Per Warde Manuel... Big Ten Reprimand Due to Fan Touching Mel Tucker
Per Warde...
“We accept the Big Ten Conference’s findings in full. The conference office’s reprimand of U-M was in response to a fan making physical contact with the MSU coach – which is wholly unacceptable. The offender was quickly identified and swiftly ejected from the Stadium by our Event Team. In addition, to reduce the possibility of future incidents, we proactively implemented changes ahead of our final home game by increasing security personnel in areas around the playing surface. Security and procedural reviews will remain a constant focal point of future event planning and reviews."
https://www.on3.com/teams/michigan-wolverines/news/warde-manuel-on-big-ten-discipline-from-michign-msu-tunnel-fallout/
November 29th, 2022 at 11:46 AM ^
That should satisfy Tom Izzo's concerns...
November 29th, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
don't know why he cares. he never has to go in the tunnel and no one wants to touch him anyways
November 29th, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
My first thought after reading this was also about Izzo.
But my thought was that the mature response of the Michigan AD would be useful teaching material for instructing the puerile Izzo and others like him.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
Well, of course. Trolls don't go in tunnels but under bridges.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:21 PM ^
Are bridges and tunnels topographically distinct? We need a mathematics undergrad to help here.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:27 PM ^
good point. could depend on how wide the bridge is? mgoengineers need to be on this.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:12 PM ^
Gabe Brown wishes he didn't have to go through this tunnel:
November 29th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
Is it physically possible for a fan in the stands to reach down far enough to get to Izzo’s head?
November 29th, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
Only Tacopants would be able to reach that far.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
I'm guessing it comes from the deep seated insecurity he has about frequently getting patted on the head as a 4 foot tall adult who behaves like a toddler.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
Even if someone wanted to touch him, they wouldn't be able to reach him from the seats...
November 29th, 2022 at 12:18 PM ^
He’s too short anyway. No fan could reach down that low to touch his greasy head.
edit: I see I’m late with my short jokes.
also apologies to all the short kings of mgoblog.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:25 PM ^
don't know why he cares. he never has to go in the tunnel and no one wants to touch him anyways
Thought he liked weird guys?
November 29th, 2022 at 12:54 PM ^
After reading what all happened, I was initially upset that some fan would want to do what they did. There is no reason to be doing that. I am glad that Ward accepted the reprimand and we can move on, make sure you and your possibly drunk fans don't attempt this going forward.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:39 PM ^
Strange that Izzo seems so personally offended when there is no way that a fan could have reached down far enough to touch him...
November 29th, 2022 at 11:47 AM ^
Free the Tunnel 8! Harbaugh is a master manipulator, and he planned this entire thing! We need a PR war with scUM!
November 29th, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
Have you spent any time on RCMB lately because God help me, I have. There I have learned that they honestly and truly believe the following:
1. The Michigan players started the whole thing and the Spartan 8 were just responding to being provoked by them.
2. That actual film of the Michigan players starting the altercation exists but a consortium of pro-Michigan media and police officials have successfully buried it.
3. That charges were going to be filed against the Michigan instigators but the "blue wall" managed to have that suppressed.
4. That it was nothing more than a minor scuffle between two players and that the tough MSU player got the better of it so the soft Michigan player whined about losing.
There's actually more even insane shit than this on their board but those four talking points have been universally accepted as truth by everyone there or at least nobody there has the balls to challenge it publicly.
November 29th, 2022 at 11:59 AM ^
A little bit, MGrow - I felt my IQ points dropping rapidly so I had to leave quickly.
The tinfoils hats are in full force over there, it's actually really incredible.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:03 PM ^
For the both of you...
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
– Nietzsche
November 29th, 2022 at 12:36 PM ^
Damn, son. That's deep. +1
November 29th, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
This sounds familiar
November 29th, 2022 at 12:10 PM ^
I am growing more and more despondent about society MGrow. What is happening in RCMB is just a barely extreme version of what passes for discourse nowadays. I guess hiding behind a handle and an avatar absolves one for any responsibility to truth and decency.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^
When reality isn't what you'd like, just make up your own!
November 29th, 2022 at 12:18 PM ^
The secret film of Michigan players starting the fight is now securely locked in an Area 51 vault right next to the moon landing outtakes.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:32 PM ^
And the Kennedy files. And Jimmy Hofa's last resting place. With the Arc. and a slab of Kryptonite.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
Speaking of Hoffa...
November 29th, 2022 at 1:37 PM ^
Damn!
