After the dramatic come-from-behind victory over USC, 27-24, I continue to hear a lot of negativity and complaining from the Michigan fan base. In my opinion, Wolverine Fans need a reality check and I’m here to provide some for you:
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This is what I think happened at Ohio State:
1) Ohio State paid players under the table for decades, which gave them a huge unfair advantage against Big Ten teams, allowing them to dominate the conference for years.
2) Ohio State hired one of the most decadent, corrupt coaches
Dear Tony Petitti, Alan Haller, every Big Ten coach, every Big Ten athletic director and every member of the other Big Ten fan bases:
I do not forgive you and I will never forget what you put the
@UMichFootball
through this year. I will not get over this and time will not heal
After a tough loss in the Fiesta Bowl, here are 10 reasons for optimism for Wolverine Fans (a thread):
1.
@UMichFootball
roster has been elevated substantially over the past 3-4 seasons. The 2023 Michigan Football roster will be as talented or more talented than 2022 roster.
Crazy, so Illinois and Ryan Walters stole Michigan's signals last year, but it was "OK" to do that. Michigan perpetrated the "greatest cheating scandal in the history of college football", but Illinois and Ryan Walters/Bret Bielema are squeaky clean and "above reproach". Sounds
I re-watched the first half of the Alabama-Auburn game today (similar playing surface to Rose Bowl). The upcoming Rose Bowl is going to be a tough game, but the 2023 Michigan team matches up well with the 2023 Alabama team. Here are some thoughts:
1. The Alabama defense has
BREAKING NEWS: Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti has officially entered the Transfer Portal.
After a rocky 1st season and realizing that he has overseen one of the worst PR nightmares of the last 25 years in sports, Mr. Petitti is reportedly seeking to return to a sport that he
@BruceFeldmanCFB
Because the Wakey Leaks didn't threaten the fragile self-esteem of the Ohio State Buckeye fan base that claims the Big Ten as its property and never thought that anyone would actually challenge as the top football program in the conference. Because of all of their illegal paying
It's hilarious to me how the national media is hating on J.J. McCarthy. Now they are discussing the Rose Bowl as if Alabama has the much better quarterback and questioning how
@UMichFootball
is going to be able to make up this obvious disparity with Milroe being much better than
And if we were carrying this forward like Buckeye fans and Tennessee fans, then Illinois having our signals caused Blake Corum to get injured likely robbing him of a Heisman trophy and robbing Michigan of a victory over TCU. Am I doing this right?
@sgreen34345
We demand justice! Brian Hartline should be given an order of show cause and a bunch of legal jargon and big words and a bunch of other punishments immediately. Hammer is coming down!
Keon Sabb was outstanding in both the Rose Bowl and the National Championship game. This kid has the potential to be an all-American TGP player next season.
#goblue
I don’t mean to pick on Coach Barnett but he sure steps into something controversial here.
In his answer he compliments Indiana for their sign-stealing prowess almost gushing with praise for their well-known talent for sign-stealing. He indicates that this is well-known by all
Having a moment of reflection at JFK airport. I remember well this Michigan-Washington game from September 2021. I had a great time conversing with Washington Husky fans before the game. Half of them were defending their coach Jimmy Lake and the other half were not. I was
Translation, "So it has now been proven that the whole thing from the beginning was a PsyOp, a witch hunt, a hit job to take down
@UMichFootball
and we are going to begin the public apology tour."
As Warren Buffett said, “Only when the tide goes out do you learn who has been
From The Athletic — NCAA President Charlie Baker puts the stamp of approval on Michigan's title as "won fair and square." Second biggest loss of the year for at least a couple rival fan bases ...
5.Santa Ono is a distinct upgrade over Mark Schlissel at President and is helping upgrade the NIL game at
@UMich
and overall visibility and status of the
@UMichAthletics
department.
@UMichFootball
has defeated every other Big Ten team over the past 2 seasons and has a combined Big Ten record of 19-1 since 2020, including back-to-back Big Ten championships.
#GoBlue
I will never again root for any Big Ten team other than Michigan in any sport. I have seen the error of my ways.
I am currently rooting for Dayton in their Men's basketball game against Northwestern.
"We're not bringing a knife to a gun fight," a source told ESPN on Wednesday night.
This is one of the most satisfying moments that I have ever had as a Michigan fan and Michigan alum.
The ridiculous narrative is crumbling.
