this thing die out as I think the original argument for infractions has changed so much over the past three weeks, they don’t even know what they’re bitching about anymore.
This is maybe the dumbest, most annoying set of circumstances to take over MGoBlog in years…
November 9th, 2023 at 10:43 AM ^
Why share anything of his? Has he been straight or right on anything?
November 9th, 2023 at 11:29 AM ^
Not annoying to me. I’m enjoying the theater of the absurd.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
I get the noteworthy aspect, and I'm here reading it. For objectively obnoxious characters like this, though, you might opt for a screen grab and not a clickable widget going forward.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:28 AM ^
I think we're at the point where the blog needs to ban any and all Thamel posts, and relegate him to the heap of other hack, media trolls whose "content" isn't even worthy of flushing down the toilet.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:43 AM ^
But I enjoy that all of his posts right now are getting heavily ratioed.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:46 AM ^
Honestly as much as the guy is a hack, I'd rather see the update. Now I know I can stop refreshing all morning expecting to see a suspension announced
November 9th, 2023 at 10:48 AM ^
Also he's on ESPN, unfortunately every Michigan fan could stop clicking and it would not starve him out. We're a big fan base but we're a very small minority of all sports fans
November 9th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
Posting an image of his tweet is the best way to screw him. We all get to read what this moron has to say without clicking on anything that he gets “credit” for.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:14 AM ^
He knew so much just a few days ago, what happened?
November 9th, 2023 at 10:15 AM ^
Fuck this guy, why are we posting anything he puts out there outside of an apology for being an ass hat?
November 9th, 2023 at 11:58 AM ^
Nope, him tweeting and backtracking is quite enjoyable and amusing
November 9th, 2023 at 3:05 PM ^
It is informative to know if he is running away from his strident death-to-Michigan stand.
He is useless as a "journalist", but he is useful as a barometer on the media narrative.
When even he starts backtracking - even in his slimy sneaky cover-his-ass way - you know the counteroffensive is winning.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:15 AM ^
Stalling. “Shit. Show do I not look like an idiot now when I back down?” He’s the one who said “biggest cheating scandal ever” so how does he save face?
November 9th, 2023 at 10:15 AM ^
This is ridiculous. Top 10 road matchup and Michigan might not know until game time whom their coach is? Because a bunch of mediocre coaches whined because they're mediocre?
Total joke conference
November 9th, 2023 at 10:20 AM ^
I would be very surprised if Petite did anything right now. If he was smart he would defer to the NCAA. But he should communicate that to Michigan.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^
I think it's pretty much been established that "if he was smart" doesn't apply to him. This whole preposterous shit show with the Big Ten should never have reached this point.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:32 AM ^
I see what you did there. Nice to be thinking alike.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
If they do suspend on Friday, Michigan should absolutely leave this conference. They should not announce that they are leaving until the year they do. Leave the b1g scrambling
November 9th, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
We should not leave the conference no matter what. People are not thinking this through. The whole fun of the sport would be so greatly diminished if we didn't play any of the teams we've been playing forever and had to travel to the south for away games. We'd be punishing ourselves. We'll get passed this, with a legal fight if we need to, but we can't just give up on the big ten because of one round of idiocy
November 9th, 2023 at 11:03 AM ^
I was in the "fuck the B1G, we're out" camp for about half a day, until I thought about it and came to the conclusion that you present here: The B1G is much more than one moronic, soon-to-be-replaced commissioner and a bunch of sore loser coaches, most of whom will also be gone in a few years.
Michigan does not have to be supportive of the current B1G regime, and can in fact work behind the scenes to disrupt and discredit (within the rules) the current conferences hostiles (including the commissioner), but leaving would be cutting off our nose to spite our face.
November 9th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
It isn't happening before the game.
I think the process is a little bit different than most people think right now. Lawyers are talking to lawyers. Michigan and the BIG have themselves in a bit of a doozy right not and they both are looking for a way out without roof falling on their head.
I anticipate the following:
1. Harbaugh suspended for two games, announced Monday morning, after a kind of mundane victory over Penn State.
2. Michigan files for an injunction, the BIG doesn't argue that hard against it, and it is granted.
3. Michigan and the BIG, with input from the NCAA, discuss some kind of compromised resolution.
4. While those discussions are taking place, the NCAA fast tracks radio helmet communications.
5. Ultimately, the BIG investigation is rolled into the NCAA investigation, that is rolled into the existing burger-gate investigation.
6. The BIG shortens the suspension to one game, for Harbaugh, to be served next year, and eventually Michigan gets a fine, probation, and some for of marginally consequential scholarship reductions. Michigan dismisses their lawsuit.
7. Harbaugh is very irritated and probably is coaching the Bears next year, but Michigan's coaching succession line remains in tact.
And Michigan plays in the National Championship game against Georgia, results TBD.