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The article is written by an “all Michigan” sportswriter probably still looking for his big break.
Ex-college football staffer shared docs with Michigan, showing Big Ten team had Wolverines' signs
A former college football staffer shared documents with Michigan that showed a Big Ten opponent had spreadsheets of the Wolverines’ signs last year obtained before his team played Michigan.apnews.com
All of these articles and leaks by Michigan about how all the other schools have the signs doesn’t actually help them.
No wonder Frost was so paranoid about leaked game plans and a mole on the staff. Unfortunately for him he was an equal opportunity loser and couldn’t beat Cockeye, MSU, or Troy even if they didn’t have the signs
Michigan didn't send anyone on their staff to the games in person, instead, they exploited the loophole and had random people attend the game so they can deny all plausibility. Where they messed up was by using Venmo and having the staffer buy the tickets vice having a random fan by the tickets and just buy the phone footage. I see Harbaugh denying any wrongdoing and that he was unaware what Stallions was doing and say that he thought that he was good at his job and didn't ask any questions about how he was so accurate about the information he was getting. At the end of the day, this is like NASCAR, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. For Michigan, they exploited the gray area and got caught. Now, it's up to the BIG and NCAA if they are willing to punish a Blue Blood or let it slide since it will no longer be an issue next season.
That's the thing though. Harbaugh is in charge of everyone on his staff and whatever they do. Institutional Control is what the NCAA refers to on that one.
Stallions is a nut job just like that Genetics56 dude is and wouldn't be surprised that he has a Nebraska manifesto like Stallions did for Michigan. I still feel that Stallions will continue to say that he acted alone and will die on his sword just to protect Harbaugh. I hope the NCAA and BIG suspends the whole Michigan coaching staff and give them a few years no show clause. I know they don't want to hurt the student athletes, but it's obvious the athletes knew what was going on as well. I hope they go through and take a deep look into Ohio State as well since they are just as dirty.
I doubt they’ll suspend the entire staff but Genetics is who I was thinking of with this entire thing. Stallions is who Genetics wishes he was.
If Harbaugh never coached another game in college football, I would be fine with that. The guy doesn’t need to cheat and yet he does. Thats what makes him so despicable.
Harbaugh is such a weird guy ever since he started coaching in the NFL and more so at Michigan. I’d love to see Michigan being mediocre again after all of this.
They'll definitely take a big step back. It is very rare that you replace a great coach with an equally great one. Harbaugh is like TO, Saban, Meyer, etc in that he's a taskmaster. You lose a detail oriented guy like that and things start to slip. Maybe not unravel to the point of 5-7, but a Solich-ish era where you're good/very good but not great.
Can the playoff committee take all this outside stuff into consideration?
Yeah it’s a tough call. On the one hand, you do nothing until season ends and Michigan potentially wins the national championship. Can you imagine the outrage? It would extend well beyond the Big Ten.
More than likely, they will. If B1G suspends JH and/or penalize Michigan somehow, then that will be considered. If the playoff committee believes if there is a chance that Michigan will have to forfeit this year and last year's wins, then yeah, they could easily say no Playoff invite.
In this case, though, his team was trending down. His employer renegotiated his contract to pay him less and make it easier to fire him.
According to this, they're not considering the outside stuff and leaving it for the NCAA:
They say that, but behind closed doors, I bet they're doing what they can to avoid that possibility.
The selection committee went on record to say that this is an NCAA thing. Basically seemed to be washing their hands of any responsibility.
