@MichiganNation2 Here is some new information. A current video assistant coordinator at OSU (whose responsibilities include Catapult management) is Venmo friends with both of the former OSU-now Catapult employees previously identified, although they do not appear to have overlapped in their time at OSU 🤔 More interestingly, both of those employees’ Venmo accounts have been conspicuously taken down.
I’m all for the (for now baseless) mudslinging and this definitely was a smear campaign, but this isn’t the 19th century. The location of these people is meaningless.
Sent from a 247 Message Board called Victor's club:
From the beginning this has always felt like an attack. It has felt organized and coordinated.
Michigan vs. Everybody is a catchy motto that looks good on a shirt, but it may turn out to be truer than we could have ever imagined.
I’m generally not a tin foil hat guy, but the coincidences are becoming more difficult to ignore. Look at all the key players in this story (so far):
Thamel - MA
Day Family - MA & NH
Charlie Baker - MA
WaPo Writer - MA
PI Firm - NH
Yood Family - MA
Petitti - MA - Harvard Law
Catapult - 2 major offices in MA
When those powers combine do we get some absurd OSU variation of Captain Planet?
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“Kyle McCord is going to give our D some trouble. We have to respond” - McCarthy
“[Their D] is definitely going to provide a challenge for us, it should be a good game” - Corum
“We’ve learned a lot about what’s been going on the past two years” - Day
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@intrinsicvalyou@TomOrr4@UMichFootball Michigan ATS 2023:
Before Signgate: 3-3-1
After Signgate: 2-1 (with the 1 being a backdoor cover by Purdue)
Moving on...
@AP@SInow@RJ_cfb Everything else is “noise” that should be taken as such by those in charge of these punishments. Unfortunately tea leaves say that may not be the case, but we’ll see (6/6)
Point A is college coaches went into a game having used all-22 and the tv broadcast to scout opponent tendencies (and decode signals). Point B is the team had the team’s signals completely decoded. Much of the talk around Signgate is about being at Point B 🧵
@AP@SInow@RJ_cfb This should throw out the “major scandal” discussion and any talk involving punishing the current team’s goals. It does not let Stalions off the hook or UM off the hook, but punishment talk should be about show cause on Stalions, probation and a fine (5/6)
@alex_kirshner @rjhucks …competitive advantage, where this shows, at the very least, that advanced sign stealing is not exclusive to UM, and suggests it’s not that big of an advantage. So with this it’s fair to say “the tenor around this is ridiculous.” Not UM is off the hook
@alex_kirshner @rjhucks Alex, I get where you’re coming from and I don’t think reasonable UM fans would argue that Stalions didn’t break a rule, but the reason this is a national scandal is that it, on the surface, appears like one of the most successful teams the last couple of years had a huge…