The SEC would have quashed this before it came to this.

At this point, all I care about is that they fight back (and seem to be doing so).

Fuck the big ten. Leave for the ACC immediately. Does anyone know what we would be liable for if we broke our contract with the BIG?

The SEC is rolling around on the ground laughing like a pack of delirious Hyenas that tapped into the dentists nitrous.

Even if I'm being as fair as possible to Tony Petitti, his lack of experience--both in this job and in college sports in general--are a major issue here. He seemingly has no ability to put the impassioned screeching of various coaches and ADs in context. Doesn't help that he has extensive background in Major League Baseball, either, since that's the most counterproductively pearl-clutching of the major pro sports leagues

Maybe Michigan should see if they need a new member.

I'm not even sure we're better at the sign stealing.

We just seem to be better at football. 

Pac-2 take over..... 

If we were good at sign stealing, this would have never came out. 

I had a similar thought when this all first came out. The SEC probably would've strangled this in the cradle. 

I also am increasingly favoring the argument that we should at least consider what leaving looks like. Can't get railroaded by your own conference, whether by fellow schools or conference admin, let alone both.

I hear you, but I will be shocked if it is only the “Little Twelve” behind this. Big Two Number Two is definitely in the middle of it.

I'm not sure. The whole point of this farce is to push Harbaugh out because Big 10 coaches are butthurt. If Harbaugh caused butthurt in the SEC, they might ban together to push him out. Nobody likes to be butthurt. 

The SEC is run by a guy who was a conference commissioner for a number of years before working for the SEC for over decade. You're talking about a guy with 20 years of experience in college athletics.

Pettiti and Warren? Not so much. But hey, look at those TV dollars rolling in for Purdue, Nebraska and bunch of other schools that most of America don't want on their TV screens...unless they're playing Michigan (or anOSU).

Here's who hates us.

OSU (obviously), Rutgers (Schiano was w/ Day and Urban), Maryland (our boy Gattis is their OC), Wisconsin (Fickell is an OSU guy), MSU (obviously), Illinois (Bert is an ass and stole our signs last year), Purdue (Walters is a Bert guy), PSU (Frames has to be pissed that he keeps losing to us).

That leaves IU, NW, Iowa, Minny, Nebraska without obvious hate, but if I'm a coach/ AD at one of those schools and I can take out one of the top 3 teams, I'm all for it.

To let it get this far and into public is an embarrassment to the conference.  The SEC would have at least handled it behind closed doors and on the football field like adults. Can we just all man up for a change?

This is a good point. For all the pseudo griping the SEC coaches do about each other they would never collude to take down Alabama or Georgia like this.

This is 100% true.  Sankey, and even Delaney, would never allow this.  The conference's role in situations like this is to allow only one concept to be visible: that all the kids are playing fair in the sandbox.  Fanning the flames of 13 kids simultaneously attacking one is not only a bad look, which will eventually be obvious, but is also counterproductive to the humungous tv deals in place.

The Big Ten is being absolutely idiotic, particularly in the face of glaring and widely distributed evidence that basically every team in the conference is pushing the limits of sportsmanship to decipher opponent signs.

I have to assume Ono told the Big 10 about the information Michigan had on the collusion regarding signs. Sankey would have got on his conference call with the coaches and ADs and asked "How are these cell phone recordings of your signs any more advantageous than this shared spreadsheet you're all contributing too and passing around?... We are done here".

I live in Florida Gator land and I just commented how the Sankey would never do this to Bama or Georgia. Down here it's still north v south.

The south stick together the north try to kill each other.

SEC is like a damn cult and the Bigten has always ate its own. NCAA tournament, for example, you’ll hear SEC SEC when their 9th placed team is playing. The Bigten is always hoping their team makes it past where the other bigten teams make it to. Their on going slogan is “it just means more” and I can’t think of a truer statement from the universities to the teams to the fans. When ESPN partnered up with the SEC it just made it that much worse.

The one question I’ve always had is why do people have it out for Michigan so much when Ohio St is just as successful of a program overall? The only thing I could figure out is that they operate like an SEC program. Notre Dame would be another example of historically successful program that would never get dragged through this level of shitstorm. 

Agree. Everyone has dirt there. They also don’t get investigated by media in the same way. They throw the occasional press conference brushback and that’s it.

Auburn beat everyone and won a national title with Cam Newton, of whom there was documented evidence *at the time* that his recruitment was a serious rules violation.  Was there a conference outcry? No.

We all know why. And so did they. 

oh, they've been squashing shit 10x this bad for decades.

Does every thought on this require a new post?

I can’t find worthy posts quickly enough before they get buried by these snowflakes. 

That's the difference between the SEC and the B1G. They have a sense of solidarity (which has some unsettling "war of northern aggression" and "the South will rise again" undertones, but that's a separate subject), whereas we all hate each other and wouldn't throw a fellow B1G member a hose if its house was on fire.

On the positive side, that's also what makes our rivalries so much more intense than theirs.

I'd rather not have the SEC on my side.

no, they wouldn't.