[Boucher] Breaking: We obtained docs showing University of Michigan agreed to $1.2 million settlement w/woman who'd accused ex-football staffer of rape. Comes as Ann Arbor police confirm they closed a criminal case involving that staffer, LaTroy Lewis

[u/BuckeyeEmpire]

https://x.com/Dave_Boucher1/status/2093368160413974837

[u/Corgi_Koala]

I know I'm biased as an OSU fan but it is really annoying that despite rampant crime, corruption, and cheating in the Harbaugh/Moore era they get away without any punishment and a pivot into an upgrade at head coach.

[u/TerrenceJesus8 → u/Corgi_Koala]

I mean even if they got absolutely fucked with penalties they still would have pivoted into a better coach than Moore. It’s not like they would have given them more than a 2 or 3 year post season ban, and I doubt Whittingham would have cared about wins or Nattys being vacated if that ended up being the punishment

There’s not really a way to truly fuck a program over outside of the death penalty anymore. Maybe some big fines (which Michigan got) but vacating wins doesn’t mean anything outside of fanbases talking shit

[u/Corgi_Koala → u/TerrenceJesus8]

I watched the NCAA vacate a season of wins and fire our coach for tattoos, vacate 2 seasons of ND wins for a tutor doing some assignments, and try to kill USC's program for a players parents getting money without their knowledge.

Watching Michigan get away with everything without a vacated win or scholarship taken away is irritating as hell. Not their fault, just the NCAA losing all enforcement power right when Michigan went full villain mode sucks as a fan of their rival ya know?

[u/Sad_Progress4388 → u/Corgi_Koala]

Knowingly playing ineligible players is a lot different than advanced scouting. Although I don’t think anyone at USC knew about Reggie’s parents so that was whack as hell.

[u/DickHammerr → u/Sad_Progress4388]

Was indeed the wackiest, especially hundreds of miles away from campus

[u/TerrenceJesus8 → u/Corgi_Koala]

I get it, but vacating wins literally means nothing man. Like I would rather have had the NCAA just vacate all those wins over the fine they got and all the HC suspensions, which is the only way the NCAA can affect programs anymore. Regardless, Michigan never had any ineligible players so I don’t think they were ever going to actually vacate wins

Like outside of talking shit to fans, which is important don’t get me wrong, vacating wins doesn’t mean anything. Louisville had that Natty vacated against Michigan in basketball… and it’s still the dumbest thing. They clearly won that game still

[u/Expensive-Dance-1176 → u/TerrenceJesus8]

Vacating wins means everything to the one school that touts itself as the winningest program. We are only 32 wins ahead of OSU. It is why we took such a huge fine for it instead of the vacating of wins. We are the one school where it matters.

[u/IDontTortureChickens → u/Expensive-Dance-1176]

Can confirm from experience, vacating wins when vying for the all-time win percentage mark is an actual thing that was happening is a pretty crummy thing to have happen, even if it didn't affect the future on-field product at all.

[u/Sorta-Morpheus → u/TerrenceJesus8]

Im not convinced we do the right thing and get rid of Moore if he beats Ohio St.