The first thing I have to say about this is….

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

I didn’t know they were cheating, of course. I never would’ve guessed that.

But I knew something was up when all of the sudden, after going 2-4 in the Covid season, Michigan suddenly starts dominating the Big Ten out of nowhere.

And suddenly, in 2021, a lightbulb just turned on in Jim Harbaugh’s head, and he figured out how to become a great football coach?

I’ve been saying on this site that Michigan isn’t really as good as they appear to be. There is something fraudulent about what they’ve been doing the past few years.

I chalked it up to a combination of the following three factors: weak out of conference scheduling, the decline of both Wisconsin and Penn State (programs that used to beat Michigan on a fairly regular basis), and the drop-off in Ohio State’s defense.

I figured those three factors could explain why Michigan was suddenly dominating the Big Ten yet still being exposed as frauds in the playoff.

I never suspected that cheating was the fourth factor that explained their sudden rise to power since 2021.

But I knew something wasn’t right.

Let’s go over some bullet points, though:

• Apparently they were sending people to the games of their future opponents to not only steal signs but basically anything else you could ever want about an opponent that is not available through the normal means of the TV copy of the game, and the official All 22/Endzone footage. That is very, very much against the rules. The reason you’re not allowed to send people to scout opponents in person is because there are a lot of smaller programs where money is tight and they can’t afford it.
• Sign stealing isn’t illegal. But the manner in which Michigan did it is very much illegal. The extent that they went to was way over the line.
• Like, if somebody figures out your signs from watching official game film, or just through the normal course of the game, that’s on you. If the guy on the sidelines pats his belly three times and holds two fingers in the air, and you figure out that that means cover 2–pattern recognition–then that’s fine. But this is not what Michigan was doing, apparently. They went above and way beyond the rules. 
• Apparently it’s not even a question of whether it happened, but whether or not the NCAA can prove that Jim Harbaugh knew about it and ordered it. It’s like how the media talks with every political scandal: “Hwhat did the President know and Hwhen did he know it!?”

So now this would explain their bowl record–they dominate the Big Ten, but they still get exposed in the postseason.

They didn’t know they would be playing TCU in the playoffs so they couldn’t send their guys to steal TCU’s signs in advance.

They didn’t know they were playing Georgia in the 2021 playoff, so they couldn’t send guys to steal Georgia’s signs in advance.

A few more bullet points:

• Greg Schiano alluded to SOMETHING fishy going on during a halftime interview a few weeks ago when Rutgers played Michigan. Now we know what he was talking about.
• Michigan became a playoff contender without a corresponding level-up in recruiting? Fishy.
• They go 2-4 in the Covid season, when there were no fans in the stands and hence no ability to spy. UM then redoes Jim Harbaugh’s contract so he basically has to take a pay cut, and it basically felt like he was on thin ice unless he turned things around. Lo and behold, Michigan has their best season ever under Harbaugh in 2021, and they’ve maintained that in 2022 and 2023.
• The Big Ten has warned all future Michigan opponents this season. That’s a pretty unprecedented measure that I’ve never seen before.
• There was just something fishy about Michigan’s meteoric rise, now that I think about it. I thought it was because Michigan State and Wisconsin fell off, and Ohio State stopped playing defense. But apparently there was more to it.
• And they expect us to believe it was simply due to “player development” and an “improved culture”?
• There was no corresponding level-up in recruiting. It’s not like they were recruiting at a top-15 level and then started recruiting at a top-5 level (and if they suddenly did that, you’d have to ask questions about that as well).

Michigan fans are saying it’s all a conspiracy, it happens anytime someone has a great season. And they pointed to Chase Young getting under scrutiny in 2019, Cam Newton getting investigated in 2010 during his Heisman season.

Maybe so. But those were player-centric controversies centered around recruiting and/or improper payments.

This is much different.

It’s already cooked for Michigan, though. Everyone that plays them will change up their signs now. They’re wise to the gig. Even if somehow this whole investigation is conducted and Michigan is cleared, everyone else in the Big Ten is now looking at Michigan with the side eye–like we do not trust you. We are not leaving anything up to chance when we play you. We are going to assume the worst, and we are going to make sure there’s no possible way you could have the inside information on us. It’s over. Whatever operation Michigan was running to gain an unfair advantage, it’s now over, regardless of what this investigation finds.

