Timing of "Hang 100 on em" and 4th and 1

Sorry if this is snowflakey, but I stay away from mgoblog on weekends since I record games and don't want any spoilers. I saw the "Ryan Day's brother became a manager of a PI firm" thread, and have some thoughts, but the thread is probably dead at this point. So I'm creating a new topic about the timing of a couple key things, since I don't see it mentioned anywhere else.

So I've been keeping up on all this, and when I read about a private investigation firm giving the NCAA info on Michigan, and definitely wondering who that firm is. I've seen rumours about Ryan Day being behind the investigation, or hiring a PI or whatver, and I figure, okay, that's just rumour.

And I'm trying not to go crazy about all this, because I acknowledge that I get almost all my info from this site, so I know it's biased. And sometimes, I feel like I'm being radicalized or something, because when you step back and look at what most people here are saying, it's "everyone is conspiring against us" nonsense that, if I saw it on some other board, I'd laugh at it.

But, what has made me read crazy stuff like "Ryan Day hired a PI to look into Michigan and find whatever dirt he can" and nod my head has been the "hang a hundred on em" story. First, a link:

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/ohio-state-coach-ryan-day-threatened-to--hang-100--on-michigan-a

I'll quote the relevant part:

Earlier this week, the Ohio State and Michigan ball coaches allegedly got into it on a Big Ten head coaches conference call. According to reports, while Day was speaking, Harbaugh cut him off to accuse the second-year head coach of holding on-field drills before the Friday 8/7 start date for such practices. Harbaugh mentioned linebackers coach Al Washington by name and referenced a photo taken of Washington working with players that had been making the rounds. Day, incensed, replied “How about I worry about my team and you worry about yours?” This, folks, is what we call midseason form.

Then, Day went on to tell his team we're going to hang 100 on em blah blah (over three years later, they're halfway there fyi). I dunno. I think about this story a lot, I guess. Especially his reply -- "how about I worry about my team and you worry about yours" -- instead of denying it, or even saying he'll look into it, it was more like he resented the fact that he was being accused. It just sounds like the kind of guy who would be pissed about being called out for breaking the rules, and want to spread that around. Not a far stretch, I mean a lot of people on this board have advocated for that on the Michigan side -- to go scorched earth and dig up everyone else's secrets, etc. So it's given me the opinion of "sure, it's possible, very possible" and made me feel okay to think that, given that since I'm a nobody, it doesn't really matter what I think.

So, when the link with the incorporation of the PI firm comes out, and it has dates, my first thought was to see when it happened relative to this story. I'm not sure exactly when the Big Ten conference call happened, but all the stories about it were in August 2020. This 4th and 1 Investigations was created September 14 2020. That timing seems too weird to think that these things are not related.

 

tl; dr -- It was August 2020 when Harbaugh accused Ryan Day of practices before he was supposed to, and Day got pissed at him in a call with other coaches. September 2020 is when this PI firm was created.