2023 tCun Shenanigans, Arguments, Cobras, Feckless Marmots, Fake Pandas, Dirty Cheaters

[MrNuke]

If Michigan forfeits the remainder of the season, then it's a money problem – TV networks will lose product, ad revenues, and ratings, and Penn State and Maryland will lose home gate receipts.

Again withhold any lost revenue that impacts the other 13 schools of the conference from their revenue distribution or distributions from the conference.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Only DFBIA could twist Michigan voluntarily handing over a computer to be investigated into “some other program hired a PI firm to hack us and dig up dirt!”

This thread is worth the read for the laughs

WaPo: Evidence that Michigan coaches/staff were involved | mgoblog

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/10/25/michigan-computers-sig… Not great. At least it doesn't tie back to Harbaugh at all.

mgoblog.com

 

[NFBuck]

If Michigan plays the remainder of the season with penalties, then it's a quality problem – if the entire coaching staff is immediately fired and the team is ineligible for postseason, then players will hit the portal or sit out of games to protect their draft status. By the time The Game rolls around, mighty Michigan might look more like a MAC team, and that wouldn't be much good for either ratings or integrity of competition.

Is quality a problem, though? Let's say they gut the ttun coaching staff. Will people tune in to see the cheaters justice on the field? I say absolutely. scUM just positioned themselves as the most loathed program in the country. This scandal is being discussed on every message board. Every fanbase is outraged. It's the #1 talking point on every pregame show. They've made themselves the Bishop Sycamore of CFB. People will tune in to see them get their comeuppance.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Also good to see the “success with honor” crowd starting to go with the “well maybe we cheated but nobody cared about this rule until a week ago and it probably won’t be a rule anymore in a couple years anyway” approach.

 

[NFBuck]

Said person(s) saw a money making opportunity and started betting on Michigan to cover – essentially reverse point shaving. Cheating to win games is against the rules of the sport. Cheating to win money is against the rules of law. I'm guessing that someone in Ann Arbor is looking at some jail time.

Please all-mighty Xenu let it be this doofus...

 

[buckeyemania11]

Is quality a problem, though? Let's say they gut the ttun coaching staff. Will people tune in to see the cheaters justice on the field? I say absolutely. scUM just positioned themselves as the most loathed program in the country. This scandal is being discussed on every message board. Every fanbase is outraged. It's the #1 talking point on every pregame show. They've made themselves the Bishop Sycamore of CFB. People will tune in to see them get their comeuppance.

Oh yea Michigan isn’t losing any views if anything they gain hate views of people hoping to see a train wreck.

 

[jakenick06]

Is quality a problem, though? Let's say they gut the ttun coaching staff. Will people tune in to see the cheaters justice on the field? I say absolutely. scUM just positioned themselves as the most loathed program in the country. This scandal is being discussed on every message board. Every fanbase is outraged. It's the #1 talking point on every pregame show. They've made themselves the Bishop Sycamore of CFB. People will tune in to see them get their comeuppance.

 

[lvbuckeye]

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[NFBuck]

Only DFBIA could twist Michigan voluntarily handing over a computer to be investigated into “some other program hired a PI firm to hack us and dig up dirt!”

This thread is worth the read for the laughs

WaPo: Evidence that Michigan coaches/staff were involved | mgoblog

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/10/25/michigan-computers-sig… Not great. At least it doesn't tie back to Harbaugh at all.

mgoblog.com

I posted this thread last night. It is an amazing study in the power of denial and the literal definition of an echo chamber. They immediately jump to the (false) assumption that somebody stole the information and/or "hacked" them and the entire thread runs with it hatching every insane conspiracy theory imaginable. I could only read so far before my eyes started rolling into the back of my head.

Look, this place was no bastion of impartiality when "Tat Gate" kicked off, but these whack jobs are taking it to another level. They've seriously whipped themselves into such a "RyAn DaY HaCkEd OuR SeRvErS!!!1!!11!" fervor that it becomes impossible for anybody with an IQ above room temperature to digest past a page. The few posters that dare call out the abject lunacy are quickly shouted down by the drooling masses. They're literally parking themselves in that thread and repeating the same talking points over and over.

They've gone right off the reservation.

 

[woofermazing]

Maybe this shitshow will push CFB to implement QB radios like the NFL. Unfortunately knowing what's coming isn't what helped scUM control the LoS in The Game the past couple years. On the other hand if not scouting TCU is what caused them to lose to that shittastic team maybe it was all because they knew what was coming. We gave UGA their biggest test of the season and scUM lost to a team that they crushed. Maybe that was the game that made them realize they need to cheat against everyone. Here’s to Hairball never working again after this season.

I'll find it, there was a play in 2021 where we were in 3rd and long, called a run with 4 wide. Both scum safeties came sprinting down to the play side right before the snap and blew it up. I remember thinking, wow that takes balls with our receivers. But it wasn't balls...

