SIAP: NCAA President Speaks about Ongoing NCAA Investigation (Good News For Us)

Submitted by TruBluMich on January 10th, 2024 at 7:48 PM

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39282077/ncaa-president-says-michigan-earned-football-national-title-fair-square

"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."

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MacGyver

January 10th, 2024 at 8:08 PM ^

I guess some of the fighting sparties over on RCMB still want to die on this hill.
 

Charlie Baker should be fired within the hour. Unfuckingbelievable.

Corum was still ineligible, we’ll see what comes from that.

Not to mention, the data company has opened its own investigation into hacking.

Big Ten teams just need to let it be known that they won’t be playing Michigan until their titles are vacated and heavy sanctions are imposed.

they didn't even deserve the 1 seed with their crap schedule - cheating aside

Harbs convicted of cyber crimes would be just as good, in my book, as a vacated title.

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mGrowOld

January 10th, 2024 at 9:10 PM ^

RCMB's might be worse.  For the past four months they had absolutely convinced themselves that Conner Stallions and Conner alone was the reason they've been losing to us.  They absolutely KNEW that Harbaugh was behind all of this and that it probably continued even after Stallions left.  They felt confident that all our wins from 2021 on would be vacated and we'd be stripped of all three B1G Championships plus our national title would be vacated.

"Michigan won fair and square" drives a nail into their delusional balloon and now they are lost.  Completely, utterly lost.

And it's glorious.

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FrankMurphy

January 10th, 2024 at 9:15 PM ^

Total shitshow. They have convinced themselves that Connor Stalions' grainy smartphone videos of Purdue's sideline are the sole reason why Kyle McCord threw two interceptions or our defense sacked Jalen Milroe six times or we forced two Washington turnovers. The occasional sensible poster who points out how ridiculous that sounds is promptly downvoted to oblivion.

It makes for an entertaining read.

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sikety

January 10th, 2024 at 7:52 PM ^

I liked this quote as well:

 

“Part of the reason I thought it important to talk to the Big Ten and Michigan about this was it might affect the outcome of games,” he said. “I don’t believe at the end of the season, that it did.”

 

If the president of the NCAA thinks it didn’t affect the outcome of games, I can’t see any additional punishment coming. 

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Brodie

January 11th, 2024 at 9:31 AM ^

yeah idk

This is good news but it isn't the complete exoneration of the program some of our fans want it to be, it sounds like the investigation is still going slowly and we will be punished. I know the immediate concern is not vacating the natty, which is the headline here, but this stupid scandal is going to continue to be a millstone around our neck for some time at least

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alum96

January 10th, 2024 at 9:35 PM ^

Valenti and Rico are in a warm embrace now crying into each other's shoulders.  That was the entire show Tuesday - the entire show. 4 hours of hilarious that Michigan fans are happy because it's gone anyhow. Same guys who wanted Urban the cheater and said we want MSU cheating to win to compete with the big dogs since Mel tugged.  Rico never apologized for calling for Washington to run rampant on Michigan.  He just did his "mistakes happen" and giggled that this will all be erased anyhow.  Valenti fapped to that. 

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FB Dive

January 10th, 2024 at 7:52 PM ^

So the NCAA and their agents are on the record saying (1) advance scouting provides minimal competitive advantage and (2) our title was won fair and square.

The Buckeye fans hoping for vacated wins are going to be sorely disappointed.

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Double-D

January 10th, 2024 at 7:53 PM ^

Smells like an olive branch. He makes interesting points regarding getting this out the open prior to the CFP.

It would have sucked to have had Stalions doing this through to the end of the season and then dealing with all the haters. 

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BlueBayou

January 10th, 2024 at 9:24 PM ^

I’ve believed for a while the NCAA has thought this wasn’t much of anything and was mostly in damage control mode around public perception.  Remember, the NCAA announced on the same day that there was no evidence that Jim Harbaugh knew about the advanced scouting and that there were no known connections between Ryan Day and the investigative firm.  That always wreaked of a compromise for damage control reasons and for me started to validate that Day did in fact hire the investigators. The NCAA had no desire for this to blow up any bigger than it did.  I’m assuming they also worked with the Big Ten to suspend Harbaugh for The Game in order to placate OSU and basically put them in a “Put Up or Shut Up” scenario.  OSU lost, so now they have to shut up and the NCAA is moving forward by indicating it will be a non-issue for Michigan going forward.  At least that is my takeaway.

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