If the Freep guys had just held onto the story and michigan self reports violations... What do we get? Some secondary violations? Maybe a major violation.
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<br>The whole ordeal is and will always be bs and everyone at the Freep should be ashamed.

It is relieving to know that we can finally move on and just play.

Thank you Brian for all that you have done. It is so unfortunate that your opinion goes mostly unnoticed with the MSM but know that without someone like you, it would be very tough to survive as a Michigan fan.

Thank you Brian and MGoStaff.  I have appreciated your thorough reporting on this issue from day one.  It has been very enlightening.  Go MGoBlog!

"I'll get back to you with all speed"...priceless!

Go Blue!

"I'll get back to you with all speed"..priceless!

Go Blue!

Quick and efficient response by Brian, and one I welcome.  The reality of the situation never meshed with what the Freep wanted it to be, so they fabricated and exaggerated minor issues in the hope of driving traffic.  Of course, the end result was an erosion of their credibility and the sense amongst neutral readers that guys like Rosenberg and Snyder cannot be trusted wholly.  

Also, if you don't want to see a prime example of delusion, I would advise highly against visiting the Freep site right now.  Let's just say that the ASPCA might need to step in for the equine that is currently being pummeled well beyond its expiration on the front page.

A well written ending to this event.

On to the next.

Five years?   No freaking way does the Freep survive five years as a print publication with their existing staff.  I put the over/under at two years before they go the way of the AA News first and then slowly slide under the waves of total bankruptcy second.

And it is my fervent prayer that RR is here to wave them all goodbye when they go.

continue to dissipate.  Regardless of what RR has said, these things are a distraction and do affect recruiting, so the quicker they are resolved, the better, especially when the penalty almost exactly mirrors the self-imposed version.  Nothing to see here, move along.

Now about that winning thing...

Move along nothing to see here.

Since when has the freep ever let the facts get in the way of a good story?  People are outraged/slamming the freep?  Why?  This is exactly what they want.  Their editor obviously thinks sensationalism = ratings. 

Particularly regarding Sharp and Rosenberg, they don't care either.  Sharp has publicly said his readers are idiots and it's his job to keep it real.  That last part are his words.  Have you ever written those two ass clowns?  Got a reply?  And what did the reply say?  Sharp and Rosenberg don't give two shits about what we think about journalistic integrity; their job is to sell papers and generate page hits.  Period.  Again, both of them and their editor have made that crystal clear.

The best way to resolve this situation is to just ignore the freep.  I do now.  Move along nothing to see here.

Brian, does this mean you can now move out of your mom's basement and buy something to wear other than pajamas?

Agree wholeheartedly that Brian & the MGoCrew deserve credit for their excellent work.  Let's also hear it for the late Compliance blog that helped them out.

Every now and again, I go to the link below.  Brightens my day everytime.

Funny thing, I knew Rosenburg at Michigan.  Nice guy, really.

Also, I was at an event where I met a bunch of the Ufer family.  They all are not big fans of RR, but want to kick the shit out of Rosenburg if they see him in public.

 

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Well, as long as we're playing a little bit of deserved I-told-you-so, I seem to recall you needed to be convinced by people on the board (as well as compliance guy) that the 3rd year of probation was probably forthcoming too, which wasn't your "accepted as is" stance.

@vasityblue: Dave Brandon: Detailed and thorough investigation proves that Freep report was intentionally misleading.

Sic 'em, Section 1.

I have not posted anything about the freep for a very long time, but I keep having this sense that I still have something hanging over me right now.  What was it I forgot to do?  Oh yeah, shake my fist at the moon and yell:

Fuck you, you fucking assholes.  I will never read your piece of shit newspaper ever again.  I have told our front office to never purchase your goddamn parasitic rag and I always say something to patients along the lines of "Oh, I stopped reading that paper when it turned into a tabloid" every time I see one with a copy.  You are an abomination of our First Amendment and have turned yourselves into a laughing-stock.  Rosenberg and Sharp, you two are the most impressive personifications of a syphilitic chancre I could have ever imagined seeing.  I know you think you are cleaver, but you have both sold your souls for this and other "stories."  

Clears throat, starts to smile, internally deletes all memories/thoughts/criticisms of the Detroit Free Press.   No need to ever talk or think about that irrelevant media source again.

As much as I want to tell Rosenburg to eat a back of dicks, I think it's good to follow Brian's example by taking the high road, except that I really want Mike Rosenburg to eat a bag of dicks....

Won't the recruiters from rival schools warn potential big time recruits that Rich Rod still may not be at Michigan if he's found guilty of any wrong doing there! I would think so but it probably wouldn't work as much now that he has been found innocent in the Michigan incident, who knows? I'm just happy that this part is over and Freep can suck a big fat cock that just went anal, fuckers.... Go Blue!!!