Is it cheating? If it gets you an unfair advantage, then yes. Flat out. If you’re the only one doing it and nobody else has that advantage, it’s cheating. Especially if it’s already against the rules. Cheating.

It’s fair to say that you still have to execute even if you know the other team’s plays. You still have to make tackles, block, fill gaps, hit holes, make accurate throws, etc. But you still do have an advantage over the other team in that you know what’s coming and they don’t. It’s not a level playing field.

The bottom line:

1. There was a rule that Michigan knowingly broke. The rule had been in place since 1994, don’t try to tell me they were negligent of the rule. And in any case, negligence isn’t a valid defense.
2. They wouldn’t have gone through the risk of breaking this rule unless they felt it was valuable to them. If it doesn’t benefit you, why are you doing it? Why are you spending time and money and resources to scout your opponents in this manner if it doesn’t benefit you? If it didn’t give them an edge on the field they wouldn’t have been doing it. Plain and simple.
3. I know it’s a serious violation because opposing coaches sounded the alarm. They felt so strongly about what Michigan was doing that they sounded the alarm. And Michigan fans will say, “They just hate us because they ain’t us! They’re just jealous!” Sour grapes and all that. Okay, bitch, you have been good for like 2 years. Shut the fuck up. Ohio State was dominating these teams for decades on end and nobody ever reported them for anything like this. Why hasn’t anybody in the SEC reported Alabama for sign stealing to try to get them in trouble? Or Georgia?
4. Everyone knows that Brent Venables is the best in the business at stealing other teams’ offensive signs. He was legendary for it at Clemson. He would often wait until he knew what the offensive play call was to call his own defensive plays. But Clemson was never under investigation by the NCAA for advance scouting. He did it all within the rules. What Michigan did was different.
5. No one is saying stealing signs is against the rules. It’s not. And the NCAA obviously knows that. They know their own rules. The reason this is being investigated is because this goes beyond the rules.
6. The way to fix this is to just allow quarterbacks to have radios in their helmet like they do in the NFL. The NFL has been using radio helmets to call in plays for decades now, it’s time for college football to get with the times. They’d totally eliminate any need for using secret signs and codes to relay plays from the sideline to the players on the field. I just don’t buy the idea that it’s cost prohibitive. For one thing, there isn’t a single Power Five program that couldn’t afford to do it right now. And the G5 teams, I mean come on. What’s the most a radio helmet could cost? $1,000? $1,500? You’re telling me there’s football programs out there at the FBS level that couldn’t scrap together $1,500 for a radio helmet? I just don’t believe that. Every school has at least a few wealthy alumni or boosters who would gladly pony up the money for that. Fortunately it does look like the NCAA rule committee is seriously considering allowing the headset helmets for next season.

So how does it play out from here? 

Michigan’s AD Warde Manuel put out a statement basically saying we do not tolerate unethical behavior over here, we’ll fully cooperate with the NCAA, we’re taking this very seriously. It almost felt like he was siding with the NCAA and against Jim Harbaugh. Like when you get in trouble at school and your parents take the principal’s side. 

It’s not a very well kept secret that those two don’t like each other, but you think they’d kind of circle the wagons here with the program facing some pretty serious repercussions.

I think we get into a situation where Harbaugh leaves for the NFL after the season, but since Michigan wants to look proactive and like they took action, they might try to fire him before he does. Because then they can say to the NCAA, “Hey, go easy on us. We terminated him.”

Because the NCAA is still going to drop the hammer on Michigan regardless. Somebody has to get punished for this. Rules were broken–rampantly, knowingly, and over an extended time.

If Harbaugh jumps to the NFL like Pete Carroll or Chip Kelly, the NCAA isn’t just going to be like, “Oh drat! He got away! Nothing we can do now, I guess!” No, they are still going to punish the Michigan football program. 

Because ultimately, Jim Harbaugh has a boss. He has somebody he reports to, and that’s the Athletic Director. Jim Harbaugh is responsible for the things that were happening at his football program, and Warde Manuel is responsible for the the things that are going on at his athletic department, even if he had no idea what kind of shenanigans Harbaugh was up to. The AD still ultimately has some responsibility for violations that occurred on his watch.

And so I think the reality of the situation puts Manuel and Harbaugh at odds with one another. They have competing interests. Warde Manuel doesn’t want for Harbaugh to just bolt to the NFL and leave him holding the bag. I really do think Manuel will be compelled to fire Harbaugh before Harbaugh can bolt to the NFL, because then Ward Manuel looks like he was taking it seriously and on the same side as the NCAA.

