Jordan Acker to write a piece for this blog?

Submitted by SanDiegoWolverine on January 26th, 2024 at 2:34 PM

Given Jordan's previous connection to this blog he has to be referring to publishing something on this blog? This would be his biggest platform. What do you think this is all about?

https://twitter.com/JordanAckerMI/status/1750956191130484874

 

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Michael Scarn

January 26th, 2024 at 4:23 PM ^

Anyone who is "quite positive" about obtaining a TRO, particularly in this type of situation, hasn't filed for many TROs.

My sense is that the NCAA and Big Ten pressured Michigan with the intensity of the investigation that would unfold if Michigan didn't play ball with the suspension.  Threatened, implicitly or directly, to find as many process "crimes" as they could (like Partridge).

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Hensons Mobile…

January 26th, 2024 at 5:27 PM ^

Yeah, I'm a CR fan, but his take on the TRO is really strange to me. Between his on air Roundtable comments and then his posts in the Roundtable comment section, he's all but saying "The judge told me" or perhaps "the judge told the lawyers who told me."

And if that were true (which seems doubtful) it's obvious why CR can't say that, but why then walk up to the line and say it without saying it? It's not very useful and it is still implicating the people you're trying to protect.

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BKBlue94

January 26th, 2024 at 5:39 PM ^

Even if Craig did have inside info at one point that week, the facts changed just before the hearing when the Partridge stuff came out. What he was told at one point may no longer have been true when the hearing happened. He seems like a good guy, but I think anyone saying it was possible to know for sure how that would have turned out is fooling themselves 

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XM - Mt 1822

January 26th, 2024 at 5:47 PM ^

I have filed a number of TROs and Or defended them. I also have tremendous faith in what Craig says. I agree that there was a significant chance Michigan would’ve won/prevailed at that hearing. I think our decision makers ate a truckload of quiche, followed up with snifters of skim milk

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Michael Scarn

January 26th, 2024 at 6:15 PM ^

Reasonable minds can differ, but the framing of "quite positive" as Craig's view in the original post seems overly optimistic.  I've also dealt with a number of injunctions and TROs, and I wouldn't have been comfortable handicapping this at anything better than a 60-65% chance.  Now, that is not a reason to settle and drop the motion (which I still believe was driven by NCAA/Big Ten posturing about the way the investigation would play out), but personally think it is a stretch to say with confidence we would've gotten the order.  

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HollywoodHokeHogan

January 27th, 2024 at 10:19 AM ^

I don’t have faith in what Craig said.  If it was a true slam dunk the university would have won the motion for ex parte preliminary relief and Harbaugh would have been coaching for PSU.  Since the court declined to grant the injunction without a full hearing, and likelihood of success is one of the things the court considers in granting preliminary relief, I don’t know how you could be as confident as Craig is that the relief would ultimately be granted.  Craig was also confident that Michigan would win the motion for ex parte relief, fwiw.

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RAH

January 26th, 2024 at 8:46 PM ^

When I first heard that the Regents accepted the suspension I was surprised they caved to the BIG. But then at the same time I heard that Partridge was fired for interfering with witnesses.

So, I assumed that the BIG had been tipped off by the NCAA about the Partridge violation and offered not to ask for additional suspensions if Michigan agreed to accept the already imposed suspension. 

I didn't think that was an unreasonable action.

 

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mtzlblk

January 26th, 2024 at 6:27 PM ^

Wasn't the TRO pulled by Michigan because the judge indicated they would not make a summary/immediate judgment without hearing arguments from both sides?

That essentially meant it would take at least two weeks to get through the process at which point it is moot.

If the judge isn't going to decide before the Penn State or OSU game there's no point in going through all the motions to get a temporary restraining order for something that will have ended by the time the tro process concludes. 

Nobody threw in the towel FFS, though I know how much a group of people on here want to think that Ward himself went down and pulled the application at the courthouse personally.

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BlueHills

January 26th, 2024 at 5:46 PM ^

I don't know what Craig's practice specialty is. I think he's mistaken. At the very least, there were strong indications that the court would not grant the preliminary injunction, and rather than have its nose bloodied in court, the university decided not to move forward with the suit.

When a TRO is declined - clearly this was the case, since not granting it means it's declined - and a subsequent hearing is scheduled, it gives the parties a pretty good idea the court is unlikely to consider the situation an emergency, i.e., either no likelihood of success on the merits, or more likely in this case, no irreparable harm demonstrated.

Whether the court was right, wrong or indifferent, the simple fact is that it was not a slam dunk by any means, and that there was sufficient justification for the university's decision not to pursue the matter in court.

These things can always be second-guessed, of course. But whoever made this decision was not ignorant of the law, and not stupid, even if one disagrees with it.

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SDCran

January 26th, 2024 at 6:27 PM ^

I am no legal anything, but it seems somewhat obvious to me.   The judge scheduled the initial hearing a week out.  By the time that was going to be heard, the suspension was already 50-70% complete.   The university had 2 options, 1) drop the case and have everything with the BT be finished a week later, or 2) drag it out.   If you win, the full hearing would be months out and the story would continue (and you would likely lose the full hearing anyway), or you lose, look bad, and have the same result as 1).   

Don't make a 2 week story (or at least 2 more weeks) into a 6 month story.  Nobody wants to go with #1, but it was the better option.

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gbdub

January 27th, 2024 at 11:11 AM ^

Partridge’s misdeeds came to light and they worried things would get worse, even with a TRO. 

That explanation makes way the hell more sense then the University dumping a couple weeks worth of high class lawyer time into the case just to pull the rug from under Harbaugh at the last moment. 

I’m not sure why people are so reluctant to take the obvious explanation. 

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Grampy

January 26th, 2024 at 2:40 PM ^

I'm in the camp that this will be a big CYA screed.  I seriously doubt that Jordan is going to excoriate his fellow Regents or anyone else in the University Administration.  Maybe he'll rail about the B1G or NCAA, but I just don't see him shitting where he eats.

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ST3

January 26th, 2024 at 3:07 PM ^

I think he was a guest on an MGoPodcast not too long ago.

If you want to get your message out, there’s no one more trustworthy than Seth and Brian.

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WoodleyIsBeast

January 26th, 2024 at 3:19 PM ^

Came here to say something similar...

Jordan by all accounts loves Michigan and wants to see Michigan succeed, but he has inferred a ton of progress on Twitter that simply hasn't occurred for the two most important items:

1) Extending Harbaugh

2) Making up front NIL money happen so that the 50%+ of top 100 recruits in the nation actually consider Michigan

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LB

January 26th, 2024 at 3:19 PM ^

I don't care if JH had made up his mind to go to the NFL prior to spring camp. The process or lack thereof was not handled well. Put whatever spin on it you want, the Michigan Administration fumbled in the Red Zone.

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