November 29th, 2022 at 12:20 PM ^
"or at least nobody there has the balls to challenge it publicly"
Well, no one wants the dreaded "Walvie" tag, which, in addition to of course Michigan fans, is also what they hilariously call each other when even obvious longtime Sparty slappies say something insufficiently delusional and too grounded in reality and sanity for that batshit, mouth-frothing fever swamp.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:34 PM ^
They also think MSU and UM should be the premier rivalry of the B10 lol.
November 29th, 2022 at 1:01 PM ^
I want them stripped of rivalry status yesterday. We no longer play them every year as if it's something special. They can get in line and play us every third year like everyone else.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:48 PM ^
Something about Jay Harbaughs laptop and our centers true nation of origin?
/s
November 29th, 2022 at 1:28 PM ^
They also believe a cabal of pedophiles runs the world, because obviously. Stupidity + inferiority + insularity + perceived aggrievance = a dangerous cocktail of madness.
November 29th, 2022 at 2:51 PM ^
Michigan used space lasers to erase the REAL footage!!
November 29th, 2022 at 12:06 PM ^
Waiting for the Zapruder Film to make an appearance.
November 29th, 2022 at 11:48 AM ^
That's what accountability sounds like. One would hope Izzo takes some notes, even though it's clearly not going to happen.
November 29th, 2022 at 11:52 AM ^
Baby steps.
We need Izzo to not enable rapists...
...THEN maybe we can cogently engage him on the tunnel.
November 29th, 2022 at 11:59 AM ^
Izzo could also make like Coach K and just retire.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:22 PM ^
Izzo is choosing the "go down in flames" path to being fired....uh...retirement.
It takes a little longer and provides for some uncomfortable moments, but the results are the same.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:00 PM ^
One of those rapists made friends with a sick kid; therefore, if you call out Izzo, you hate the troops. I didn't make the rules.
November 30th, 2022 at 11:13 AM ^
I'm a vet. I get a pass.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:02 PM ^
What frustrates me on this Izzo crap is that the talk is all about the lack of security. However, UM did indeed increase security. You can see security personnel in most of the video versions of the assaults.
In one version of the McBurrows assault you can see a Michigan State Trooper standing a foot away but does nothing to intervene. If a Michigan State Trooper isn't going to intervene why should anyone expect security personnel to do so??
November 30th, 2022 at 11:14 AM ^
However, UM did indeed increase security.
Yeah, I saw a State Trooper with his thumb up his ass watching a good beat down.
November 29th, 2022 at 11:49 AM ^
It seems a bit misleading for the Big Ten to write the statement the way they did. The fan touching Mel should be viewed as a completely separate incident.
Instead, it gives the impression that somehow Michigan bears responsibility for the tunnel assault, which is false.
November 29th, 2022 at 11:54 AM ^
Michigan is wholly responsible for their players skipping towards the tunnel.
- RCMB
November 29th, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
And Michigan’s tunnel is suddenly the biggest villain in college football.
Did you hear Todd Blackledge during the Illinois game? Bert was complaining that Michigan was taking too long to go out for the third quarter so Blackledge actually said, “Michigan’s going to need to address this problem with the tunnel.”
Get the hell over yourself. 95 years of nothing and suddenly the tunnel is this huge problem.
Penn State could try to not act like preschoolers, MSU could try not to act like a bunch of thugs and Bert can wait another 5 minutes. Address that.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
Preach it brother!
All this deflection bullshit is maddening.
November 29th, 2022 at 4:13 PM ^
"Penn State could try to not act like preschoolers." Hey, lay off the preschoolers.
PSU may be apprentices of immaturity but certain MSUers are masters. At the end of the day immaturity is MSU's one shining, uh, virtue. Tom Izzo blaming his players and taking no personal responsibility for losses, Mark Dantonio (a football coach) getting into a tizzy because Mike Hart (a freaking student) called him something mean, players committing assault over nothing, and an administration that's silent when egregious/disgusting behavior occurs but has a screaming tantrum every time minor "incidents" happen.
Preschoolers? I know infants that are more mature than MSU and PSU. And if I have to choose whose shit to have to handle, I'll take the infant's any day.
November 30th, 2022 at 11:14 AM ^
"Penn State could try to not act like preschoolers." Hey, lay off the preschoolers.
Hmmmm.
November 29th, 2022 at 12:09 PM ^
I noted that they were skipping in the tunnel in the toilet bowl. Clearly they didn't learn their lesson!