RG3 with a logical take (Rich Eisen Show)

The powers that be have no intentions of removing the team from future games or post-season play should tell us all we need to know that this is a Harbaugh witch hunt but the townsfolk are quickly dispersing. 

I don't think that can be definitively stated. On the contrary, I suspect that if Harbaugh and U-M prevail in their case on Friday (and thereafter - Friday is just a hearing on the TRO) then the B1G may amend its disciplinary action and suspend the team which is closer to the way the rules are written in the bylaws and Handbook. 

Hold up...

THE GAME...is the real test. UM loses that and the last two years will have a giant asterisk in the minds of many and  will be questioned nonstop by the talking heads. 

Pete Finebaum hasn't repeatedly lately his oft-stated opinion that "Jim Harbaugh is constitutionally unable to beat Ohio State."

Michigan has to be aware that if the B1G does this once, they'll do it again.  

espn isn’t as much of an investigative arm as it’s become petitti’s mouthpiece. 
 

I just wonder about how Max Silverman feels about it

Which is fucked up because Fox is paying the B1G's bills, not ESPN. What benefit is there to working with ESPN other than to make sure they give the ultimate screw job to Michigan?

That is definitely what it feels like Wendyk5, ESPN seems fully embedded in whatever this is. 

I just watched the clip and it doesn't seem to me like he's explicitly saying ESPN got the information from the Big Ten. He just says, "We know things." It's possible they know things because, as he acknowledged, everyone does it and it's common knowledge, and so everyone knows. Saying that ESPN knows things just gives them some cache -- they're the network in the know, when really, they're all in the know. And you could interpret the word "elaborate" to mean that Conor Stalions had multiple people going to games for him, and that could be construed as elaborate, but it's nothing that we didn't already know. 

The most striking example of that for me was the "Michigan should embrace the role of villain" story that came out immediately after litigation was filed. It was a way to reframe what they'd done as a benefit to Michigan. You can't sue us, we didn't do you any harm.

To a degree, sure but if someone tried to prevent you from doing the job you loved with many people counting on your expertise without properly taking the correct steps to ensure you deserved to be removed, you’d be pissed off too and want to clear the air.

It all goes back to allowing the proper investigation process to take place and let the evidence, or lack thereof, speak for itself. If you move on and let this shit just happen, you allow these actions to go unmerited. Fuck that. I won’t do what you tell me.

At first he said it was piling on Harbaugh by the NCAA. Changed his tune after being told to toe the company line.

Respectfully disagree. Harbaugh should completely ignore Finebaum, as should we all. 

Harbaugh came in and threatened the SECs lock on talent and power when he became the UM HC...his satellite camps and direct shots at Saban and Co. got under his skin.  

I suspect they have released all the dirt they have. The fact that Warde found on after the flight about JH's suspension from social media says it all. 

Although the manner in which Stalions conducted his "elaborate" sign stealing scheme is - in our collective view as Michigan fans - a distinction without a difference when compared to what all programs have done for years (and was done to Michigan prior to the BCG last year), it was definitely a violation of the rules if Stalions himself attended any games. It's a gray area at best if his friends and associates attended in his place. Do the rules make sense? No, they do not.