UM fined $10,000 for comments following OSU game; Jim Harbaugh publically reprimanded by B1G

The first memory to me is the Lantry FG and schools voting for OSU to go to the Rose Bowl in stead of us.  Then the constant garbage that we have witnessed throughout.  It really annoys that we give but never get anything in return from this conference.  When Harbaugh went to satellite camps the SEC commish complains and no support from BIG commish. I also never heard Delaney going to bat for Michigan in the 2006 NC Game. They fill the BIG network with OSU players and then ask them about Harbaugh's whining.  I want to know what we get for our loyalty to this conference?

 I don't care that they fined Harbaugh for 10k, but not to include the admission on poor official vetting on their part is inexcusable.  This demonstrates their attitude that this relationship is one way and you just have to take what they dish out.  I don't want to see Harbaugh sour on college coaching and I don't want to see the M football team get trashed because of this.  Delaney needs his powers severely curtailed.

Bite me! Sincerely, U of M students, staff, alumni & friends

Would any fan be irate if Michigan left for ACC or Big Twelve? I'd suggest they consider it. Fertile recruiting ground, southern recruits could have family see them play a few times a year. Texas!! It could be amazing. I'd be okay, obviously.

Seems pretty unsportsmanlike to hire refs that are obviously biased for the biggest game of the year. And just because he is a leader doesn't mean he should vandy coat and cover up feelings of disappointment and anger. Even though he is teaching them lessons every day, one of he most important ones to learn is to be able to express your feelings in a constructive manner. Which he did. He wasn't like f bomb the refs this and up their ass that. He said he was disappointed in a pretty calm manner like 12 times. It wasn't disrespectful. It was honest and as everyone else has said/feels...people shouldn't have to lie about refs being perfect. This world has got pretty delusional about now but come fuck on...

I have a feeling that a deal was struck behind closed doors - a slap on the wrist in exchange for a public statement by Michigan that the issue is closed

I bet that we could raise 10k to pay that fine for Harbaugh. Heck, if he would have said something like "what the fuck kind of officiating was that??" I bet we'd raise the money to cover that fine too.

How about answering the question on why admitted OSU fans were allowed to ref the Game, when at least one of them was specifically not allowed in 2006 because of his ties to Ohio?

Will that cost Harbaugh another 10k to get that answer?

(Ordinarily, I hate when a coach goes in this direction of criticizing the officiating...but it is warranted in this case).

Obviously, The Game is returning to its' status of being the Big Ten showcase of the year even more than the CCG.

If you want to officiate in this game...earn it on the merits of your officiating, IMO.

Let a bunch of OSU backers who were suspended in the past for making bad calls officiate this game. We should fine the B1G 100 K for putting these REFS on the field.

on the fine. keep them coming. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/94570042/

Fuck the B1G and those shitheads who run it. Harbaugh was right, the officiating sucked monkey balls and the refs were in the tank for the Buck Fucks. End of story.

Fuck the b10. They have this love affair with osu, fuck em.

From this point forward, just to stick it to the conference AND the media, Harbaugh should answer all questions like this: "I'm just here so I don't get fined."

OK, playing devil's advocate here-
I was actually surprised the fine was so low.  Biggest game of the year, national attention- I was expecting the fine to be much higher. $10,000 fine (to a coach who makes $9M a year) is a slap on the wrist.

All conferences rules against criticizing officiating and escalating fines for it, and if you think about it, that makes sense. Harbaugh tells his players to let him worry about the officials, to protect them. Baseball managers do the same.You can understand the conference needing to protect their officials (at least publicly). It is a difficult job, and the fans and players are often hostile. The conference has to have their back. In the long run, protecting them is  probably a good thing- you don't want Meyer and other coaches riling up fans and manipulating, politicing, and intimidating officials.

They don't want their dirty laundry aired in public. The players did their job. I assume Manuel  is doing his job. Any further conversation and complaints are probably being handled in private.

The fans and the media are another matter, and the more attention can be focused on the numerous calls- not just The Spot, which most of the press seem to shrug their shoulders at- but all the holding penalties not called; the PIs; the false starts that Harbaugh was talking about; whether the penalty for throwing the playsheet was justified and proper. 
The more video and conversation (outside, not here among Wolverine fans) sustained about these matters, the more controversy (ESPN LOVES controversy!), the more the suggestion that Michigan got robbed and is every bit OSU's equal if not superior, the more Michigan stays in the CFP conversation. So...keep it up!

 

Harbaugh means ... "I got your back" ..."I don't take bullshit from nobody" ... "the Man doesn't determine our worth, it is how we perform on the field" ... "my glasses say I am anti-establishment" ... "the fine without video evidence means I am correct" ... best of all ? ... " I am a bad-ass, mother fucker who you can't push around me or any of my players". Well worth the $10k.

Fuck the B1G, I don't care if people think we're whinnying, fuck them too.

This genuine, he fucking means it.

They should take the $10,000 from Purdue's end of the BTN, since their equal cut is largely earned by us anyway.

Pay it in pennies

Well, Delaney, either the officiating was an epic display of incompetence, in which case you should resign, or it was actually orchestrated as part of as ongoing pattern of corruption, in which case you should be prosecuted under RICO. Pick your poison, dipshit.

Harbaugh says reffing sucks (in a press conference, not on national TV) and he's right: $10,000 fine

Marcus Hall FLIPS OFF AN ENTIRE STADIUM ON NATIONAL TV: "No Urban, honey, it's ok, YOU pick how to punish that mean old man." No fine, no suspension, no reprimand, all bullshit

and news media that links to those video.

And buy a page of ad on major newspapers to support Coach Harbaugh. 

and news media that links to those video.

And buy a page of ad on major newspapers to support Coach Harbaugh. 

against a call for accountability. As others have pointed out, they are either incompetent or corrupt (or both). 

We need that video.

Time to crumble the old guard.

 

That's chump change compared to professional sports