SIAP: NCAA President Speaks about Ongoing NCAA Investigation (Good News For Us)

Doesn't sound like much of an apology.  

Go fuck yourself NCAA.  Or keep fucking Pettiti & Day while Saban videos it.  Whatever gets you off.  We stopped giving a shit a while ago.

Tell me something I don't know!!!

What a day of football. Pete Carroll fired, Nick Saban retires, OSU and MSU fans in shambles over the NCAA president’s comments. 

As much as the NCAA sucks, this logic makes some sense

Says he was presented evidence by "a third party".

RCMB and 11W imploding in 3, 2, 1 . . .

I guess Chris Fowler was wrong. It wasn't "for you to decide."

Did the follow up question ask about revenue sharing for players?

I don’t see it as an olive branch. It sounds more like a rationalization for why the NCAA violated its own rules to share information with the Big Ten prior to concluding its investigation. He can now say the wins were achieved “fair and square“ because the allegations were BS to begin with.

Just made the mistake of reading the comments on The Athletic article about this. Oh my, people are just freaking delusional. They have so much riding on this whole "cheating" thing, they're still talking vacated wins. 

At the end of the day, no one believes at this point that Michigan didn't win the national title fair and square.

The Buckeyes just died a thousand deaths.

But but but but OSU has been guaranteeing this would all be vacated?!?!?

They probably realized if they continued down this road, things would eventually get real messy for a certain coach sitting on third base...

I notice we got no such statement from our conference. The NCAA is a bigger friend of the program than the Big Ten office.

Should have board rules.  

Maybe 1st thread to 50/100? posts wins?

This just makes Petitti’s suspension of Harbaugh look like such an over reach and overreaction. Not a good look for Pettiti.

O.K. But you still never made a spectacle of yourself when Terrell Pryor kept showing up to practices and team meetings in 8 different luxury cars.  Or when Nick Saban kept over-signing recruits to the point they moved into on campus housing and then were cut for a last minute 5 star pick up, or when Auburn literally bought Cam Newton....at least not to the level of pearl clutching they accused Michigan of this season.  

So why the inconsistency?  You still lost your shit when Harbaugh bought those cheeseburgers.  

I appreciate this only for the fact that it will torture OSU and MSU.  But the NCAA can go fuck themselves.  Not as hard as the rest of the Big Ten can go fuck themselves but I digress.  

I agree with Baker, he did the right thing by exposing it early. That gave Michigan the chance to prove it was all meaningless overblown bullshit.  

8-0 after sign-gate.

I shudder to think of the furor our program would have faced in the clown-court of public opinion if the **GASP** completely idiotic and unnecessary i-phone-recordings-for-pizza-money scheme was revealed after the season.

People would assume all the wins were because of Goober McStalions.

I’d like to shake this guy’s hand, but I can’t. My hand is in a cast with only the middle finger pointing up.

We love to hate on the NCAA and the B1G, but in hindsight, they did us an inadvertent favor.  Had they slow-played any of this, we might be in a much different spot right now.

Does that statement make any logical sense whatsoever?

“Won fair and square” and “helped legitimize” our championship seem reassuring and unambiguous.  Especially since he didn’t have to say anything there.  

Meanwhle, heads are indeed asploding at 11W.  Some are resigned angrily while a loud minority lunatic parsing fringe thinks Baker’s comments somehow indicate that we are getting the death penalty.  Oh, and the level-headed “you can give up hoping” comments are getting greyed out.  Crazy.  

LOLOLOLOL

How is it that the season is over but we’re still racking up W’s over our cro-magnon rivals??!??!