I don't buy the not that big of an advantage. If there's not a huge talent gap, if you can block and tackle okay, you can basically blow up every play.

The only exception I think was Kenneth Walker, and I think it was because he was so good at cutbacks. Watching now, the defense was abandoning gaps and going to where they knew the point of attack was, and he would read it and cutback.

 

[Dryden]

Maybe it has been mentioned here, but I've heard a few reasons they don't want to go to radios. (For the record, I think the NCAA should allow the radios in the helmets.)

First, is the cost. Not all teams make money, so the teams that don't make money - here's another thing to bring their bottom line even farther down.

Second, for some reason (I didn't hear what that reason is), that move would first be done on a conference-by-conference level. So if the Big Ten gets radios, and the Big Twelve doesn't, they're going to cry that the Big Ten team has an advantage. So.. fine - they can't use radios when playing out-of-conference opponents. It's now a disadvantage for the Big Ten team that has been used to using radios to suddenly not be allowed to use the radios. So the conferences don't want to put their teams at a disadvantage against other conferences. Again, I think the NCAA should just allow it across the board, but whoever came up with this seems to think that won't happen.

Third reason I heard was about liability. I don't know why this would be different from the NFL, though. But the helmets are made by some company, and that company doesn't want to get into the liability of including radios. The radio company doesn't want to get into the liability of college kids' safety. Seems pretty lame to me - why not use whatever company is making the helmets for the NFL?

Finally, I think some teams don't want to go to radios because they've gotten good at legally stealing the other teams' signals, and breaking their code. I'm saying "legally" because I don't want to know about who else is illegally doing this, though, I think we'll hear about more teams in the next 3-5 years. But these teams get a good advantage by breaking the other teams' codes, and they don't want to give that up.

There is also the issue that wireless technology sometimes just doesn't fucking work, because _technology_.

Every NFL Sunday there will be a drive or a series in one game or another where a QB's earpiece goes out. It generally does not become a big deal because of all the technical staff on hand at the stadiums, backup helmets, and the fact almost every NFL stadium is brand new or technologically retrofitted over the past ten years to handle all this.

That will not be the case in college. While the cost of the tech itself is trivial, the cost to support the tech is not. You're looking at a million dollars in labor costs year round on the support staff because you need to staff trained, specialized radio personnel on both offense and defense at field level and up in the box.

 

[Bucklion]

I posted this thread last night. It is an amazing study in the power of denial and the literal definition of an echo chamber. They immediately jump to the (false) assumption that somebody stole the information and/or "hacked" them and the entire thread runs with it hatching every insane conspiracy theory imaginable. I could only read so far before my eyes started rolling into the back of my head.

Look, this place was no bastion of impartiality when "Tat Gate" kicked off, but these whack jobs are taking it to another level. They've seriously whipped themselves into such a "RyAn DaY HaCkEd OuR SeRvErS!!!1!!11!" fervor that it becomes impossible for anybody with an IQ above room temperature to digest past a page. The few posters that dare call out the abject lunacy are quickly shouted down by the drooling masses. They're literally parking themselves in that thread and repeating the same talking points over and over.

They've gone right off the reservation.

This shit from that thread is just next level. Has to be a troll. Has to be.

BatmanUMfan


October 25th, 2023 at 6:51 PM ^

Did anyone else notice at the Ohio State – Penn State game TV broadcast, Ryan Day and James Franklin were talking to each other before the game?
They were friendly and joking with one another.
I have a suspicion that Ryan Day has shared information on how to beat Michigan with James Franklin. It may be related to the fact that Ryan Day has access to Michigan’s practice videos and he knows that he started the cascade of events leading to this past two weeks.
He may be laughing and enjoying this for now, until the spotlight shines on him as the master of starting this whole series of events.
Michigan and the media need to focus on the potential illegal aspect of obtaining this information, and who started this whole thing!

 

[gmen6981]

OMG I'm ded. Lost it completely at "They go good with milk".

 

[heisman]

I posted this thread last night. It is an amazing study in the power of denial and the literal definition of an echo chamber. They immediately jump to the (false) assumption that somebody stole the information and/or "hacked" them and the entire thread runs with it hatching every insane conspiracy theory imaginable. I could only read so far before my eyes started rolling into the back of my head.

Look, this place was no bastion of impartiality when "Tat Gate" kicked off, but these whack jobs are taking it to another level. They've seriously whipped themselves into such a "RyAn DaY HaCkEd OuR SeRvErS!!!1!!11!" fervor that it becomes impossible for anybody with an IQ above room temperature to digest past a page. The few posters that dare call out the abject lunacy are quickly shouted down by the drooling masses. They're literally parking themselves in that thread and repeating the same talking points over and over.

They've gone right off the reservation.

Actually, they have gone full retard and now their common theory is that their AD is behind all of this.

 

[NFBuck]

Actually, they have gone full retard and now their common theory is that their AD is behind all of this.

Remarkable. I stopped reading last night when they were still convinced it was tOSU/Ryan Day.