Catapult not under investigation by NCAA or law enforcement
“Over the past few days, there were false reports that Catapult is under investigation by the NCAA and law enforcement regarding our ThunderCloud video system,” the email said. “While we assisted a local law enforcement authority investigating an alleged unauthorized access into a customer's ThunderCloud system, this was not an investigation of Catapult. In conjunction with this investigation, Catapult proactively conducted a thorough security review of our ThunderCloud system and found no data breaches or unauthorized access to any customer's content. We are not under investigation by the NCAA or any law enforcement agency.”
https://www.si.com/college/2023/12/31/catapult-not-under-ncaa-investigation-video-footage-rose-bowl
December 31st, 2023 at 5:28 PM ^
There's nothing to report.
"Amid New Sign Stealing Accusations, Wolverines Embrace 'Michigan Versus Everybody'"
If that was your framing, how do you report this?
December 31st, 2023 at 5:36 PM ^
I mean catapult issuing this second statement. Only si is reporting it.
December 31st, 2023 at 5:43 PM ^
Catapult emailed their clients. They didn't release a new statement.
Also, as noted throughout this thread, there were no erroneous reports, despite Catapult falsely emailing that to their clients. There was nothing to correct. Catapult made a statement the other day that they were cooperating with investigations into unauthorized access to data. That's what was reported and that's still true.
December 31st, 2023 at 5:07 PM ^
Says Catapults lawyer...
December 31st, 2023 at 6:36 PM ^
I have been reliably told by Stalbombs and TOS that OSU is getting the death penalty and Catapult is going out of business.
December 31st, 2023 at 6:37 PM ^
Here’s where you see how a school that has a clue of how to treat the NCAA gets away with this. I should have asked Santa of fight back when I had the chance today.
December 31st, 2023 at 7:09 PM ^
Why would catapult be under NCAA investigation? This is a company not a school. They have no authority to do one.
December 31st, 2023 at 7:54 PM ^
Best I can think of, if there's an allegation that a school is getting other school's content, the NCAA would want to know a few things ...
a) what school is getting the materials
b) who at that school is getting the materials
c) who has that person shared the materials with
d) who knew about it
e) did anyone authorize it, or try to stop it
f) what schools' materials were compromised
December 31st, 2023 at 9:09 PM ^
Good points but Catapult is not under the NCAA and is under no obligation to answer any of those points. I wouldn't be surprised if another school is under an NCAA investigation for this but certainly not catapult.
December 31st, 2023 at 9:51 PM ^
Yeah, that's not really in dispute. They are cooperating with the NCAA's investigation though.
December 31st, 2023 at 7:51 PM ^
There's been nothing said to dispel the allegation that a trusted insider at Catapult was providing Ohio State access to others' content. There was no data breach, and no unauthorized access. But there could have been an employee, authorized to access content, accessing content and sending it other programs.
This statement is weak.
December 31st, 2023 at 8:32 PM ^
If someone at Ohio State was getting information from someone at Catapult, the person at Ohio State was essentially doing what Conor Stalions has been accused of doing, but worse. Even if the person at Catapult initiated the transaction, the Ohio State person willingly got information in a way that is against the rules -- of Catapult, as they are beholden to keep their clients' information confidential.
December 31st, 2023 at 8:23 PM ^
It makes sense that *Catapult* isn’t under investigation by the NCAA. Catapult probably isn't an NCAA member institution & thus not subject to any sort of direct regulation by the NCAA. Rather the NCAA would investigate a school that may have broken rules by improperly/illegally accessing someone else’s practice footage. Law enforcement would also be investigating the illegal activity allegedly committed by agents of a school (totally not Ohio State). So this is totally accurate semantics from Catapult.
December 31st, 2023 at 8:39 PM ^
How the f does the narrative change that fast and be accepted.