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I'd think the obvious reason is that he's currently broke and Blind Side was nominated for picture of the year and grossed over $300 million at the box office. There's money to be made if he can get his hands on it after the fact.

Really weird story coming out of Oher's camp today. Former 1st round pick alleging Blind Side was one big lie in the sense the Tuohy's never adopted him and instead acted as conservators to prevent him from ever making money on a book and film about his own personal life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38190720/blind-side-subject-michael-oher-alleges-adoption-was-lie-family-took-all-film-proceeds So much to unpack here. -Oher signed away his rights at 18 making him a consenting adult at the time. -Waited until he retired from the NFL to research if he was actually ever legally adopted and nearly 20 years after he signed his rights away to make this public; I've always been under the impression that anyone over the age of 18 must legally consent to being adopted and a court hearing must take place in order for the adoption to be recognized. Would think that matter would have been uncovered years ago. -Very real chance the Tuohy's took severe of a very underprivileged adult but did so in a manner that from a legality standpoint never broke any laws and Oher may be SOL in the end. Any thoughts from a legal standpoint @Bobref

Highly doubt this is a Jim vs the world type deal. This whole thing is likely resolved by now with a little honesty and cooperation that would have resulted in a probationary status and a possible fine.

I’m just going off optics here. “Innocent” man doesn’t take a plea unless it’s a really good deal (which in this case it is) because he is in fact not “innocent”. Nor Does the NCAA IC pull a deal off the table after it has been negotiated unless there’s hard evidence that the punishment is too lenient.

The NCAA isn't going after Harbaugh for the petty Level 2 stuff....or a cheeseburger, they're going after him for lying/misleading the NCAA during an ongoing investigation, a Level 1 infraction. Agree with your initial premise that the original charges don't compare to what happened at Tennessee, which just begs the question, "Why lie about it in the first place"? And if he didn't really lie or obstruct an investigation, why accept the four game punishment in the first place? Harbaugh isn't acting like someone who is completely innocent here.

Tennessee ridded the problem and fired Pruitt and all the players who accepted cash are no longer at the university. I'm not for punishing players/coaches for a prior regimes problem. I'm just saying, if there's zero evidence Harbaugh knew about the alleged violations why did he accept the 4 game punishment to begin with? That doesn't sound like an innocent bystander in all this. And I would highly doubt the Infractions Committee would pull a deal off the table and continue to investigate the matter if they weren't looking to hand out a harsher punishment. Just the optics I see here.

He agreed to the punishment lol. 4 games (against nobodies) for allegedly lying to NCAA investigators, which has gotten multiple coaches fired and in some cases show-cause penalties, was best case scenario for Harbaugh. The infractions committee isn’t rejecting the agreement put in place and walking away. They want blood. This is akin to the prosecutor pulling a plea deal at the 11th hour. Prosecutors don’t pull plea deals and then drop the case altogether.

The NCAA just cancelled their agreement with Harbaugh to suspend him for 4 games and will go to the Infractions Committee after the season. Have to think this is Harbaugh’s last season at Michigan and will go out Pete Carroll style.

Yes changed sometime in June of 2022

I believe teams from Indiana can play any team in the country so long as they travel to or within 300 miles of the Indiana border to play.

IMG started out as a Golf and Tennis academy way back in the day and well before it became a high school. Some of the best golf and tennis players of all-time trained there.

I guess the bigger question is: Does IMG stack it's academy team or do they try to somehow distribute talent so they all see the field. For instance: IMG has a SR RB Jerrick Gibson who is a 4* ranked 64th nationally committed to Texas They also have two JR RB's Anthony Rogers 4* ranked 74th nationally in his class committed to Alabama as well as Donovan Johnson also a 4* ranked 61st nationally in his class who has offers to Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and about 30 other P5 schools. No way those guys are all on the same team right? How do you keep everyone happy? Is it even worth going to IMG if you're splitting a third of the snaps assuming it's evenly distributed? Why is Ben Davis playing this game lol!

I agree with your premises but there's still no rational explanation as to why a team that goes 2-7 should EVER get a more favorable postseason draw than a team that goes 8-1 in almost any scenario imaginable.

Whiteshoes has been providing this content nationally for years and I trust that he knows and studies his stuff. Like any preseason rankings, I'm sure it's largely comprised of prior year results combined with returning production. I'm sure there's some combination of historical tradition that factors in as well.

I can't imagine Ben Davis is paying IMG to come blow their doors off. Perhaps the other way around but that just seems like an odd angle altogether. Perhaps it's nationally televised in some capacity and each school is getting a piece. About the only logical reason why this game being played makes sense.

How many are going to Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Florida, etc and have 50+ offers from every school in the country? A national all-star team is going to beat a local all-star team, by a good margin I would guess.

The whole state? Indiana as a whole has what, 5-6 guys a class who will play and contribute at major college football programs? Nearly all of IMG's entire 2 deep will have committable P5 offers (multiple) when all said and done. There will be guys standing on the sideline at IMG who won't play until the second half that will commit to SEC and B10 schools by the time they graduate.

Well in that case it's already a win for BD lol!

Beating IMG and winning the 6A title aren't mutually exclusively. You could take the top 70 players in Indiana, form an all-star team, and they still wouldn't come within 3 TDs of IMG. The talent disparity between IMG and Indiana, let alone just Ben Davis, is on a different planet.

I know there are certain high school state athletic associations who have barred their teams from playing schools like IMG for this exact purpose, Georgia specifically. I think Texas in another.

I think if Ben Davis can muster more than 100 yards of total offense and/or score (while IMG still has their 1st/2nd team in) that's something they can always hang their hat on. This game has 42/49-0 nothing at half written all over it with IMG deciding how professional they are in the second half. I think the biggest win for Ben Davis would be IMG leaving town without poaching someone like Mark Zackery for next year.

I’m aware. Why was it scheduled?

Just scoured through On3 recruiting rankings and for the life of me cannot figure out why this game is being played. IMG currently has 10 seniors who are 4 and 5* recruits and another 8 juniors who are either 4 or 5* in their respective classes. I stopped looking at recruits ranked past 300 nationally but would imagine there's at least another 10-15 kids in both the 2024 and 2025 classes who hold committable offers to more than at least 1 P5 school. Ben Davis has one kid, Mark Zackery a JR, who is rated in the top 1000 nationally (171 in the class of 2025) in either class who I'm guessing would be a special teams player at IMG at this point in his career. Is this game being televised?

My guess is for the sports that play multiple times a week you'll see extended trips. Say USC basketball is playing Rutgers in Piscataway on Thursday night, they'll be scheduled to play a school like Penn State or Maryland that Sat/Sun. Same when teams go out west. Purdue would play Oregon and Washington back to back before heading back East. I get it's a pain, but with the new TV deal that's worth almost $100mil/yr, they can definitely pull it off.

And will stand pat until the NCAA comes out and says you must be a conference member to make the playoffs and/or NBC pulls the plug on their exclusive media deal.