Blinkin

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:02 PM ^

He's free to leave the conference. His school does not meaningfully contribute to the TV deals driving realignment. He's a have not bitching about a have, and that's a bad place to start. It's worse when you're morally and factually in the wrong to boot. 

ST3

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:53 PM ^

Eventually, the Big Ten is going to realize it has a Washington but no Washington State, an Oregon but no Oregon State, an Iowa but no Iowa State, and so on, and then they will fix the glitch. MSU will stop getting their paycheck so it will just work itself out naturally.

truferblue22

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:57 PM ^

There's a wonderful channel on YouTube that takes the highlights of Michigan's games and uses the away teams radio calls on them. It's fantastic schadenfreude. Upon watching the msu game, their announcer (Blaha) complained during the game about the lack of security last year. He was very pointed in cutting off his OWN sideline reporter to make sure he got his two cents in that it was Michigan's fault. They all think like this. 

 

Same thing with Tucker....just read the comments on The Athletic "the actions of one man do not represent the entire university" was used repeatedly. They're BEYOND delusional. 

McSomething

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:05 PM ^

It was all about player safety. Now remind me which program had a player ejected for launching themselves forward head first at a defenseless player on the ground?

LB

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:05 PM ^

ROFL - he's playing to his audience. We've determined that sign-stealing is permissible, what is at question is the way it was done. To compare that to an assault takes a special kind of malevolent stupidity. 

CompleteLunacy

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:06 PM ^

Ok cool. Hook ‘em.

I mean this is seriously unhinged. Yes let’s compare a guy buying tickets for others to help him scout to a group of student athletes for your university LITERALLY ASSAULTING OPPOSING PLAYERS FOR NO REASON. One using his helmet as a weapon.

Man, you’d think Connor Stalions murdered a guy with the hyperbole going around here. Michigan needs to take a long hard look at leaving the conference if this is how everyone else is going to treat them in the midst of an ongoing investigation. 

Hail to the Vi…

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:25 PM ^

A presentation of the circumstances:

Michigan: employed an entry-level staff analyst that - under his own admission - used a network of friends/professional contacts to electronically record contests between future opponents [against the rules], in an effort to steal said opponent's play signs during their contest against Michigan [not against the rules] on his own accord.

Michigan State: members of their team were recorded on video unprovokingly swinging helmets, punching, kicking and stomping on Michigan players [against the rules, against the law] as words were exchanged at the end of last year's game versus Michigan.

If Haller would like to argue both discretions are of equal egregiousness, and thus, should demand a similar recourse; then he may as well argue jaywalking is of equal egregiousness as reckless drunk driving. Anyone in an influential administrative position making this kind argument in good faith is demonstrating they do not have the critical reasoning skills to hold the position in the first place.

I think we all know (or should I say, assume) Haller is not making this argument in good faith. So he may not be stupid, just morally bankrupt. But it has to be at least one of the two. 

CFraser

November 3rd, 2023 at 8:26 PM ^

They didn’t really need to investigate the tunnel thing because there were multiple videos of your players jumping Michigan players. Like 4. So there’s your investigation. They were also charged criminally. But yea, let’s compare it. JFC