Eleven Warriors can read The Signs…

True to OSU intellectual form: "gorilla warfare", and not likely an intentional mistake.  

Feel like this story nailed it. I've been thinking about how much crazy stuff has happened with Michigan football the past few years from Gattis and Weiss to Burger gate and now Special Ops Stalions.

Thanks 11warriors for providing some clarity. Harbaugh & company decided a couple years ago they were sick of losing to the bucknuts and were ready to get serious. This is college football and the crazy crap is the cost of being a powerhouse. If anything, we can feel good about gun possession being the most serious legal charge, very tame compared to what's happened on other campuses.

If you're enjoying this era of Michigan football, the proper response to the "spying scandal" is a shoulder shrug. They're not canceling the Mich-OSU state game. Life will go on

Is there any teeth to this story?

Because he used Venmo instead of a credit card?

That is actually a pretty good take from them.

Michigan has always prided itself on following the rules, even the "55 mph" rules that nobody cares about, that are never adhered to and never enforced.

Everyone else is blissfully driving 95 mph while the cops eat donuts, while we insist on going 55 mph because THAT'S THE RULE.

But then we don't actually drive 55 mph.  We drive 65 mph.  We sort of half-assed cheat but not fully cheat so we can claim a moral high ground . . . while still doing some cheating.

People think the gang up on Michigan is just because we are good now or Harbaugh annoys them.  That's all true, but the main reason is that Michigan has always been so sanctimonious in an environment - big time college football - that is down-in-the-dirt and always has been. 

Nobody is at all outraged by the silly infractions we have committed.  They commit them too.  They just want to point and laugh and say: "Stop preaching, you're one of us too." 

There is some truth in that.  For the last 20 years we've been desperate for their success on the football field, and they have always been bothered by the fact that Michigan is the better school academically.

I am having a hard time believing that OSU will suspend its coach 3 games for buying a burger. 

Don't walk through any tunnels bro.

There's the real difference between us. Their fans are dumb as dirt.

Ours is not.

Only two things really concern me about OSU this year:

1) How much better is their defense actually? Seems pretty damn good but I don’t know yet if we know exactly how good. The offenses they’ve played have ranged anywhere from terrible to “ehhh they’re okay.” To be fair, same can be asked if Michigan given the level of competition. 

2) Marvin Harrison Jr. Guy is a freak of  nature and could probably beat just about any team in the country by himself if he has a Heisman-worthy day. He’s going to catch at least 1-2 balls against Michigan that will make us all want to throw shit at our TV and vomit with rage, but I hope Michigan can bring the kind of gameplan to at least make sure that’s not the difference in the game. Make literally anyone else beat you. OSU has some damn good receivers but no one close to MHJ. 

They will be too busy talking about a coaching search. There will be many posts talking about how Day purposely lost to pave the way for Urb's to come back.

I decided that it was ok for my account to be nuked over there through downvotes, so I posted the following, which hits directly on your point about all of this being based upon their fear of what is coming up.  They know they try to steal signals.  They know they cheat too.  They just can't live with losing for the last two years.

[OSU Commenter]  This has been better than Christmas. More and more coming out, the denial, the hypocrisy... everything. Reveling in your hated rivals shit storm. Makes college sports fandom worth it. 

It's good to see OSU fans finally happy.  It's been a bleak 3 years, hasn't it?  Honestly, I'll admit I didn't realize just how bleak.  Perhaps because you've been on top for so long, the adjustment to losing, repeatedly, is just too much. 

But no longer!.  Now it all makes sense!  Now there's an explanation!  Finally, you have a plausible excuse for dropping two games to the one team on the planet that you just can't stand losing to.  Michigan cheats!  My team isn't inferior!  They cheated!  Your wildest hope, your most fervent prayer has been answered!  Now your team doesn't have to look in the mirror and feel inadequate.  Now you as fans don't have to have your precious feelings hurt by acknowledging that another team out-worked you two years in a row.  Now you don't have to blame it on the flu, the weather, the sunshine, five measly plays, that threatened your precious perch upon the throne of the B1G.  

Now you have an excuse for when it happens again.  Snuggle up in your self-righteousness.  November is cold in Ann Arbor.

R.I.P. Harambe

They did. Rational posters were even more disgusted by the beatdown, while the mutton chops posters are convinced that you couldn’t change all the signs that fast, and that we still cheated. I don’t care If urban stole our entire playbook back n the day. It wouldn’t have changed a thing about final score and the ass beating we took. Superior talent kicked our ass, not cheating. 

I am beginning to think this is the real advantage the sign-stealing bit may have conferred. As many experts have explained, even a highly-successful sign-stealing operation might enable you to figure out the opponent’s likely playcall two or three times in a game—and even then you likely had other clues by which you’d have been able to mostly figure it out anyway. But if you can get a team to change its signals, now you are causing them to spend valuable preparation time doing that instead of working on other things, and possibly increasing the chances of opposing players getting confused or mistaking the new signs for the old ones, etc. 

So perhaps Day actually played himself by changing up his signals before The Game last season?