Impressive: USC dropped in the rankings after each of their last five games (including the three wins!) but are still in the top 25.
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āMaserati Marvā should never be uttered again, but Honda Mccord" is an all-time great nickname!
and thatās just a footnote for them this year
Itās nice to see Lincoln Riley working out at USC about as I thought he would. Only thing I got wrong was thinking thereād be an early season embarrassing loss to someone like Oregon State last year.
Pete Carroll was an anomaly going back to the time I was born. It is nowhere near the easiest school to win at.
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Dumbass Michigan mustāve scouted USC instead of TCU last year during conference championship weekend.
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Scouting doesnāt matter when you throw two pick 6s and the refs steal a TD from you
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https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1716653647629836567
The old public Venmo transaction strikes yet again.
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There was a brief moment on Saturday with Illinois up 14-0 at halftime at home on Homecoming to Wisconsin and Iowa was being Iowa, when I actually thought Illinois might have a chance to win the B1G West this year. Then the 4th quarter happened. The good thing about being an Illini fan is that those positive moments are brief and donāt cloud your thinking to the reality of the situation.
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Are staffers and interns not allowed to make bets?
https://twitter.com/TomOrr4/status/1716618941554966738
There is a long Youtube video in the comments discussing this. Basically, the guy in charge of stealing signs is on the sidelines next to the DC and OC (when OSU is on O and D respectively). Also, someone (not Stallions) is holding a piece of paper that appears to have images of hand signals, which Reddit speculators claim may be his cheat sheet showing what the OSU signals mean.
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iāve researched the sign āstealingā thing virtually not at all, but is there something nefarious in it? or is it just that Michigan paid an intern to fly around and watch more live games than everyone else, and itās somehow now an issue?
Sort of (although it seems like it was more than one intern). NCAA added a rule years ago that you are not allowed to do in person scouting of other teams (supposedly for cost saving reasons). So while stealing signs is allowed, the method UM used is explicitly forbidden (and it seems most other teams did follow the rule) - in this respect itās pretty much identical to Spygate.
Its a perfect college football thing in that the rules are very weird and archaic, Standard Operating Procedure is likely that everyone does something like this, and everyone gets to have selective outrage depending on who it is that gets caught.
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interesting. i had no idea that was against the rules. i assume to try and limit the advantage of giant programs over smaller onesā¦
basically sign stealing is sort of against the rules but people do it but thereās limits on how far you can go doing that and michigan just got caught crossing the line.
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Maybe? Probably? The Um staffer didnāt go to any of these games and the wording is super weird. Would agree it 100% breaks the spirit of the rule, maybe, probably breaks the actual rule?
Itās not even that. The analyst paid for at least tickets for other people to watch, and probably record, signals. No actual confirmed paper trail to anyone at the school yet
LOL is this argument supposed to be that the staffer himself did no attend the games but instead purchased the tickets and directed / paid ānon-affiliatedā people to attend and perform the scouting / recording on his behalf? For hilarityās sake I hope UM goes all-in on that defense.
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Itās whatever the ncaa decides so uhhh good luck with that