11/25/2023 – Michigan 30, Ohio State 24 – 12-0, 9-0 Big Ten, Big Ten East Champs Shrek was nude, erect, and prodigious. This did not phase me. I am a member of the Oregon Trail generation. When the guy who posted this at me was still in the womb I was casually scrolling past goatse and lemonparty. There is only one image on the internet that has ever shook me. I will not say what it is, and I have not seen it in fifteen years. Turgid Shrek is nothing compared to it. It goes without saying that this happened on Twitter, which was already a cesspool before Elon Musk took it over. It was already a cesspool before Ohio State's PI firm spun the Connor Stalions stuff into the Worst Scandal In College Football History™ and Tony Petitti took the bait. Combine these two events and you get the last month of the season, the most hellish one imaginable when your very excellent football team is heading for an undefeated matchup in the greatest rivalry in sports. The context is this: some
What's this? Why no UFR? YouTube just implemented a daily limit of video uploads unless you've gone through a verification process that they have a 24 hour turnaround on. So it'll have to be tomorrow. Instead: this. Hooray! Seems like everything has happened. I haven't put up one of these posts this week because there hasn't been much to talk about. It seems like everything bad has been reported, more or less, and that the Harbaugh suspension is the only thing that's happening before the NCAA issues a ruling in 2026. There's a hearing Friday as Michigan seeks to get its temporary restraining order, which I am not qualified to opine about the likelihood of. You seem to get wildly different takes from the various law-talking guys out there. As far as the NCAA stuff is concerned. It still seems clear that Stalions was operating on his own. Or, at least, it's clear there's no evidence tying anyone else into Stalions's scheme. Michigan set a
And then it was fine? Yesterday I laid out what I thought was the most likely scenario in which the NCAA did something of significant consequence to Michigan: leverage the new head coach responsibility bylaw to drop a show cause on Jim Harbaugh for stuff Connor Stalions did. IMO, this is still a concern, but it looks like less of one now that ~all paysites are reporting that whatever roadblocks this investigation had put up towards Harbaugh's new contract are gone: There are currently no roadblocks between Michigan and Jim Harbaugh to get a deal done. What we know, and what we don't, about how the university plans to proceed with extension talks. Details: https://t.co/J3i6wWGvzL Josh Henschke (@JoshHenschke) October 31, 2023 Henschke followed that up with a tweet saying that there is "some hypothesizing that the contract will likely mean Michigan is Jim Harbaugh's last job." For his part, Sam Webb posted an article headlined "Harbaugh extension process n