Purdue football coach Ryan Walters on Michigan scandal: 'They aren't allegations'

He said they'll huddle up more than ever so he's implying they couldn't change all their signs and that they'll have to do stuff they don't want to do because of Michigan. He sounds like he's hedging a potential loss with an excuse.

Jerk him off? Blow the coach? Methinks you’re projecting here pal 

"Buckeye Elite" mocks message board person for self-aggrandizing.

And what are you the epitome of?

Lurking a rival team's message boards, getting butt hurt because fans of that team are perhaps a little biased towards that team, and then announcing to that message board that you just had to respond.  I'm sure that your circles are proud of the man that you are.  

At least our coach doesn't berate 90 year old elite coaches to make himself feel better at a game he he knows his team should have lost.

Wow. The Buckeye elite sound just like the Spartan common.

Your league also told the playoff teams in person scouting was ok for the biggest games and in reviewing the advance scouting rule found its advantage negligible

I am hesitant to use this as a “smoking gun” argument because in both cases the eventual outcome were not positive in our favor. The CFP immediately added a rule against in-person scouting, so they only allowed it because of an oversight. The NCAA ultimately shot down and disagreed with the recommendation to remove the rule too.

I mean, Karlaftis picked Purdue over Michigan recently.  It happens.

If we knew what plays they were calling, why did we only stop them from scoring in the second half? Wouldn’t it have been an all game thing? 
 

Sign stealing in game is LEGAL. So it seems more likely, in your scenario, that we picked up on their signals throughout the game and applied them effectively in the second half. Which is, again, entirely legal. Add in the fact that it’s been well-documented that OSU changed their signals in 2022. 
 

The NCAA itself nearly overturned the rule in 2021 because it gave “minimal or no competitive advantage.” Largely, because everyone has a designated staffer whose sole job it is to watch the opposing sidelines and try to decipher their signals. There’s also a reported network of “comparing notes” between Big Ten staffs. Which is itself very common in college football (I remember a story from early 2022 about UM and Georgia comparing notes on Alabama in the CFP). 
 

"sure we broke the rules, sure we cheated, but it didn't help us at all, because knowing the other teams' plays in advance simply does not help," isn't, in my opinion, a very compelling argument.
 

Here’s my theory on that. The fact that EVERYONE tries to do this, with varying degrees of success, is what makes the advantage of doing so very minimal. But by NOT doing it, you’re putting yourself at a competitive DIS-advantage. It’s not an advantage if everyone does it, it’s a level playing field. If you don’t do what everyone else is doing, it’s an uphill battle.

Where Stalions went wrong (I’ll hesitate to say “Michigan” until there’s some evidence showing this went higher than a rogue support staffer) was skirting along the grey areas of the rules in his quest to accomplish his goals. Do I think Michigan is the only school to have someone on staff trying to find loopholes and skirting the rules to find an advantage somewhere? Absolutely not. Hell, I’d wager Michigan is far from the only school to have someone on staff (under their own desire or directed from the program) to attend or film games of opponents. 

Except OSU already said they changed their signs leading up to 2022. 

Which makes complete sense as sign stealing is completely so like Seth has said you always change your signs before the games that matter.

Not sure why that is so hard for people to grasp.

22 OSU changed their signs, and they said as much. They never knew how well this shit storm was going to go for them and how much everybody else would pile on, so now they're saying "but we didn't change them enough!"