Stalions suspended with pay for duration of investigation

Fuck Pete Thamel.

You win today! Well done!

chess not checkers 

I'll be in Seattle scouting our future playoff opponent Washington. 

Sporting a "Vast Network" shirt.

I am starting to agree that Warde should leave sooner rather than later.

Hey Warde, why not just shout to the world that you think UM is guilty 

It’s a medical mystery that Warde Manuel is able to stand upright without a spine.

Might?

Warde is not likely making these decisions in a vacuum, but in consultation with Jim, Ohno, and a lot of other people. People who reflexively call for his head every time that he doesn't get angry at the NCAA probably need to develop a more supple world view. I've had my issues with u policy off and on for decades, but believe me, he talks things through with a lot of people--and obtains some consensus--before acting, if he wants to keep his job.

Unfortunately, always leaping to play by the books and come clean in a world where no one is clean doesn't always redound to Michigan's credit; we've seen that enough. But if that is the stance, it's not because Warde chose it by himself.

There's no "might be" in this sentence. He's definitely one of the worst ADs in the country. He might be THE worst AD in the country.

I tend to think "with pay" means we don't think you are culpable and we are just being cautious and avoiding the PR hit. "Without pay" tends to mean we think you did it

It makes a lot of sense actually. Suspending him now means future opponents can’t whine about losing. If he continued to participate and was later found to have “cheated,” then all these wins would be tainted (according the our opponents at least). 

I mean, if they don't do anything now and then something does come out you just add more fuel to the fire and, potentially, expose UM to further punishment.  The fact he's being paid leads me to believe they are more supportive of him than, say, when MSU suspended Mel Tucker without pay after the Tracy situation came to light.  I believe UM also suspended Matt Weiss without pay before he was fired.

I know this place hates Warde Manuel with a passion but I think it's probably good he's in this job and not a bunch of people (not saying you OP) on this site because otherwise UM would be an absolute shitshow the minute anything bad happened.  

Because that's how it works. He's currently at the center of an on-going investigation. If this were happening at either of our rivals, and they didn't suspended the individual in question, we'd be calling that out.

This is standard operating procedure for ANY company worth its salt when an employee is under an investigation for behavior that, if confirmed, could lead to termination. 

Warde bends the knee to the false god of Public Relations. 
 

He does not ever play offense, only deflects from himself to make himself look good to the people he really wants to like him. None of those people are in the Michigan football program. And also, none of those people are ever going to like Warde Manuel either, they will just tolerate him. 

He’s a low energy Michigan employee, plain and simple 

At least wait for the NCAA to provide preliminary evidence.  It wouldn't be "with pay" if he admitted any wrongdoing, so Warde is basing that action solely on the accusation.

Because he only has one career outlet after he gets canned…working for the NCAA!

Michigan has to suspend Stalions.  If it turns out that he was guilty and Michigan was still using him, then Michigan has no "we were unaware" defense.

It doesn't imply anything about a belief in guilt or innocence.  It just avoids the worst-case scenario  where Michigan had reason to believe his work might be tainted by then knowingly used it anyway.

It's the NCAA- you are guilty until proven innocent.  And Warde agrees.

This kind of suspension with pay is par for the course wrt ongoing investigations into potential non-compliance. Not at all self-flagellation or admission of guilt.

By at least 40.  That decision has already been made.

I mean, we saw Warde bend over backward to not defend our people during the burger investigation, so this does not surprise me at all.

Even though it is with pay? Truly asking. Would think anything meaningful that NCAA could show would be grounds to just fire him now or suspend without pay. 

There are two ways this is going to go, they are not at all similar and I think odds sit at about 60/40 right now.

1. This guy is really good at analyzing film and identifying tendencies and there is absolutely nothing here.

2. They have a shit load on this, it was real, and this is going to be very bad.

Nothing about this has made any sense, but that is based on the assumptions that there is something but it is "not very bad."  If you remove those two assumptions you are left with the two possibilities above and it makes a lot more sense either way.

"With pay" is actually a good development IMO.