Connor Stalions gives Dave Pornoy note about Ryan Day being suspended

Yeah. Who knows, this entire episode may have hardened the team and won because of it.  

Are we even sure at this point he broke any rules? The CMU thing, if confirmed, would qualify. However, giving people tickets for video isn't expressly forbidden. 

Like more UM coaches or more schools? Because I think more schools

Michigan have to distance themselves for obvious reasons, but w/o the PI/PR hit job, the whole thing is a big nothing-burger. I'm actually working hard to discipline my own heart/mind not to bear any ill will toward the guy that would only be there because of what *others* made use of him to do to Michigan.

That said, it would be a more hilarious prank if it was just Austin, Dave's assistant for all the pizza videos. There's only one way that I think "more Stalions press" is a good thing for us. And that's if there's a money trail of him being paid by CMU, or working for other teams, etc., displaying that he was basically just an independent contractor trying to sell a product—and a bad/stupid product at that. Even better if his other employers, once outed, talked about how unreliable his decoded signs actually ended up being.

Fair point, I don't have any evidence of him being good or bad, just giving him the benefit of the doubt because the staff, overall, is really good. Or, at least, seems really good from an outside perspective.

The argument you made (and I've read in other posts) that we won without him showing he had no benefit is a tough conclusion to draw. We won without Corum and Morris last year.

And also, assuming other teams we play have a sign-stealing guy, him not being on the sidelines puts us behind, unless another analyst or whatever steps into that role and taking some attention away from whatever else he was doing.

I don't think he was following orders.

I do think the entire program benefitted from his actions and that a modern-day college football program is such a detail-oriented, close-knit, industrial machine that it would be extremely unlikely to impossible that somehow none of the coaches know anything about this guy doing this.

That doesn't mean there is proof of that, though -- so the story is that -- yeah -- this one weird guy just had a wild obsession and did all of this in-person, vast-network stuff just for the benefit of him to get better at a sign-stealing job he was already very good to great at (just from watching legal film) so that he could promote himself even farther and move up the ranks even faster.

That's what I mean.

You are playing the conclusion game very well. We did so well at it before the suspension, didn't we?  If nothing else should have been learned, it's that this story is like an iceberg. Quit being the ship that runs into the iceberg.