There is no way you take anyone's statement at face value if the information he is offering is something nobody on the staff can provide but just this one guy, who is a nobody with respect to the coaching capabilities. As a coach I would be extremely suspicious, and asking questions... otherwise you are complicit.
And he is the only one on the Michigan staff that is smart enough to figure this out from just game film? That's not suspicious to any of the coaches? Common.
That’s what they are paying him in part for. He said he had a system figured out and it showed that it worked. People come from all over in sports with crazy new ideas all the time. From schemes, to money ball to Ivy League grads inventing the shift in baseball to the dominance of the 3pt shot. All teams are looking for an edge so if this guy has cracked some code from tv (we now know it’s not from tv) that the other coaches weren’t looking at due to time or any other reason it stands that you bring the guy on in a limited capacity. That’s why he’s a junior staffer making 55K and not higher in the org chart.
Bottom line is Michigan had an employee that was cheating to gain an unfair advantage. I don't know if it's good for Michigan that they had the football equivalent of the Unabomber on their sideline and didn't know it, but either way they cheated.
Don’t disagree with any of this. Rules were still broken, how wide spread the knowledge was of rules being broken is what is going to determine the punishment if any.
Well, if it started off with him coming in a being good at doing it by legal means and then he starts doing what he was doing and just gets a little better, what raises a flag?
If he was good by using legal means then why change to cheating? If he was good by legal means then why not hire him until this year? He was a volunteer since 2015. Doesn’t make sense. What makes sense is that he wasn’t good by legal means and then to get the edge he resorts to cheating. Then all of a sudden he is getting good info by cheating, gets hired, but nobody questions how he is getting all of this info because some of the coaching staff probably suspect there is something shady. And they don’t want to ask because if they don’t know how he is getting the info they can claim plausible deniability. Otherwise they have to stop it and lose the info or they would be involved too and can be in trouble as well.
Do you know his success rate? What was it out of curiosity?
Of course not, just like everyone else. I never claimed it as a fact. I think it’s pretty obvious I am just giving my opinion on what I think likely happened based on what was reported so far.
Except that is not at all how it works in reality regarding NCAA decisions so it’s just a thing to say at this point.
No amount of scouting is going to prevent you from taking 2 Pick 6's and dropping it on the 1 yard line.
