Qseverus

November 17th, 2023 at 4:32 PM ^

“Smith is being targeted, along with Stalions, as a “fall guy” in the NCAA’s probe into the school, Smith said. Both of them are being “thrown under the bus.”
 

It’s unclear to me why Smith thinks Stalions is being “thrown under the bus” if he knows Stalions was indeed cheating and was financing it himself. How can Stalions be considered a “fall guy” when he admitted to Smith he was guilty?

Joined: 09/13/2012

MGoPoints: 448

mblue1221

November 17th, 2023 at 9:18 PM ^

Because it makes no sense logically. NCAA does not specifically say who is considered an “advanced scout” other than basically people employed by the University, Football staff.

The whole basis of this farce is that 3rd parties, employed by Stallions, not associated or paid by the University were somehow “advanced scouts” for the Football team.

If this is true then ALL teams, coaches, assistants that have ever passed along signals from their opponents to other teams have been acting as “advanced scouts” (I.e. OSU/Rutgers advance scouted Michigan for Purdue last year and passed along all of Michigans signals to Purdue to help then beat Michigan). Probably a vast majority of Teams in the Big Ten at some point this season, last season, etc. have acted as “advanced scouts” for other universities by simply sharing signals/information they obtained during games to other University programs that would face their previous opponent at some point during the season. 
 

An analyst who finds a YouTube video of the sideline of a future opponent and uses it to help decipher the opponents signs by NCAA and Big Ten logic just committed advanced scouting, compromised the integrity of the game and endangered player safety. 

Joined: 11/17/2023

MGoPoints: 131