Valar Morghulis 

It looks like Zordich is on CMU staff. Anyone know if he left on bad terms? Wikipedia says he was fired in 2021. Would fit the narrative of the leaker being someone that most people don’t know but the hardcore fans would. 

I’m with you, CMU knows it’s not anyone on their staff.  I think the problem is, how does anyone prove that it was Stalions?  Unless the coach that brought him into the stadium and gave him a sideline pass rats himself out (I’m guessing here because nothing else really makes sense), it’s going to be pretty hard to prove it is Stalions if Stalions didn’t buy a ticket in his name (which is also entirely possible I guess). Going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

You're correct, it was '81.  It's a little confusing how it was written, but it says 1981 in the middle leading up to the play.  The coaching clinic happened in '84, but his prime example of the lesson learned happened before that, in '81.

Number two helps support a thought i’ve had over the last week. The questions i asked myself were “why would he do it?” and “why wouldn’t the coaches know what he was doing?”Here’s are my thoughts: 

• We already have multiple coaches and former players support that you can steal signs based off network/all-22 footage. 
• One article stated that he impressed the coaches (before he was on staff or as a volunteer) with how he was able to decode signals based off network broadcasts

My guess is that he didn’t need this info to decode signals. He already proved he could do it from film that was already available to him and the public. He likely did this multiple times to demonstrate ability and gain the trust of the coaches. Thus, the benefit of getting film from the stands is that it likely sped up his process. I doubt you can get full footage on signs from every play from film, so this is a way he could accomplish that to give himself more time for other things.

My deep, tinfoil theory is that this helped give him more time to work on his overall goal of the manifesto (ie help him prepare for his eventual “Michigan takeover”). I don’t think he had much of a football background, so this probably opened up more time for him to learn about football from the coaches and/or how to coach. 

The article did call out OSU as one of the teams specifically, just have to scroll down a bit to find it.

A “fan” would never hope that.

I haven’t seen this mentioned, but when I watched the game a second time I noticed that there was a false start on their last touchdown as well.  The right tight end (83 if I recall correctly) flinched about a second before the snap. Can’t see it on the replay but it’s on the live play. Don’t recall what down it was when that happened, but that would have drastically decreased their chances of the third touchdown as well.

I agree, that would be nice. It would be even better if you could do it for users that have different names but are the same person. That way, we could ignore both you and Diagonal Blue with one click.