He does not want to give off the impression that he’s not being cooperative with the NCAA, or that the Michigan Athletic Department has closed ranks and formed a phalanx to keep the NCAA out. If Harbaugh is a sinking ship, it doesn’t make any sense to be on that ship with him. Why protect a guy who is about to leave you high and dry and bolt for the NFL?

It’s actually now in Warde Manuel’s best interest to fire Jim Harbaugh. To do what’s best for the long term health of the program, yes, it’s in his best interest to fire Harbaugh in hopes of buying some leniency from the NCAA.

Harbaugh is gone. That’s a certainty. The only question in my mind is whether Michigan is going to have to vacate their Big Ten Championships and all their wins the past three seasons. They may even get a multi-year bowl ban, too. I don’t know if it will rise to the level of losing scholarships since it’s not a recruiting violation.

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Monday Updates

Monday afternoon, more information was revealed by ESPN:

“Connor Stalions, the suspended Michigan staffer at the center of the NCAA’s sign-stealing probe, purchased tickets in his own name for more than 30 games over the past three years at 11 different Big Ten schools, sources at 11 different league schools told ESPN.

The scope of the University of Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing operation includes both video evidence of electronics prohibited by the NCAA to steal signs and a significant paper trail, sources told ESPN. Stalions forwarded the tickets he bought to at least three different people in different areas of the country, sources say, which hints at the breadth of the operation.“

It’s over. It’s cooked. There’s a paper trail. 

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

And not only that: 11 different Big Ten schools have joined together to turn Michigan in. There’s 14 in the conference, and obviously you exclude Michigan themselves, but that means only 2 teams in the Big Ten aren’t part of this. I wonder which 2 programs they are? Probably one of them is Minnesota because of how big a hard on PJ Fleck has for Michigan.

But this really shows you that basically the whole conference has joined forces against Michigan. It’s 11 against 1 right now.

“The NCAA is expected to receive video evidence this week of illegal technology used in scouting tied to tickets purchased by Stalions, according to sources. An opposing Big Ten school looked up in-stadium surveillance video from a game earlier this year, and sources said the person in the seat of the ticket purchased by Stalions held his smartphone up and appeared to film the home team’s sideline the entire game.

Sources confirmed to ESPN that Stalions purchased tickets on both sides of the stadium — across from each bench — for Ohio State’s game with Penn State on Saturday. Michigan plays both teams in upcoming weeks. According to sources, the tickets purchased by Stalions were not used Saturday. Stalions’ name emerged publicly in an ESPN story Friday. He was suspended with pay by Michigan.“

This tells me they haven’t been able to scout Ohio State or Penn State yet this season. They planned to do so on Saturday, knocking out two birds with one stone. It also shows us that there were more people involved in the actual scouting operation than just Stalions.

“None of the tickets that the 11 schools told ESPN about involved Michigan as an opponent, per sources. The games involved either one or both of the teams that the Wolverines were playing later that season, according to sources.“

This is key, because they can’t even try to argue that Stalions was just attending one of their own games. None of the games involved Michigan at all. It was purely to scout other teams.

“Sources indicated that Stalions forwarded tickets to at least three other individuals, with the ticket transfer showing up through ticket data tracking. Those tickets were used by individuals other than Stalions to get into the game, including the one in the video the NCAA is expected to receive.“

“The ticket purchases fall into a seat location pattern — somewhere around the 45-yard line and raised up enough for a clear view of the opposite sideline.

One source told ESPN that Stalions bought tickets to five different games at that school over the past three years. Another said it was four games over the past two years. A third source said it was nine games over the past three years. Some of the purchases were single tickets, others were for multiple people, and sometimes seats were bought on both sides of the stadium near midfield.“

Well, maybe they have been able to scout Ohio State and Penn State this season. Seems like it took Stalions more than one game to crack certain teams’ codes, so he went back multiple times.

“Officials around the Big Ten are upset, according to sources, as allegations of this type of coordinated and orchestrated capturing of signals looms as distinctly different allegations than the gamesmanship of attempting to decode signals from across the sideline (in-game stealing is not prohibited under NCAA rules).“

The alleged evidence of the signals being captured on film means the Wolverines could now face more scrutiny for violating an additional NCAA rule.

