Athletic Department Buries "James Yoder"/"Ace Williams"

You read the letter and you don't understand it?  It's about as straightforward as you can get in written language.  Of course, it's also possible that I'm misunderstanding what you're misunderstanding.

James Yoder is a moron who likes to post on twitter as though he's an insider with knowledge about Michigan's program despite the fact that he knows nothing and probably lives on his mom's couch (she doesn't like him enough to give him the basement).  Michigan's AD just called Fake News on him.

The guy has a bad website that is a mix of paywalled stuff from other sites and total fabricated slander to get clicks. Bullshit artist with no concern for the players he writes fan fiction about. 

He's started maybe half (more?) of the most offensive patently false rumors that end up on this board, beginning with saying the team was high for The Horror. 

It looks like "James Yoder" AKA "Ace Williams" is the "brains" behind Chat Sports. Brian has complained about both Chat Sports and "Ace Williams" for a few years now.

So it's a troll with a web site.

Try not being Amish. Perhaps you would be hip to how the internet works.

A few days ago he told a black man on twitter to shine his shoes. But, now I cant find the tweet. 

No idea whether this was it, but a couple of days ago he tweeted that Kalil Branham had decomittted. He retracted it and blamed his source, an anonymous poster on MGoBlog, which he used an insulting name for.

He's done plenty to raise their ire. My guess is that he's been trying to contact players, recruits or their families and there's been some confusion among them about who he is.

Just off the top of my head and from this season, he lied about Branham decommitting, he got into an argument with Wangler and basically said he sucks and doesn’t belong on the team, then claimed to have had an interview with Gary’s mom and slandered her and Gary (she came out and said she’s never spoken to him). 

In between all of this he’s stolen unmeasurable amounts of paywalled information and shared it with the public and passed it along as his own information and claims to be “the most well-connected insider.” 

Two coaching hires that look great, basketball win, and the AD green lights Yoder to the Michigan internet. 

What an awesome end to the week!

Why is there no drinking thread in his honor?

Was he first or did you just hear it from him first? There were rumors of Walker leaving for at least a year.

He throws a ton of stuff out, especially where there are rumors and says he has sources. He’s missed a ton if you care to track it (don’t). 

Blind squirrel, he uses the first hint of any rumor (even if it’s from a random board poster) and pitches it as inisider info. Some rumors do have truth to them (Aubrey Solomon) but some are totally garbage and essentially libel.

Shark - he preys on people like you.

I’ve got some Ocean front property just outside AA.

I mean those two instances are fairly easy to predict.... Walker missed his entire first year due to academic and disciplinary issues. It wasn’t a stretch to predict he was gone.

Washington was an up and coming young coach, strong recruiter, from Columbus with ties to OSU. Again, not a stretch to predict his departure. 

FACK!!!

Based on the Cauldron/Chatsports article I linked, his job is fraud. He was pretty clearly defrauding people as described in that article. The article says that Chatsports has "investors," so perhaps there's some income supporting him, or there was back then. But who knows. 

There are plenty of fans, like a guy I work with and a good friend of mine who follows anything Michigan, who are oblivious to who he actually is. They just read and share his articles. However he comes up with the content, hes selling ads and clicks the same way everybody else does. I'm sure he makes (made) a living. Our fanbase is vast and everybody wants that insider scoop. 

Do you have a link to that article?