"Ace Williams is a fraud."
I think most of us already have pegged Ace Williams as a "throw crap against the wall and see what sticks" type of rumor-mongerer, but nonetheless his rumors sometimes boil over to the MGoBoard and some people still praise him on twitter.
Fueled by his misrepresentation of the Kellen Jones story, his "reporting" of 24/7's work towards getting Michigan an actual 24/7 site which in turn halted the discussion, and his incorrect and unsourced rumors, it seems like someone ("ScoutExile") did some investigative reporting of his own, and found that -- in his own words -- "Ace Williams is a fraud." (i.e. there is NO Ace Williams -- he is just a ghost of another ex-blogger.)
The write-up at Midnight Maize is pretty thorough (and it's hilarious that he copied his twitter picture out of a hair-styling magazine).
http://midnightmaize.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-is-ace-williams.html
Discuss?
No shit, sherlock.
The dominoes begin to fall.
Soon we shall unmask this "Brian" who has existed for so long in the shadows of the blogosphere.
You mean we won't be getting Andrus Peat before the season starts?
Shucks.
So you mean Peyton Manning isn't a silent commit like Ace said!?!?!?1
Does this mean we DID land on the moon, or we DIDN'T land on the moon?
There is no moon?
Is that moon made of barbeque spare ribs?
Are we talking about the Moon, or the Smoon?
Wowwww, the smoon....
Never heard of it? I'm not surprised, only people in SNASA know of it. That's Secret NASA.
Is that like a "snuke in the snizz"?
There are so many good writers in the Michigan blogosphere like Brian, Magnus, The Other Brian and the good guys at Maize-n-Brew that write great Michigan content and work their tails off while doing it.
Magnus? Really?
"Man moves at hip well" is being a good writer? Good to know.
misrepresentation of the Kellen Jones story
Care to elaborate?
The article has a picture of one of Ace's tweets saying "...Kellen Jones was involved in some fisticuffs that led to his dismissal."
I think their reasoning is that i) it was not "fisticuffs", and ii) although it could be a slightly related reason, it should not be published and passed around without verification (those threads here on MGoBlog got deleted quickly, for example).
And all this time I thought his parents were stupid enough to name a kid "Ace..."
I found this quite entertaining. Especially the hair photo call out. lol
I soooooo thought that pic was real.
I knew his pic was familiar. What happened with Pipkens committing at the BBQ
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Nicely fisked. Love how the second post (by Anonymous, of course) says that MMs article is dumb and that Ace is the best michigan writer out there. No doubt Ace's momma is gonna get pissy.
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yes
was ever a +1 i woulda done it here.
Helix4 is wringing his hands, hatching his next plot to take over the world....
Im not saying he is some great insider but this piece is saying he is another writer and blogger other than his handle. So what? They point out that this other writer was in fact an insider in the program before RR so is it unfathomable that his connections are now back in order with the new regime? The Kellen Jones thing was accurate for the most part was it not? He also predicted J. Wilson to UM when that was very much undecided and K. Kalis was not at all a certainty when he predicted it. Yeah, the timing on some of it was off but generally speaking he has been money. Ill bet Pipkins is Blue before he leaves the state.
Now having said all that, I take him with a grain of salt but the writer of this piece is mad because Ace called them out as something less than real writers.
A more edited, less damning version of this blog post was accidentally released 5 days ago, but it was quickly taken down. Still, it was cached by google. This is why Ace was on twitter trying to discredit me and the other posters on 247sports last night.
FWIW: He has unfollowed the twitter account featured in my story.
In case anyone wondered my reasoning: I understand almost all of us knew that Ace was a fraud, but it remained unproven and there were Wolverines that believed this Gatsbian creation. I had to intervene and end Ace from masquerading as a legitimate source (at least in the minds of some Wolverine fans) after he started to: get prediction after prediction wrong, allude that certain recruits committed crimes that they did not commit, and interfere in the process of Michigan getting a team site on 247sports (with his "Media Edition" article). Ace had started to harm the fan base; therefore, the program.
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
Ace is a JOKE and so are you for defending him....
There may be no "Ace" but it sure sounds to me like there is a Mrs. Ace out there somewhere defending her boy's interweb honor.
That is probably "Ace" himself. I think if a couple of Michigan websites wanted to compare logged IPs of a couple of suspicious posters/commenters with relation to this story, we'd see an eklund-type level of duplicity going on.
And in other news, Denard is fast!
in this fight. Confirming he was in fact an insider in the program pre RR seemed to give him more credibility in my mind. I for one hope he is legit as I want all the information I can get.
Ace's connection to the program was a Michigan student that covered the team for CSTV from 2005-2006, but this student graduated in 2006 (hence Ace's claim that he was an "insider" during the Carr years).
I chose not to release a significant portion of evidence to protect innocent parties and not reveal Ace's real-life identity.
The only innocent parties involved in the article were those that Ace retweeted or followed, which was done to disconnect them from being mistakenly identified as Ace Williams.
Are more "insider" than that.
Look Mrs. Williams, your son was not connected and is not connected now.
lead me to the Everything Michigan And More site. *Which by the way, I've already been on, because I have a friend who was asked to write for them. He's a good guy* However, I noticed on that site, which is run by RepoMan, or Matt (one of the 7 ppl Ace follows on Twitter), that one of his writers, Scott, posted the exact same BBQ picture that TomVH posted last night claiming that "Allen Gant gave permission personally to our site to post his BBQ picture so please don't steal it!"
The plot thickens. DUN DUN DUNN
Toss the ringer dude.
I have been trolling him all day long and this dude is a damn joke!
Saying you're trolling then calling someone else a joke is about as ironic as you can get.
I believe that the guy tweeting with helix4 is a friend of mine. I'm trying to see what I can find out.
Helix4 is not the real twitter account involved. We decided to change it, so we wouldn't compromise Ace's real-life identity.
I think everyone wants to see him outed and his real name released. I think ScoutExile knows with near-certainty who it is, but isn't releasing it for legal reasons.
Get your pitchforks and torches here! We march on the castle tonight!
So, Ace Williams works at White Castle?
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August 1st, 2011 at 10:41 PM ^
Somebody wasn't paying attention when they sent out that email about contacting recruits on social network sites.
I have never even heard of this guy before today, really
How did I get so out of touch. Oh, its summer and I've been working on my tan.
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:18 AM ^
How's it working out for you? I devoted this summer to getting a six pack and increasing my booze tolerance. Only successful on one front so far.