[Dellenger] NCAA says Ohio State's Ryan Day has no known ties to Michigan sign-stealing probe

I don’t believe anything this shithole organization says. 

Did the NCAA confirm that Ryan Day looks like the Gerber Baby when he washes off the shoe polish at night?

Sounds like the NCAA is trying to clean up the mess the B1G made/ is making.

Some people yesterday were saying how they expected this to end with a fizzle, not a bang.  This might be the start of the fizzle.

First Harbaugh not tied to Stalions, now Day not tied to investigation.  NCAA is now positioned to say, Stalions was a rogue actor and has no reason to further pursue Michigan or look into the source of the info.  To resolve Michigan needs to put additional measures into place to prevent a reoccurrence and pay a reasonably small level 2 violation and this all goes away.  This gets the spineless dipshit B1G commish off the hook too.

From "War Games"

Stephen Falken : The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except, I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.

David Lightman : What's that?

Stephen Falken : Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

Jennifer : What kind of a lesson is that?

Stephen Falken : Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?

Jennifer : Yeah, of course.

Stephen Falken : But you don't anymore.

Jennifer : No.

Stephen Falken : Why?

Jennifer : Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.

Stephen Falken : Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless!

Well maybe it wasn’t Day himself. But if it was ANYONE connected to OSU, well, he MUST have known and therefore MUST be indefinitely suspended immediately. That’s the standard we’re using right?

(In seriousness, no chance OSU wasn’t somehow involved, they seem to have been ringleading the back door “Michigan was cheating” stuff)

No “known” connection.  
 

And the NCAA has likely not even bothered to try and find out.  
 

It’s possible that Day and Ohio State are not the ones behind it (though unlikely given that Ohio State insiders had advance notice this was coming).  But this story isn’t really evidence of anything either way. 
 

Still a lot of facts to come out and hence why it’s important you do a full investigation before acting.

So either all the insiders that say we know and have evidence of who the PI firm is and how they're linked to OSU are either wrong, or the NCAA is in the dark, which is it?

I mean…”known”. Lots of wiggle in there.  Do they know who did hire a PI? It they don’t say “we know who it was and isnt Day” then they probably just know who it was yet

NCAA (possibly): "Let's make a deal. We'll say Jim is in the clear if we ignore Ryan Day's involvement."

Well I think that basically matches in tone and style what they said about Harbaugh. So, big ten, are you done yet?

It will come out eventually.  Too juicy for people to give up on it.

OK actually, new theory. It was Sparty:

1) they seem to have been out of the loop of the rampant sign-sharing operation going on, and therefore wouldn’t expect blowback.

2) OSU has actually been a lot quieter than they could be here. And they seem to have preferred to take a “back channel” path to revenge, via sharing their own scouting and tipping off TCU. 

3) Timing of the leak right before the MSU game lets them grandstand about player safety

4) Gets Tuck out of the news cycle.

Balanced against this is that OSU has more to gain directly, and the leaks seem to be coming via OSU connected outlets. But that could be arranged by the PI client pretty easily.