Third Day Investigations

Submitted by GoBlue96 on November 21st, 2023 at 12:25 PM

Looks like they are having some turnover at our favorite PI firm.

I feel like if it was Michigan that hired a PI and found violations at OSU, it would still have been only Michigan getting punished for hiring someone to investigate another team.

 

https://twitter.com/Park3rC/status/1727009003329434037

 

slimj091

November 21st, 2023 at 5:01 PM ^

Honestly I feel like at this point it's not worth it to be objective. Everyone believes that Harbaugh stole Ryan Day's controller and forced him to lose to him for two years in a row because someone posted rumors on twitter. The Media, and the Big Ten haven't been taking anything with a grain of salt. I don't see why we have to.

Yeoman

November 21st, 2023 at 1:14 PM ^

No wonder we can't get the counteroffensive off the ground; that's now four different firms rumored to be the PI. (Severely stretching the word "firm" to include Chris Day's fly-by-night one-man-part-time outfit but whatever....)

What's going on? I've always been of the opinion there were two (an investigator and a conduit) but it never occurred to me there could be more than that.

bronxblue

November 21st, 2023 at 2:08 PM ^

I mean, this is all interesting as an intellectual exercise but clearly the B1G and the NCAA don't care about the source or motivation behind the investigation into UM so I doubt this'll move the needle much.  It's been funny for people to act like another PI firm in NH having some connection to Ryan Day's brother's firm is beyond the pale, as if Manchester, NH is some metropolis and not smaller in population than Ann Arbor.

If UM beats OSU this weekend I fully expect Ryan Day to melt into the field and run off into the train, straight back to OSU and then, more than likely, into an OC job in the NFL because there's no chance he can show his face in Columbus again and be taken seriously.

Kevin14

November 21st, 2023 at 2:11 PM ^

Fwiw, OSU hiring a PI firm isn't unprecedented in CFB.  In the SEC, I believe it's relatively common for schools to hire PI firms, especially with regards to recruiting.

bronxblue

November 21st, 2023 at 2:56 PM ^

I've heard rumors about hiring PI firms for a lot of reasons in the SEC, but at the same time I've also gathered nobody in the NCAA or SEC really gives a shit about what they find as much as it's just business intelligence to use during the next recruiting cycle.  Like, pre- NIL if they find one school is handing bags of cash to recruits the lesson isn't "that isn't allowed and we should stop it" as much as "we gotta get a bigger bag".  Which is probably the right thing to do overall but also why you never saw SEC schools running to the press because they couldn't beat Georgia or Alabama.