When dealing with a tyrant (Petitti Snowflake)

So Blue_Goose is the original poster, but goblu330 is apologizing for the OP and then Blue_Goose is consoling goblue330.  Is this one person with two accounts who got them mixed up?  

I thought I was obsessed with Michigan and MGoBlog, but that is another level.

Edit: I do think the OP has a good point thought, which I asked in the Ghost of Fritz Crisler Diary.  You can't fight the boss.  There may be "contract" with the B1G, but end of the day, they really can do whatever they want.  I was a negotiator at a former company and the CEO was a USC law school grad.  Whenever we did anything shady he'd say the worst that would happen is they would send us a cease and desists.  It was like the one thing he learned in law school.  I'm sure there are lots of examples to the contrary, but my impression is that contracts and laws don't mean anything if you aren't dealing with moral people. Most of the time it is too much effort to seek justice.  That is Michigan's problem is that we keep trying to be the bigger person.  I both respect it and hate it.  

It’s too dumb for me to get too bent out of shape. I hope UM still can win and believe they will. It’s a shame, but now it’s clear some actual ‘shenanigans’ happened. Now I just hope this precedent is followed for all situations that are the same offense and it gets the same treatment. OSU and Purdue’s collusion was advanced scouting and sign stealing. 3 games. That’s what will drive me crazy - If it’s not uniformly decided. Otherwise, let us take the punishment. Wrong was actually (apparently?!) done. Punish the others. You have no basis not to. 

I think he'd make a great coach-In East Lansing.

We look like a confederacy of dunces, wandering lost in a dark room filled with low furniture.

Exactly this. 

And all these so called insiders on this board can make like a tree and fuck off. 

Blah blah blah binder. Blah blah blah unified Michigan blah blah blah OSU blah blah blah. 

Finally the Michigan that I've loved since I was a little kid was going to take the gloves off and fight back. 

All of that to roll over and give in yet again just pisses me off in ways I'm having a hard time coherently expressing. 

In half an hour I went from having a ton of respect for Ono and a modicum of respect for Warde to having none at all for either.

Could be (in fact it seems likely) that Ono and Warde had the rug pulled out from under them as well.  They both made pretty strong statements/stances in support. 

Did the regents pull the plug?

Did Michigan secretly trade for something?

Did Harbaugh start to see this was becoming a distraction and was negatively starting to impact their chances of winning?

BTW, if Pettiti acted as posited, expect more in the future.  

Yep. Not the best showing by Ono, Warde and BoR. I don't think I can ever get over how the left the Harbaugh, our alumni, the coaches and the players to dry. The shame to them hasn't been mitigated. So, yeah. I am more upset about our own. Fucking politicians and the suits. Always throw everyone below them under the bus to advance their motive. 

The reality is that Michigan is part of a collective that gives a lot of power to the leadership of that collective. If all the other members AND the leadership team up on any one member of the collective that lone member is fucked. Period. It might as well be The Eye of Sauron. The only fight was keeping that collective off your back until The NCAA was done (in other words, not this season). It was always about pushing it to 2024. Everyone knows this is a team that has a chance to win it all and next year they'll probably be not as good. People will accept some BS suspensions next year so the battle was not really to beat anyone because you don't have the power to do that. Michigan, as a member, gave The B1G the power to do what they did and The B1G was intent on doing it one way or another.

The loss is when the punishment came. That's it. I don't like and it's a bullshit scandal mixed with a bigger bullshit punishment but it was always happening. That's what so few here want to understand. Also, heads up but The NCAA isn't gonna pass on it either. It's just naive and wishful thinking that they'll come back with a pass or very weak Level 3 stuff. They'll drop as much as they can on Michigan. 

Anyway, it was a losing fight to begin with because they waited to hit back in any way at all until after the larger PR battle was lost. This shit began and UM said nothing for two weeks as nut shot after nut shot came out each day they stayed silent. This allowed the exaggerated, BS, fake outrage to build and that very outrage led to this suspension. So choosing to fight when they did was bad enough but to do it and then back down now is worse...unless a new factor was added in. A factor like an upper-staff member being involved or the league outright saying that you will not play in a B1GCG no matter what if you keep going and lose the TRO. 

When there was a risk previously unknown or not on the table added to their math, Michigan decided to fold. That's it. Maybe it's for the best but probably not. Either way, the first thing that has to happen starting two years ago is BASIC BACKGROUND CHECKS ON ALL PROSPECTIVE HIRINGS. This shit has been ridiculous under Harbaugh. Really bad. Second, you actually start the dossier of dirt that you pretended to have. Better late than never. Third, start getting lawyers and Michigan politicians ready for a fight with both the league and NCAA in the future because it may be needed. Don't be caught off guard again. Other than that, take your lumps and just go win. Nobody will give a shit if you just go win.

The only villain I see here is Petitti. I haven't lost respect for anyone because I don't know what went down -- all opinions put forth in this thread and others are just opinions, most of them fueled by anger and seem to be worst case scenarios. I'll wait for the documentary to come out, with actual interviews with the real people who are speaking on the record (or JUB's book with people willing to do the same. To hell with unnamed sources). And most importantly, I'll support Michigan football until they have unequivocally shown, with provable facts, that they don't deserve my support. 

Nah this is a message board. There's a large portion of our fanbase they is pissed. 

That grounds for discussing it over and over and over again.

There's other places you can scream nonsense into the void 

It doesn't even matter if the coaches knew and that is the problem. I get why Michigan didn't take the full on grey area defense, because you aren't dealing with sane entities in the NCAA and the Big Ten, but nothing that happened is actually egregiously against any rule and even if you want to argue that it is, it should be nothing more than a fine, a suspension for Stalions for any in-person games and a re-wording of the rule. 

What Football? You think these players and coaches are motivated by what BoR and Admin has done? No. You know the excitement you saw last week? It won't be there this week. Now they are fighting against all opponents, media and their own admin and BoR. These are just kids. UM just accepted that they cheated. Fuck that. 

If Pettiti ever sets foot in Michigan, I hope he gets pulled over and ticketed for going 1 over the speed limit.  And someone gets a picture of him talking to the cops, and unnamed sources claim it was because he committed all kinds of nefarious crimes and it runs wild through twitter.

It's pretty clearly #3. The league probably threatened more action against the team if Michigan didn't accept the suspension. I'm guessing Harbaugh is confident enough in his team and staff to pull out the Ws. He will still be game planning and that's probably good enough.

Just put it behind us for the year and be done with it.

#1 makes no sense. If new evidence was found, the B1G would use it to hurt Michigan further, not settle. 
 

For instance: If the B1G obtained evidence that an assistant coach knew what CS was doing, the B1G would suspend that coach, not look the other way.

That’s what I am hoping. This “scandal” really blindsided Michigan. None of the insiders heard any rumblings. 

It sucks we can’t really predict what happens in the future, but I am going to enjoy this ride. Frankly, I think people are severely overrating the importance of a head coach on gameday. 

Perfectly stated.

Right, as I said in another comment, their "investigation" was a couple pictures and articles in the public domain which didn't conclusively demonstrate anything at all. With that standard of investigation justifying this level of punishment, there is no bottom to the depravity we should expect from our conference's malevolent governance.