2025 College Offseason Reboot

[temptation]

1 minute ago, Coach Nowlin said:

He did

Saw link headline that Purdue is in the Black again, but they have had the self sufficient model for decades, which is all changing 

 

Also, Coach Walters house finally was completed, he built a 4.9 million dollar house, and didn't get to move in, and now has to try to sell that house for that price, in West Lafayette.......  Good Luck 

Saw this one the other day...

"Hey Purdue, Coach Cignetti did you a favor by getting Ryan Walters fired.  Could you re-pay the favor this weekend and have Matt Painter do the same for Mike Woodson?"

LOL.

[Coach Nowlin]

man, true trainwreck,   Your Wolverines took the brunt of the 2nd half meltdown vs OSU last week when they made them tap out 8 mins into the game.   Welcome back Dusty !!!

 

[temptation]

38 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

man, true trainwreck,   Your Wolverines took the brunt of the 2nd half meltdown vs OSU last week when they made them tap out 8 mins into the game.   Welcome back Dusty !!!

 

UGLY.

[Coach Nowlin]

Better than Coach Howard however

 

[temptation]

41 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Better than Coach Howard however

 

Zero argument there.  

[Coach Nowlin]

best part, IU folk full meltodwn because Dusty is in the B10 and not Bloomington 

 

[temptation]

1 hour ago, Coach Nowlin said:

best part, IU folk full meltodwn because Dusty is in the B10 and not Bloomington 

 

Yep...and they could have had him had they been smart and cut bait with Woodson last year.

[gonzoron]

3 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

best part, IU folk full meltodwn because Dusty is in the B10 and not Bloomington 

 

Who is Dusty?

[Coach Nowlin]

5 hours ago, gonzoron said:

Who is Dusty?

Coach Dusty May, 1st year Head Coach University of Michigan Basketball, former Bob Knight manager in the 80s, had a nice run at Florida Atlantic University 

[NorthKnox94]

12 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Coach Dusty May, 1st year Head Coach University of Michigan Basketball, former Bob Knight manager in the 80s, had a nice run at Florida Atlantic University 

Also...from Eastern Greene high school...down here in southern indiana

[Muda69]

Once a gold standard, Michigan football's response to NCAA violations shows it's just a common cheat

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2025/01/30/michigan-ncaa-allegations-response-sherrone-moore-jim-harbaugh-connor-stalions/78053836007/?tbref=hp

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The curtain has been pulled back in Ann Arbor, and one of the nation’s most respected institutions of higher education has reduced itself to a childish defense of its embattled football program. 

The NCAA: We know you cheated and how you cheated, and how it gave your football program a competitive advantage. 

Michigan: No we didn’t, and even if we did, it’s not as bad as you say it is. 

How embarrassing for hoity-toity Michigan, once the gold standard for all that was pure and holy in college athletics. 

How embarrassing for the university and storied football program, and all the proud Michigan Men of the past – the leaders and best, no less – to stand behind this legal pretzel response to NCAA allegations of scouting future opponents.

Have they no shame?

Michigan’s formal response to the NCAA’s official allegations of illegal advanced scouting and sign stealing was obtained by Yahoo Sports earlier this week, and it’s remarkably stunning in its abject disdain and mockery of the investigation. 

The Michigan response obfuscates, argues semantics, and degrades the investigatory process. All signs, any prosecutor worth his weight in all-nighters will tell you, of those who are guilty.

In the response, the university says it respects confidential sources, but the NCAA can only present evidence and infractions from former staffer Connor Stalions’ scouting scheme based on “information that can be attributed to individuals who are willing to be identified.”

At one point in the response, Michigan says Moore’s reason for deleting 52 texts – fifty-two – between himself and Stalions on the day the scouting scheme was uncovered by Yahoo in October of 2023, was that Moore was “angry” because he didn’t want one person (Stalions) credited for “all the work” put into the 2023 season.

 

The university also claims the texts, which were recovered once Moore handed over his phone to NCAA investigators, were “innocuous and not material” to the investigation. 

It’s here where I need to remind everyone that the Big Ten, in unprecedented cooperation with the NCAA during the investigation of a member institution, suspended former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh three games for the scouting scheme during the 2023 season. 

The Big Ten decided that Michigan conducted "an impermissible, in-person scouting operation over multiple years, resulting in an unfair competitive advantage that compromised the integrity of competition." Such activities, it said, compromised sportsmanship and affected the "integrity of the competition.”

The 13-page Big Ten report, which used information from NCAA investigators – pictures, video, electronic money trails – called the Michigan penalties, “A sanction against the University that, under the extraordinary circumstance presented by this offensive conduct, best fits the violation.”