“The first NCAA rule in question is scouting in opposing stadiums, which has been in place since 1994. The second potential rule being broken, evidence of which had not been reported prior, could mean that Michigan violated Article 11 subsection H of the NCAA football rulebook: “Any attempt to record, either through audio or video means, any signals given by an opposing player, coach or other team personnel is prohibited.”‘

It’s so cooked.

“It’s uncertain who was funding the purchases. Stalions makes $55,000 per year, according to the University of Michigan’s website. But the operation included thousands of dollars in ticket sales and the cost of travel to the stadiums.

Even if the school doesn’t sell the ticket directly, it can electronically trace the tickets to the school’s home games, sources said, including the time the person entered. School officials around the Big Ten began to trace Stalions’ purchases on Friday, soon after ESPN named Stalions as a person of interest in the NCAA’s probe early Friday morning (sources said the NCAA has interest in his computer as part of the investigation).

The schools began discovering Stalions had bought the tickets himself, and it raised suspicions because either the home school or visitors were future Michigan opponents. Stalions is a former captain in the United States Marine Corps who boasted on LinkedIn of his knack for “identifying and exploiting critical vulnerabilities and centers of gravity in the opponent scouting process.” He’d been a volunteer at Michigan, according to LinkedIn, from 2015 to 2022 before being hired full time in May 2022.“

And why did he get hired in May 2022? Because it was just a few months after Michigan had their best season in years, and Jim Harbaugh’s best season as head coach there. They finally beat Ohio State, and they realized the value of what Stalions was doing for them.

“Michigan, which was already involved in an NCAA investigation for alleged illegal recruiting during the COVID-19 dead period, has pledged full cooperation with the latest investigation. There’s no precedent to indicate what any potential punishment would be for Michigan or coach Jim Harbaugh, as NCAA enforcement has never seen a case of this scope in signal stealing.

The allegations against Michigan could be greater than what got the New England Patriots in trouble during the Spygate scandal that unfolded during the 2007 season. The crux of those allegations revolved around in-game taping of opponents’ signals during Patriots games.

The potential of these allegations being added to the NCAA case could increase Harbaugh’s exposure to punishment by the NCAA’s head coach responsibility rules, which essentially state the head coach is responsible for everything that happens in his program, whether they are aware of it or not.“

So even if they can’t trace it back to Harbaugh and prove that he ordered this, he’s still cooked. He cannot claim ignorance or negligence. Anything untoward that happens at his program is ultimately on him. It’s his responsibility to be aware and have everything under control.

It’s over.

Jim Harbaugh’s tenure at Michigan is going to end in disgrace and scandal–this sign stealing scandal just being the biggest of them all. But as the article alluded to, they’re also under ongoing investigation for recruiting violations in the Covid year.

Then there was the story towards the end of last season where co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss was fired for cause after being found to have “inappropriately accessed” the computer accounts of other school employees. The matter was even investigated by campus police. We have no other information than that–we don’t know whose computers Weiss was improperly accessing, or why, or what he was looking for.

They covered up a gun charge against former defensive lineman Mazi Smith last season, then he likely got favorable treatment from the prosecutor. Smith was initially cited in October of 2022, but the incident didn’t come to light until nearly 2 months later in early December.

I think Jim Harbaugh sold his soul sometime around 2020. After 5 straight losses to Ohio State, and a 2-4 Covid season in which Michigan ducked the game against Ohio State, I think Harbaugh said, “Enough is enough. I’m doing whatever it takes to win.”

It was all fake. 2021, 2022 and now 2023–it’s all been a fugazi. They’re not really this good. They only look this good because they knew what plays the other team was running.

It’s so cooked.

I’m not sure what other information has to come to light for all the proverbial “dots” to be connected here, and then for Harbaugh to subsequently be either suspended or terminated, but it seems like we’re pretty close to that point already.

They know Stalions was attending future Michigan opponents’ games and recording them from across the field. They know beyond a shadow of a doubt it was him. He’s on the payroll of the Michigan Wolverines football program. There’s a paper trail to account for it all. And we also know that it’s not relevant whether or not this can all be traced back to Harbaugh–if it happened inside of his program, the NCAA just assumes he was aware of it and okay with it.

But he absolutely was aware of it. There’s him, and there’s Stallions at last year’s Ohio State-Michigan game. Right there on the sidelines, 5 feet away from one another.

