Ryan Day - "We've learned a lot about what's been going on the past two years"
It seems Cryan Ryan hasn't learned his lesson yet.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:46 PM ^
If Day did hire the PI firm, directly or otherwise, then the damage it did has probably exceeded his wildest dreams.
Michigan only has one option left, and fortunately for them, it’s the one option where you can really, truly hurt him back just as badly, if not worse.
Winning on the field.
Day, at least for now, has baked in excuses that seemingly the entire country has bought into for why they’ve lost these last two years. If he loses on Saturday, the damage he’s done to Michigan will still be there. But he will have his own reckoning to deal with. He will have lost to an interim coach, a team without their head coach, their LBs coach, and without their “sign stealing savant” who apparently conducted the biggest college football scandal of the last 50 years. There will be no other excuse to hide behind. OSU fans will have to come to terms with the fact that they were just beaten by a better team.
And that’s not a realization that I’m 100% confident Ryan Day can survive as a head coach. It would be abject humiliation.
November 21st, 2023 at 8:38 AM ^
I don't know this guy, whether he's credible or not, but he's saying Day and OSU have paid for the investigation:
November 21st, 2023 at 10:07 AM ^
also interesting they possibly used a PO box as an LLC address against the law
November 21st, 2023 at 11:53 AM ^
First and foremost among the things I'm absolutely certain of despite only circumstantial evidence: the snooping wasn't a response to the losses. It started three years ago as a response to Harbaugh's Al Washington comment.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:38 PM ^
Has there actually been any confirmation that it was Ryan Day who hired the PI firm, or is it just something that gets repeated?
The main source I kept hearing it from was Isaiah Hole, and his credibility has been tainted a bit the past 4 weeks because so much of what he guaranteed has been wrong.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:53 PM ^
Nope! Just all bs talk
November 20th, 2023 at 10:01 PM ^
It probably wasn't Day himself who hired the firm. That would leave an awkward paper trail if found out. But someone at OSU for sure.
It's not some random coincidence that OSU insiders knew in advance when every leak was dropping. How would they know this about a story involving a rival school? Even our own insiders didn't know as much.
November 20th, 2023 at 10:08 PM ^
If not OSU, then who? Sparty isn't smart enough to pull a move like that.
I don't need evidence. Those fucks in Columbus, or their lackeys, hired that firm. They had the most to gain.
November 20th, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^
Man, I don't know. Harlon Barnett was talking about Dantonio having some "secret formula" for beating Michigan, and then this news drops right before the MSU game. Coincidence?
November 20th, 2023 at 10:37 PM ^
I think he was just talking about Dantonio's record against Michigan.
The OSU guys have known when all the news leaks were going to drop. MSU guys, nothing much.
November 20th, 2023 at 10:51 PM ^
Is Pete Thamel considered an OSU guy? I don’t know a ton about him, but seems like he rose up the ranks reporting in East Coast sports and Syracuse/college basketball.
Thamel has been the guy with the earliest drop on almost everything.
November 20th, 2023 at 11:37 PM ^
I don't think Pete Thamel cares any more for Ohio State than he does for Michigan. He saw a golden opportunity to make a bigger name for himself, gain prestige, get a nice raise from ESPN...maybe, etc, and the asshole ran with it.
November 20th, 2023 at 11:34 PM ^
I'm sure you're right. It just seems like something that little bastard Dantonio would do.
November 20th, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
Sam has been up front about the OSU connection from the very beginning—and not behind a paywall, but on TKA—and I trust him on this.
November 21st, 2023 at 5:35 AM ^
Does it matter who actually hired the firm? As we have heard over and over again, the coach is responsible for everything which happens with the program. Whether the payments came from Day's checking account doesn't matter. He knew what they were doing and without a doubt saw whatever they came up and may have had a hand in what the game plan was for what they were going to do with what they found.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:25 PM ^
The only reason Michigan is in this mess is because he is afraid of Jim Harbaugh and nothing will change my mind!!
SIGN JIM TO A CONTRACT TOMORROW!!
November 20th, 2023 at 9:27 PM ^
Coward
November 20th, 2023 at 9:27 PM ^
All I’m taking from this is that if we lose this game, his postgame tirade is going to make the ND postgame look like child‘s play.
