New SI Article: Alleges Ball Boys Stealing Signs
https://wolverineswire.usatoday.com/2023/10/29/si-one-big-ten-team-alle…
Article goes on to say:
Multiple sources from one Big Ten school told SI that a coach at a different school called them before playing Michigan to warn them about Wolverines ball boys on their sideline listening to play calls and communicating information to the Michigan sideline—holding the football up in one hand to indicate an expected pass, and in the other hand to indicate a run, for instance. (Sources at the school that was warned said they experienced nothing in the game to implicate the Michigan ball boys.)
October 29th, 2023 at 10:20 PM ^
Kramer never would have done that
October 29th, 2023 at 11:00 PM ^
Apparently they did think of the ball boys. Who's next? The custodial staff at Michigan Stadium?
October 29th, 2023 at 11:16 PM ^
Victor the frisbee catching dog is next
October 30th, 2023 at 8:57 AM ^
He's wearing a wire for sure.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
Just realizing I didn't link in OP, sorry all! Maybe the mods can edit
October 29th, 2023 at 10:08 PM ^
Thanks but don’t click. It’s what they want
October 29th, 2023 at 10:10 PM ^
I still haven't read one article about this. I refuse to give them the clicks.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:19 PM ^
This is the only place I read and I let everyone else add snippets in the comments
October 30th, 2023 at 7:43 AM ^
Same. That's the only reason this shit keeps coming, people keep reading it.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:04 PM ^
Can OSU get anymore pathetic? Lol!
October 29th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
Please tell me that Bobby Boucher wasn’t involved. I know he’s the water boy, not a ball boy - but, this speculation continues to grow… perhaps flounder is a better word.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:05 PM ^
But still not a word from ESPN about Ryan Day’s brother’s activities. An important development in their story, no?
October 29th, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
I'm uninformed about this. Can you share?
October 29th, 2023 at 11:39 PM ^
His brother is a private investigator with a firm called "4th and 1." Speculation is that his firm is the one that caught stallions and forwarded the material to the NCAA.
October 30th, 2023 at 10:04 AM ^
"With a firm" sounds like he went to work for a firm that already existed. It was incorporated the same time he left his DEA job; to me it looks like he is the firm.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:08 PM ^
This is the point I think I have to stop reading about college football for a while.
If this was basically nothing and a smear campaign: great job by whoever orchestrated it and proves Michigan’s success is no different than any other team’s.
If this was a vast cheating network that totally broke the rules: great, if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying. Michigan played by the rules for so long and where did it get them?
October 29th, 2023 at 10:08 PM ^
I'm waiting for media that has absolutely nothing to do with college football, like Cosmopolitan and Gun & Garden, to start writing articles about this. Everyone, jump on!
October 29th, 2023 at 10:15 PM ^
High Times!
October 29th, 2023 at 10:16 PM ^
"Gun & Garden" -- one of my favorite magazines!
October 29th, 2023 at 10:18 PM ^
Guitar World
The Hockey News
October 29th, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
College Hockey News already has a bit of an anti-Michigan obsession to it from the Mel Pearson days... and our nefarious plot to duck playing WMU.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:52 PM ^
Michigan vs Everybody
October 29th, 2023 at 10:23 PM ^
How about a detailed Cosmo article with both Britney Spears and Taylor Swift sharing their experiences with “signs” they get from others.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:23 PM ^
Cat Fancy.
Tell me they aren't in Ryan Day's pocket.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:08 PM ^
Yeah written by someone that's never been a coach. So teams name plays in code like "orange 32" or "aces wide". I assume the ball boy somehow already knows the opponent play list?
October 29th, 2023 at 10:09 PM ^
If only coaches everywhere started using a system of disguising their signals 100 years ago to thwart such a practice........
October 29th, 2023 at 10:09 PM ^
So our ball boys are smarter than your coaches?
October 29th, 2023 at 10:48 PM ^
and tougher
October 29th, 2023 at 10:10 PM ^
Good thing the ball boy ruse distracted them from the listening devices planted in the PB&J sandwiches thrown around the tunnel.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:38 PM ^
You really don’t want to know what is imbedded in the Gatorade and water containers, the stationary bikes, benches, or equipment carts.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:57 PM ^
This is the first year of Peloton
Blame Peloton!
October 29th, 2023 at 11:10 PM ^
A light dawns dimly...I'm starting to understand what was really going on with Zach Smith's shopping list. One vibration = run, two vibrations = pass.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:11 PM ^
The next thing we’ll learn is Coach’s wives seduced players at their hotel the night before the game.
The feeding frenzy is an endless supply of unverified smelly bullshit fish.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:14 PM ^
Michigan knows who built the pyramids but won’t tell us! Sources tell me
October 29th, 2023 at 10:14 PM ^
Has this thing jumped the shark yet?
October 29th, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
Not yet. Just in:
Michigan spent its off-week in a nondescript white van parked in front of Ryan Day's house
The Wolverines were off Saturday, but a low-level staffer with CIA hacking experience was able to add six touchdowns and 800 yards to McCarthy's total by accessing the NCAA's mainframe via a high tech password cracking algorithm. It might seem a bit disreputable, but also the NCAA's master password was actually just "password," so it's hard to be too mad at Michigan.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:27 PM ^
DD - this is significantly inaccurate. It was not a white van. There were multiple vehicles - in fact, the same, exact three Coach buses that transport the Michigan team from Glick to their hotel on Friday afternoon / evening.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:16 PM ^
I mean, man... this article from ESPN was less than a week ago. But ok "multiple sources from one Big Ten School" and lazy USA Today writer. If this is going to be a "thing" then an awful lot of schools are going to have a problem.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:19 PM ^
Jesus, what’s next? Harbaugh’s mom stealing signs? This is getting ridiculous and shows how desperate some morons are for clicks.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:19 PM ^
I hear the color guard is in on it as well.
If they raise the US flag, your team is going to get your ass kicked.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:21 PM ^
If you notice on YouTube that CFB talkers like “the voice of college football” are posting update videos on the “Michigan scandal” daily. It’s clear everyone is riding the wave of attention and using Michigan’s name to get clicks and subscriptions.
October 30th, 2023 at 5:10 AM ^
Yes, the story has reached the meta phase where the story is itself the story. The original content is fairly lost. Publishing an article about a practice that is 1) completely legal and 2) already known to be done by other teams from earlier reporting on this same story (!) Demonstrates how this is running on fumes.
October 29th, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^
Lol even if this is 100% true (probably not), IT IS COMPLETELY ALLOWED UNDER THE RULES.
It ain’t cheating if the rules allow it. No matter whether it feels like it or not.
People out there acting like stealing signs isn’t the status quo in football…bruh why do you think NFL coaches cover their mouths when reading plays in???
October 29th, 2023 at 10:41 PM ^
Not if they were robot ballboys. Then it's electronic means, scUM fan!
October 29th, 2023 at 10:38 PM ^
"Multiple sources from one Big Ten school"
Oh, gee, let me guess...
October 29th, 2023 at 10:40 PM ^
"Then they all went back to trying to spell a four letter word with their arms."