You think Harbaugh just allowed this Stalions guy to be around the program, and be on the sidelines during games, and he had no idea what it was Stalions actually did for the team? Get real.

Tom Orr, a photographer and reporter for the site Buckeye Huddle, took these photos from last year’s Ohio State-Michigan game. In the wake of all this news, he went through the photos he took from that game and picked out the ones where Stalions was clearly visible. These were a few that he shared on Twitter/X–and they belie the claim that this Stalions guy was just a low-level staffer who went rouge, and this doesn’t go any further up the chain.

Stalions stood there on the sidelines right next to Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter and told him every play Ohio State was about to run.

Ohio State’s offense is on the field, so Stalions is standing next to Minter and telling him what play is coming next.

Look at him with that big batch of papers–you know exactly what’s on them.

Then, when Ohio State’s defense was on the field (#15 is Tanner McCallister, a safety who was on the team last year), he stood right next to offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore and told him what play was coming:

You do not just allow some “low-level staffer” to be joined at the hip with both coordinators in the middle of a game–unless that “low-level staffer” is a lot more important to your football operation than you’re letting on.

Teams limit the number of people who can actually communicate with their coordinators to as bare a minimum as possible–they don’t want too many voices in his ear distracting them as he’s calling plays. For Stalions to be essentially joined at the hip with both coordinators whenever their respective units are on the field makes it abundantly clear that not only was Stalions’ reconnaissance work sanctioned by the highest reaches of the Michigan football program, but also that it was integral to their gameday operation.

It’s cooked.

Harbaugh may never coach another game for Michigan, the way it looks now.

And you know who else is cooked? Everyone else on his coaching staff, too.

People sang the praises of Jesse Minter, the best defensive coordinator in America.

Sherrone Moore–future head coach, no doubt about it! Future certainly is bright for him!

Now the question is, are these guys actually any good, or was it all Stalions?

I’m sure NFL teams are going to be skeptical of Michigan players now. They’ll wonder if a player just looked better than he really is because his coaches knew what play was coming every time. Certainly they’ll be able to evaluate these players on their attributes and talent independent of the play call, but this complicates the picture a bit.

Michigan football is cooked. The whole program. It sucks for these players because I doubt any of them had any idea what was going on–they just ran the plays their coaches called for them. But the whole program is cooked.

Harbaugh will be out of there soon enough. The NCAA will bring the hammer down, vacate all their wins from the past 3 seasons, place them on bowl ban, and who knows what else. Players will transfer out of there in a mass exodus, because who wants to play at Michigan when you can’t compete for a Championship?

They won’t be able to get a great coach because, again, who will want to coach Michigan when you can’t win the Big Ten and can’t make the playoff?

Everyone on this coaching staff right now is tainted with the stench of this cheating scandal. It’ll be hard for these guys to get jobs elsewhere because other programs will wonder if they’re actually any good at their jobs when they’re not allowed to cheat.

It is so fucking cooked at Michigan. Everyone at Michigan is cooked.

Once the NCAA receives this video evidence that the article alludes to, it’s over. It feels like it’s a matter of days now.

It’s hard for me to believe this will all go down now as opposed to after the season, but things seem to be moving so fast.

Michigan not only cheated in 2021 and 2022, they cheated this year. They were caught this season.

The NCAA typically moves slowly in their investigations, but this seems like an exception–and it has to be expedited because it’s literally an ongoing cheating operation. It was happening up until like, last Thursday. They would still be doing it if they didn’t get caught.

It affects the outcomes of games this season. Action has to be taken swiftly. This is an extraordinary set of circumstances that as far as I know, we’ve never actually seen before. No one has ever been accused of this in college football as long as I’ve been watching.

This is not about some recruiting violations that happened a few years ago, and it’s not really important for the NCAA to act quickly. This is about ongoing cheating.

At the very least, they have to put a stop to it. I think the other programs around the Big Ten have seen to that. Then, after the cheating has been exposed and stopped, then you have to decide if a team that has been caught in an ongoing cheating scandal should still be allowed to compete for a Championship.

What if Michigan somehow wins a National Championship? They were never going to, as I’ve said dozens of times on this website, but if you allow them to compete for a Championship this season, how is that fair to everyone else?

It’s not fair at all. They cheated to win some if not all of their games. There is no way they can just be allowed to continue playing as if they didn’t get caught cheating.

