Best piece yet wrt Sign Stealing investigation

I don’t think it’s unhealthy to occasionally read up on the news. It’s when you are checking things multiple times an hour and getting roped into discussions when it can mess with you. 
 

I know this is your field so you know 1000x more than I do on the matter but it seems pretty logical and even healthy to check on news that’s important to you on occasion. Just not obsessively and not on social media

Or "with respect to"

You use that time to wash your damn hands.

Cool people still use Re:

Bullshit. It's for lazy asses that can post two paragraphs in full with one abbreviation that makes no sense or best case ambiguous. That's on him. 

This was never about justice and fair play.  They all pay lip service to fair play, but what they really want is vengeance.  A pound of flesh.  Don't let due process ever get in the way of their feelings.

It is actually very alarming how many people value expediency over due process.  Getting to the right answer is more important that getting to a quick or easy answer, but you would never know it to listen to the media on this issue.  But you can bet that when it comes to their careers and lives, all of Michigan's detractors would sing a different tune.

Assuming that OSU hired a PI firm to investigate this, and then to keep this on the top of the sports pages for weeks by dropping nuggets to different reporters each day,* then that's a new level in the rivalry but not illegal, and is complicated by the fact that Michigan is in fact, guilty.** 

It's a cheap shot, but we left ourselves open to it.

* For the record, I absolutely do assume this.

** To be clear, we're guilty at the Stalions level, assuming we don't escape on some loophole.  (And again, I assume we won't.)  It remains to be seen how strong our compliance programs were and if anybody else knew.

How about a call to AD behind the scenes?

That would imply that they're genuinely concerned about this stuff.  That's highly doubtful.  The NCAA itself said in-person scouting offers only "minimal competitive advantage."

They're just trying to knock us down a peg, and since they haven't been able to do so on the field this apparently is Plan B.

Fair enough. I read that last paragraph with this sentence still in mind:

It seems at this point—although some online lawyers might disagree—that Michigan broke an NCAA rule, and enjoyed at least some part of its recent success as a result.

I've never been a fan of memoirs, so maybe this is just an aside to the navel-gazing.

Yeah who knows who it is. But more than Thamel is running with it now. I agree with most everyone that the Big Ten and the Pettiti dont want to do anything till the investigation concludes. And if this is just 3 schools then nothing will happen. But yeah I worry about if 13 AD's don't let this go for the next 4 weeks what happens. 

The athletic too. I mean who knows but are other coaches going to go to bat for Harbaugh? And how long is the commisioner going to keep saying "just wait for the investigation." Like in the grand scheme its better money wise for Michigan to be good, but these coaches on the hot seat don't give a damn if their school gets $500M or $1B in TV revenue. They care about getting off the hot seat by putting someone else on it.