mgoblue78

January 10th, 2024 at 8:50 PM ^

Occam's Razor. Which is the simplest explanation?

1. Corum and Stallions established a money laundering scheme to finance and cover up the cellphones in the stadiums master espionage plan, and to accomplish it, registered a Wyoming LLC which never did any business as the conduit rather than just exchanging untraceable cash.

2. Stallions registered a Wyoming LLC fraudulently listing Corum as a member which never did any business, but somehow, suspiciously, not a single Wyoming prosecutor has found the time in their otherwise empty schedules to charge Stallions with a felony under state law and seek his extradition to stand trial.

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Brimley

January 11th, 2024 at 1:28 AM ^

You got me wondering so I went over to 11W, thinking I'd get some good shadenfreude. Wow-that board is a cesspool. A couple reasonable Michigan fans posted and were greeted by "you like your own farts" stuff (not exaggerating). The rest of the thread was "ChEaTeRz!!!" I feel like I wandered into a third grade classroom.

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Hensons Mobile…

January 10th, 2024 at 8:54 PM ^

I see two possibilities.

1) They really thought this was a big deal and that's why they ran to tell the Big Ten. Seeing how it played out (we crushed MSU and Purdue and then beat all the good teams after) they recognize now that, yeah, it didn't really matter much.

2) They never thought it was a big deal and weren't going to do anything. OSU got mad and started to leak it to media and before a story got out, the NCAA tried to get ahead of it by saying okay, okay, we're going to do an investigation. My guess is it's this one because this one is funnier.

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lhglrkwg

January 11th, 2024 at 6:36 AM ^

I think its a little of both. Ohio State and other unnamed Big Ten programs were throwing a fit. They didn't manage to get the NCAA to drop a preemptive hammer but they hoodwinked a gullible Tony Pettiti

I think most coaches know its BS which is why no one is saying anything other than behind anonymous quotes. Of course everyone is trying to steal signs and of course much worse things are happening out there, but Ryan Day is desperate and he rounded up his Big Ten sidekicks to throw a tantrum together

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Brimley

January 11th, 2024 at 1:34 AM ^

"Fair and square" is a pretty strong phrase. If they think they might have something, it'd be easier to say something without saying anything ("This is the night to celebrate these great student athletes. They played their hearts out and the only thing we should focus on is the hard work and teamwork both teams showed.")

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urbanachiever

January 10th, 2024 at 8:01 PM ^

I mean I can actually see the logic here.

 

I don't regret doing it because sitting on that information, given the comprehensiveness of it, I think we would have put everyone including Michigan in an awful place," Baker said Tuesday night while speaking to a small group of reporters at the NCAA Convention. "At the end of the day, no one believes at this point that Michigan didn't win the national title fair and square. So I think we did the right thing.

 

If allegations came out now, the outrage and claims of illegitimacy would be 100x louder and much harder to dispel.

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DelhiWolverine

January 11th, 2024 at 6:45 AM ^

I don’t disagree with this logic. But this, in my opinion, is one hell of a reframing of the motives for leaking this story in the first place. 
 

In reality, it’s far more likely that the PI Firm presented their findings to the NCAA and also told them that they would be sending the same info to ESPN. When this story broke, everyone’s tone, including the NCAA’s, was “THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF SPORT!”

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1VaBlue1

January 11th, 2024 at 7:57 AM ^

This has to be why Michigan dropped its lawsuits so suddenly.  The NCAA saw there was nothing, and pulled Michigan aside and said 'look, this will all be dropped quietly, and you'll be good in the end.  Deal with the B1G's bullshit and we'll cover you when the season's over'...

I have no doubt something happened in a backroom call after beating PSU like we did.  We were going to win in court (maybe not the TRO, but the suit definitely) - and then the real fight would begin.  Had we won in court, especially if Harbaugh got back on the field, I doubt the furor over signs would have ever ended.

This is all hindsight on my part (and for all of us) - I was a screamer about having dropped the lawsuits being the 'soft-as-usual' Michigan Way.  But this one time, of all the times before this, something happened behind the scenes that made it all work out.

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The Homie J

January 10th, 2024 at 8:15 PM ^

That's actually quite true, someone from Michigan twitter said that this news coming out when it did was actually the worst possible time for say, Ohio State, because it gave Michigan plenty of time to prove it on the field, repeatedly and decisively, to the point where even the great Nick Saban trotted off into the either unperturbed 

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