Imagine being a team that loses out on a playoff spot that Michigan gets. Say Georgia goes undefeated and gets one, Oklahoma goes undefeated and gets one, Washington goes undefeated and gets one, and then both Michigan and Florida State are undefeated but the playoff spot goes to Michigan.

How irate would you be if you were Mike Norvell that you missed out on a playoff spot because the team that got it over you cheated?

You would be absolutely livid. Mike Norvell would never let the NCAA hear the end of it.

Michigan has to be put on postseason ban this season. I see no other option. It’s just not fair to the other teams if Michigan is allowed to compete for a Championship. Even if Michigan “only” cheated in half their games, it’s still more than the other teams.

Once the NCAA gets this evidence, they have to disqualify Michigan from the postseason.

I mean, shit, everything they do this season is getting vacated anyway.

I think there’s a very good chance of it happen. And I think what will happen first is the Big Ten disqualifies them from playing for the Big Ten Championship no matter what happens. They literally cheated in Big Ten conference games this season–within the past 6 weeks. How can they not be disqualified for that?

I would not be shocked if the Big Ten comes out and says Michigan is not eligible for the Big Ten Championship game–no matter what their record is, they cannot be the representative of the Big Ten East in Indianapolis this year.

They fucking cheated IN BIG TEN GAMES THIS SEASON.

There are 11 other Big Ten programs that want Jim Harbaugh and his ratfuck program nailed to a wall.

And this is coming from someone who loves watching Michigan get pounded in the playoff every year. I would LOVE to see them get their hopes and dreams crushed by a legit team for a third straight year.

I cannot stand Michigan fans. They live in a fantasy world–they think their team is literally guaranteed to win a Natty this year. They’re absolutely delusional. I would love to see them run into the brick wall of reality once again.

And it’s going to happen when they play Penn State and Ohio State. They’re absolutely going to lose those games if they don’t know what play is coming every time. I’m less confident about Penn State beating them, but Ohio State will beat them. And it’s going to be hilarious because it will make everything so crystal clear and obvious: Michigan only beat Penn State and Ohio State the previous two seasons because they cheated, not because they were better. And now that Michigan can’t cheat anymore, balance is restored. It will be hilarious. Their fans won’t even be able to deny it anymore–it will be blindingly obvious that the 2021 and 2022 seasons for Michigan were fake.

I actually do expect the Big Ten to rule Michigan ineligible from the Championship game. 11 of the 14 teams in the conference have united against Michigan–that’s more than a majority, more than a supermajority, it’s near-unanimous. And it’s not like the remaining 2 Big Ten teams are taking Michigan’s side here–they just didn’t catch Michigan spying on them. They’re probably aligned with the other 11.

I don’t know how these types of things work because I’ve never seen anything like this happens before, but if there is vote on whether Michigan should be disqualified from the Big Ten race this season, that vote is passing resoundingly.

I can only imagine what is going on behind the scenes right now–in the Big Ten headquarters in Chicago, in Ann Arbor, and in the athletic departments of the 11 Big Ten programs that have come forward against Michigan. I guarantee you the phones at the Big Ten HQ are ringing off the hook with program after program calling and demanding Jim Harbaugh be banned from the conference for life.

But beyond just the Big Ten, cheaters absolutely cannot be allowed to take a CFP spot from a team that didn’t cheat. Even if it’s a one loss team and Michigan is undefeated–the one loss team could easily just say, “Well of course they went undefeated–they cheated.”

And now there are rumors that Michigan may have been spying on Georgia starting last year–after Michigan got obliterated by Georgia in the 2021 playoff, they realized they would have to start spying on their potential playoff opponents, and Georgia was #1 on that list. It makes sense.

But the key here is if this thing goes inter-conference, it’s REALLY cooked for Michigan. If Georgia conducts its own little investigation to see if a Connor Stallions ever bought tickets to a Georgia game around the 45 yard line, and if they pull up the surveillance footage from that game and see some dickhead in that seat holding up a phone and recording the Georgia sideline the whole game… at that point you’ve basically got both the Big Ten and SEC aligned against Michigan demanding justice.

And God help Jim Harbaugh if Alabama finds out Michigan was spying on them. Once you get the Godfather Nick Saban himself pissed off, it’s really over. Saban basically runs the whole sport.

Official Fade the Public site policy change: From now on, Michigan will be referred to as “The Cheaters.” They are no longer the Michigan Wolverines.

They are now officially…..

THE CHEATERS