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Huh. Former Buckeye. So Michigan fans are the only ones thinking about conspiracy theories.

Edit: this is a good article that addresses the pitchforks and M fan conspiracy theories. https://www.si.com/college/michigan/football/michigan-wolverines-football-ncaa-investigation-connor-stalions-sign-stealing-jim-harbaugh-big-ten There are going to be people that come up with lots of videos, especially OSU folks since they are rumored to have known about the upcoming illegal scouting aligations before they hit the airwaves. So what happens if M kicks OSUs booty again this year? What is the excuse going to be? 'We forgot to change our signals'. Maybe this is why OSU lost. ...

Looks like the DL hit the back first. Can you hear with a headset on?

I think CMU said they were numbered. Maybe they have no idea who gets one. I wonder if someone would come forward if they sold it...maybe not because they would never get another one.

How many of these fights did Israel start, going back to 1948 when the British mandate ended and the UN divided this land up? Seems like everytime someone picks a fight, Israel wins and takes more land as a result. They took the Golan Heights for security. They built walls to protect against suicide bombers. That actually worked. Then they had to build the Iron dome for the rockets. Now that got overwhelmed. There are Israeli Arabs with full rights in Israel. I suspect they could get along peacefully if everyone around them wasn't trying to annihilate them.

It's not just Hamas that has this goal. Iran, Syria, Hezbola, to name a few, and my empoyee from Israel mentioned Qatar the other day which shocked me a bit. Not sure why they care.

I think CMU is at least confirming the dude is not part of the staff or someone from their list. Seems like if it was Stalions, the NCAA would have already found this out from the interviews...assuming they did interviews, AND Stalions cooperated during the interview. Since it was an MSU home game, doesn't that mean MSU should have a list of who received passess? ...Unless the pass was forged ???

Hey...that's what I said....the ultimate middle finger. I mean the NCAA isn't going to last much longer...at least for football. By the time they get around to a punishment, they may not here.

And then there is this with regard to contract extension.

So apparently Stalions somehow snuck onto the CMU sideline. If this is him, I wonder how he got a sideline pass? Or is he tresspassing? Or who in the hell knows.

That is the theory, although it would be a fun middle finger if they did it now. Just put in a clause that either side can terminate with 1 months notice, no buyout. The best thing M can do for themselves is win out, since this was know prior to MSU. I still wonder why teams don't just use arm bands. I guess because have to huddle. The interesting thing is they have not gotten a notice of allegations or their 90-day window to respond. I doubt anything happens this season.

Peacock has a 7 day free trial....for those too cheap to pay $5.

Too bad they all didn't end this way.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-president-announces-advisory-council-combat-antisemitism-campus-no-longer Gay delivered remarks at the Harvard Hillel Shabbat Dinner, saying that "we are witnessing a surge in anti-Jewish incidents and rhetoric across the nation — and on our own campus," where she said that she has heard "story after story" of "Jewish students feeling increasingly uneasy or even threatened." "As president, I am committed to tackling this pernicious hatred with the urgency it demands," Gay said in her remarks. "Antisemitism has a very long and shameful history at Harvard. For years, this University has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer."

Or folks just saying things...two insiders say otherwise.who knows what is real. I am not sure that someone hiring a PI firm to get sign gate info is real either. This is a UofM regent refuting the claim of an emergency meeting. It's getting crazy.

The conspiracy theory at M is that a former alumni Jim Stapleton, who starting working for the NCAA a couple years back, hates Harbaugh and is leaking info to the NCAA in order to kill Harbaugh's new contract extension that was due this week. A writer named John U. Bacon accused Stapleton of being Harbaugh's problem. Incidentally, Stapleton was on the board of the Vikings too. Stapleton has threatened a defamation lawsuit against Bacon https://www.diehardsport.com/college-football/michigan-writer-issues-response-to-jim-stapleton-after-calling-him-whistleblower/ And now the WSJ says Harbaugh's contract was pulled off the table this week, which of course fans the conspiracy flame. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/jim-harbaugh-michigan-contract-sign-stealing-21d5e1b6 Keeps getting more and more weird.

Brian Kelly's opinion. I don't like him much, but he doesn't seem to care. It’s silly,” he told ESPN on Wednesday. “Silly meaning my genuine feeling is that we have too many smart people that have looked at this and said we should be doing it and we haven’t taken the time to actually move it forward.” Kelly said that teams attempting to steal signals of opponents has been “going on forever.” Asked whether those efforts ever rose to the level of what Michigan is accused of, sending people to scout opponents in person and using recording devices, Kelly said, “Who knows.” “But this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of sign stealing,” he said, “whether there is proposed sign stealing or people were buying tickets to other games. This is all part of why this should not even be part of the equation.” Kelly said the tangible effect of stealing signals is debatable. In 32 years of coaching, he said, he has never believed they lost a game because of it. “I’ve never come back to the office and go, they got us,” he added.

I predict bowl eligibility...MSU is horrible.

NU becomes bowl eligible against MSU. Maryland is imploding and the NU D is good enough to win that game. NU turns the ball over too much to beat Iowa. Since that is the only way Iowa scores, I think Iowa wins that one. I don’t think NU can take Wiscy, yet. The answer is still No, but 7 wins is a good start.

Now this is the Bill Maher of old! “Real Time" host Bill Maher compared newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to the Maine mass shooter responsible for murdering 18 people and injuring 13 others. "When you're this much of a religious fanatic, there is no room for real democracy. That's not what you believe in. He said it today. 'Look in the Bible. That's my world view,'" Maher said during the panel discussion. "And I was reading about this horrible shooting in Maine. And, you know, we don't know much about the guy yet, but apparently he heard voices and I thought ‘Is he that different than Mike Johnson?’"

You are going to jinx it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/source-ohio-state-inquired-about-in-person-scouting-of-cfp-opponents-ahead-of-last-seasons-playoff-194605956.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZ29ibG9nLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABlHNqQHNA8FMXriRy36PqIS9fnT5ERbNMK1nL8Yj_t-21sjuSFlMALAbIsAqd-UPgIb5M3FFq8t-NQKiV9JEcn9Ss8sfYsVZi1U9gqgJkQATK0b8_geKxtqkaWnMuU9gwFHn-8Y5ZcLB-_mZHFZI3R6-tuNFszD14uCK1oTI3en OSU wanted to know if this was an exception for non NCAA sponsored events.

Columbia University graduate, billionaire investor and Omega Advisors CEO Leon Cooperman had harsh words for Ivy League students who are sharing anti-Israel sentiment on campus. “These kids at the colleges have sh-- for brains," Cooperman told "The Claman Countdown" host Liz Claman on Wednesday. "We have one reliable ally in the Middle East. That's Israel. We only have one democracy in the Middle East. That's Israel. And we have one economy tolerant of different people, gays, lesbians, etc. That's Israel. So they have no idea what these young kids are doing." "Now, the real shame is, I've given to Columbia probably about $50 million over many years," he continued. "And I'm going to suspend my giving. I'll give my giving to other organizations." I hate to break it to him, but 50M is not very much for a billionaire and the kids hate the fact that he has that much wealth.

Weiss and signal gate are two different things. Weiss got caught a couple years ago or at least before the 2022 season hacking UofM computers. Stealing PWs or something like that. I am not sure I ever heard what he was up to. He was unceremoniously fired without much info. With how quickly it happened most folks thought it was something pretty bad.