We absolutely can’t let this guy win.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:27 PM ^
Pathetic. Cringey. Weasley. Defeatist. Desperate.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:28 PM ^
Well, it looks like Michigan is just going to have to cave their heads in.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:28 PM ^
Screw that guy. Can't stand people who refuse to take responsibility and instead think they can hide behind excuses.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:29 PM ^
Even if they win the game will have a giant asterisk next it because Harbaugh wasn’t in the game. He is still 1-2 vs Harbaugh.
What a pathetic sack of shit.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:51 PM ^
Unfortunately it’ll only have an asterisk next to it for us Michigan fans.
For everyone else, all of whom have seemingly bought into this narrative that sign stealing somehow netted Michigan 2-3 TDs in each OSU game the last two years, there would be no asterisk.
November 20th, 2023 at 11:35 PM ^
You must be kidding. It's all the talking heads will talk about next year. Can day beat Michigan with harbaugh at the helm?
November 21st, 2023 at 11:32 AM ^
Maybe if you listen to Klatt, Portnoy or Cowherd. But for most part, everyone else will say "last year was the REAL Michigan, and OSU scored a big victory for the sanctity of college football, truth, justice, and the American way."
November 20th, 2023 at 9:29 PM ^
Can we please delete this? Nobody needs to see this filth on game week.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:43 PM ^
I dunno. it’s hate week, and this is making it even easier.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:30 PM ^
I really hope Sherrone does not shake hands pre game with this treacherous cnut !!!
November 20th, 2023 at 9:30 PM ^
Oh neat. Well go fuck yourself in the face Ryan. See you Saturday bitch
November 20th, 2023 at 9:43 PM ^
I say Sherrone shakes Day’s hand, pregame, really f’king hard so the cameras can catch him being soft.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:50 PM ^
Actually, I hope he shakes his hand, looks him in the eye, and asks: "what's your excuse this year?"
November 20th, 2023 at 9:30 PM ^
I can’t believe he actually even said this. I actually think this guy is digging his own grave. What a moron!
November 21st, 2023 at 10:21 AM ^
Well, I don't think Ryan Day has ever been called a strategic thinker
November 20th, 2023 at 9:33 PM ^
So is this an admission that they did, in fact, hire the PI firm?
November 20th, 2023 at 9:34 PM ^
Really leaning into the whole “i only lost by 3 touchdowns in consecutive years because of a failed amazon vacuum salesman”
November 20th, 2023 at 9:58 PM ^
I’m stealing this lmao
November 21st, 2023 at 9:36 AM ^
Really leaning into the whole “i only lost by 3 touchdowns in consecutive years because of a failed amazon vacuum salesman”
To be fair, he only lost by two touchdowns in 2021 😂
November 20th, 2023 at 9:34 PM ^
I love that his hairline makes a perfect M.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:35 PM ^
Or a V for vermin
November 20th, 2023 at 9:35 PM ^
If they truly believe they lost because of "scouting" they are screwed..we are in their head
November 20th, 2023 at 9:35 PM ^
Thanks for the bulletin board material third base!
November 20th, 2023 at 9:36 PM ^
Does he honestly believe what he’s saying?? A grown man, football coach, leader of young men, and he’s spewing this garbage. He doesn’t even have to address it. Others in Ohio would do that for him. Just say ‘no comment.’ What an embarrassment of a coach.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:37 PM ^
Took him that long to learn he's been getting his ass kicked for two years?
November 21st, 2023 at 11:55 AM ^
He still thinks they only played one bad half. I can't believe nobody's asked him yet which one he means.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:37 PM ^
He can barely contain himself when the homer interviewer says “You took the high road during this entire thing.” Pure comedy.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:57 PM ^
Saban would say he is eating the rat poison...going along with the ego stroking, not staying hungry.
Let the hammer fall! Go Blue!
November 20th, 2023 at 9:37 PM ^
Eat shit fuck stick.
November 20th, 2023 at 9:37 PM ^
He uses botox
November 20th, 2023 at 9:38 PM ^
This used to be a respectful rivalry unlike the assholes down in EL who turned that series toxic.
Well the asshole in Columbus turned this one toxic as well because of his little teeny weenie issues.