Less than a year later, Michigan – 2023 national championship in hand – has moved into deny, deny, deny mode.

Because We’re Morally Better Than You Michigan can’t have an NCAA cheat as head coach. Can’t have a national championship stained by NCAA violations, or a former coach and beloved alum run out of town by the NCAA sheriff — only to take refuge in the NFL. 

Here’s all you need to know about Michigan’s impermissible future scouting scheme: Stalions allegedly use his minions — he sent friends to future opponents to film games from the stands (which Michigan denies) — to allegedly scout Georgia during the 2023 season.

That’s two-time defending national champion Georgia, which beat Michigan by 23 points in the College Football Playoff during the 2021 season. That’s Georgia, the 2023 playoff favorite — and Michigan’s biggest obstacle to winning its first national championship since 1997.

Georgia wasn’t even on Michigan’s 2023 regular-season schedule.

If that doesn’t do it for you, think about what Michigan is truly trying to sell with this utterly comical response to the NCAA.

We’re supposed to believe that Harbaugh, an obsessively organized and detailed coach, who controlled everything in nine seasons and more than 100 games at Ann Arbor, didn’t ever think to ask what in the blue blazes Stalions was doing in coaches meetings, and on the field during game day. 

Harbaugh isn’t going to stand on the sideline against Ohio State – the team he famously said Michigan would finally beat or die trying – and allow some flunky with an advance scouting scheme on his sideline without knowing everything about that system.

You say system, I say scheme.

Harbaugh isn't going to accept, willy-nilly, where that scheme came from, how it operates, and if it wasn’t double- and triple-checked, before even contemplating changing a call mid-game in the biggest moment of every single season. There’s a level of trust that’s undeniable on the field of play.

You’re not simply relying on word of mouth, or an understanding of generalities. Nothing is left to guess.

Not when you’re playing Ohio State. Not when you’re trying to win it all.

If you think Harbaugh – and by proxy, the rest of the coaching staff – didn’t know exactly how Stalions received his information and what it took to get it, your blood runs Maize and Blue.

No coach at any program allows anyone on the sideline – within the inner sanctum of the coaches and players box – without knowing exactly why they’re inside, and what they do to contribute to winning. Period.

Because that’s all it’s about in big-time college football: winning. And there’s nothing wrong with that. 

Just don’t try to sell it as something else when you’re caught cheating. 

How sad for the Champions of the West. 

[Bobref]

1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

Once a gold standard, Michigan football's response to NCAA violations shows it's just a common cheat

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2025/01/30/michigan-ncaa-allegations-response-sherrone-moore-jim-harbaugh-connor-stalions/78053836007/?tbref=hp

How sad for the Champions of the West. 

I have my popcorn ready. Going to sit down and watch @temptation and @Muda69 go at it.

[Coach Nowlin]

54 minutes ago, Bobref said:

I have my popcorn ready. Going to sit down and watch @temptation and @Muda69 go at it.

nah,  Temp is gonna sit this one out. no chance 

[temptation]

1 hour ago, Coach Nowlin said:

nah,  Temp is gonna sit this one out. no chance 

The data doesn't lie...

[Sparty]

Watching Ryan Day swing a bat at OSU SB practice, then subsequently running to 1st base, is the laugh I needed this morning.  

[temptation]

In honor of NSD, I present to you 247’s team rankings for 2025…

https://247sports.com/season/2025-football/compositeteamrankings/

[Coach Nowlin]

we all can agree the old day of NSD was almost a holiday for some of us,  my brother and I would clear the day and just watch it all unfold.......    sad 

 

same wiht old school NFL draft... Saturday morning...... pure bliss 

[Bash Riprock]

2 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

we all can agree the old day of NSD was almost a holiday for some of us,  my brother and I would clear the day and just watch it all unfold.......    sad 

 

same wiht old school NFL draft... Saturday morning...... pure bliss 

So much luster lost with the portal.....who you sign with matters less and less...its who you end up with as an upper classmen (assuming production)

[Coach Nowlin]

I will say, I enjoyed the Coach Odom presser yesterday, it was professional and to the point, no fancy slogans.   I can get behind that 

[temptation]

I definitely played hookie on NSD a couple of times.

[Coach Nowlin]

 

 

 

[Coach Nowlin]

Matt Patricia is an interesting hire for DC in Columbus 

[Bash Riprock]

1 hour ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Matt Patricia is an interesting hire for DC in Columbus 

Guess I didn't realize he was out of the pro game

[Coach Nowlin]

Yes last it was in 2023 as a defensive analysis for Philadelphia    I don't think he was on anybody's payroll last year

[temptation]

19 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Matt Patricia is an interesting hire for DC in Columbus 

I love the hire...most Lions fans who are also Michigan fans do as well...