lordstanley

Canadian Football League. Michigan Wolverines vs the Calgary Stampeders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Depends on how the shared signs data was sourced. If, say, an Illinois low level staffer or fan, with Illinois having just played Michigan, sent a low level staffer of another team info about Michigan’s signs, that info almost certainly would have been sourced in-person. Stalions only had friends go watch games. If other teams effectively had personnel from other teams do the in-person scouting, that’s arguably worse. Maybe they didn’t use electronic means. Or less likely, maybe they didn’t do in-person scouting, maybe their equal at another school said “in advance of our game against Michigan, we pored over publicly available game tape and were able to figure out enough about Michigan’s signs, and we can save you the trouble of having to do so before you play them next week”

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-ncaa-revealed-michigan-findings-to-big-ten-conference-mulling-jim-harbaugh-suspension-212327599.html The NCAA’s findings do not connect the in-person scouting and recording of opponents’ sidelines to Harbaugh, sources say, an absence of evidence essential to a potential lawsuit from the school and coach against the league.

Big 1, Little 13.

I'm glad it's an AP story, rather than Bacon or Webb. Surely not even ESPN can ignore and not pick it up.

"was his job to steal signs and he was given details from multiple league schools to compile a spreadsheet of play-calling signals used by Michigan last year" Thank God no Michigan player got injured because of this. We've been told the past 2 weeks that sign stealing is a dangerous practice that jeopardizes the health and safety of football players and the health and safety of guys on the Spartans.

Good thread on Mgoblog speculating whether CMU's head coach was bamboozled as well. The pic of Connor Stalions (we all know it's him) on the CMU sidelines really gave this story legs, put a face to the story. But if he was there to scout MSU's signs, why not do it from behind the MSU bench instead of from the opposite sideline. Unless he was there not to help Michigan, but to use his MSU data to help CMU. How does Central get out of this one?

I guess it will depend on whether the ADs and president believe Harbaugh truly was blindsided by the revelations. If so, they know it could happen to them just as easily, any investigator worth their salt should be able to come up with some dirt on any of the other 13 schools. If on the other hand they have evidence Harbaugh, or at least senior assistant coaches, knew about it and there is only implausible deniability, then they might be comfortable that their own programs are clean enough to avoid getting caught in a chaotic loop of investigations and counter-investigations.

I'm SHOCKED Brad Marchand would do that.

I would take Florida St (or Washington or Texas) as a semi final opponent in a heartbeat over Oregon, Alabama or an Ohio State rematch.

Crap, Vikings take lead with 21 seconds to do. Game would have been over if Dobbs hadn’t been able to scramble for a 1st down on 4th and 7 a few plays ago. The NFC North is still in play, this will be Minnesota’s 4th straight win.

Falcons take the lead right before the 2 minute warning.

Falcons offense has turned it over on two straight possessions, maybe a third depending on this fumble challenge. Vikings up by a field goal beginning the 4th quarter.

For those of hi who were stuck with the Boston feed, here is Mickey.

Huge win! The Wings' biggest of the year.

Why get in a scrap after the whistle with 20 seconds to go? Or even take that shot? Nothing good can come of that. Just win the faceoff and the game is effectively done.

Another Bruins penalty! 5 on 3.

Late penalty to Boston! Wings lead 5-4 with 90 seconds to go, going on the powerplay. Can they rag the puck to victory?

Wings take 5-3 lead. If they can hang on, this will turn heads around the league. This after it looked early as if they were going to be blown off the ice, when the Bruins made 2-0 look quick and easy.

No, even if Stalions was caught in the shower abusing a minor and an assistant walked in and saw it and told Harbaugh about it and Harbaugh did nothing, that’ wouldn’t yield the death penalty.

Ohio State down 9-7 at the half. If they lose, they’d have to win the Michigan game gain a playoff spot. There is a possible path into the playoff for OSU, again, if their only loss is to Michigan.

Even if Harbaugh didn’t know, there should be enough of a hierarchy and oversight that coaches below him knew. If Harbaugh doesn’t have that structure in place, that’s negligent. Like if assembly line workers were running an illegal betting ring out of the factory lunchroom. If there really had been rumours around the conference for two years about this, surely word got back to someone on the Michigan staff and at best they chose to look the other way. They could have nipped it in the bud and been able to control the narrative.

My dream is Michigan up 63-21 over OSU late, and on an OSU possession Michigan calls timeouts to get the ball back to hang 70 on them.

The best defense is a strong offense. Don't deny, own it! Goodbye, Mr. Brightside. Tomorrow night? 100,000 belting out this ... 99 out of 100 on the entertainment-meter.

A 2-0 loss after an ENG. Dropping points to so-so teams at home lately. So the Wings have come back down to earth. Will see how they handle November.