Funny, now that it's been proven that Michigan didn't really gain any advantage from in-person advance scouting,
@espn
isn't really discussing Michigan at all. It's almost like they had an agenda and were overblowing an extremely minor issue, instead of actually reporting the
A special message filled with love for all of the other 13 members of the current
@B1Gfootball
conference, especially those coaches interviewed by
@BruceFeldmanCFB
of the Athletic over the past few weeks. Extra special mention for Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller and
3.
@UMichFootball
has raised its ceiling and broken through the CFP oligopoly that existed through 2021 with Alabama, Georgia, Clemson and Ohio State. Michigan is back again as one of the elite programs in college football, without any question, by any way that can be measured.
Ohio State is a filthy, dirty football program that breaks every rule in the book in order to win. They wrote the book on cheating in college football.
Just imagine how scared Urban Meyer is right now, knowing that all of the dirt on his tenure at Ohio State could be exposed over the next few days or weeks.
Isn't it ironic that
@UMichFootball
and
@OhioStateFB
have played about the same exact schedule except for the Notre Dame game (although UNLV may be about equivalent to Notre Dame this year, based on the eye test), yet Ohio State football fans (who don't really watch a lot of
4. Jim Harbaugh and the
@UMichFootball
coaching staff have proven to be quite adept with the transfer portal, filling needs and adding talent at important open spots.
9.With an expanded playoff beginning in 2024,
@UMichFootball
will be in the college football playoff conversation every single season as at least 3 Big Ten teams will be invited each year.
#GoBlue
I have never witnessed a fan base more supremely confident before a game than the Alabama fans. I spoke to over 100 of them before the Rose Bowl and not a single one would give Michigan even a 5% chance of winning the game.
That combined with a month of
@espn
“experts” picking
This decision by Tony Petitti solidifies what I learned in my professional career, a long time ago:
An Ivy League education does not guarantee that person is good at managing, leading or making good decisions. In fact, in many cases, the opposite is true.
10.
@UMichFootball
has created a gap between itself and most of the other Big Ten football programs, with the exceptions of Ohio State and Penn State. This gap did not exist just a couple of seasons ago.
#GoBlue
7.
@UMichFootball
has eliminated a sizeable talent gap that existed between Michigan and Ohio State over the past 5-8 seasons and is pretty much at par with the Buckeyes in the aggregate.
#GoBlue
@FrankD_419
Buckeye fans have no idea the fallout from 50 + years of Buckeyes cheating by paying players under the table. From the 1960's through Terrelle Pryor, Justin Fields and hundreds of others. You are a permanent stain on the Big Ten conference with your sewer of dirty money that
Hey remember that time that all of the Big Ten teams tried to gang up on
@UMichFootball
to make up some fairy tale about how Michigan Football was only good because they cheated and that Jim Harbaugh should be suspended for not even doing anything wrong and they cried and whined
The
@UMichFootball
victory at Happy Valley is the single-most impressive win in college football in 2023. No team has had to overcome anywhere the adversity that the Michigan Wolverines had to overcome in this game. They stole our signs. They stole our coach.
Let's Go Blue!!
Stat of the game from the Michigan-Ohio State game:
TreVeyon Henderson's longest run of the game was 8 yards, averaging 3.2 yards per carry.
The Michigan defense is # 1 in the country. Period.
The
@bigten
Conference needs to suspend Fran McCaffery under the sportsmanship clause permanently. The way this guy has conducted himself for years is an embarrassment to his players, the University of Iowa, the Big Ten conference and all of intercollegiate athletics. How is he
@bruce_anders5
@UMichFootball
So you're in favor of everyone being guilty until proven innocent. What happens when we find out that the majority of the Big Ten teams also regularly do in-person advance scouting and have grainy cell-phone videos of future opponents? Actually, what if I just produce venmo
@RossDellenger
Don’t worry. We don’t mind that everyone stole our signs. It’s the collusion and failed Coup attempt and PsyOp by the national media that kind of bothers us a bit, though.
Ryan Day and
@OhioStateFB
really conducted the greatest example of Gaslighting in the history of college football. And all of the national media fell for it, hook, line and sinker.
Turns out it has always been Jim Knowles and Ryan Day who are obsessed with sign-stealing and
Maybe it was because I was watching on television while cooking dinner, but J.J. McCarthy didn't really seem like himself tonight. He looked like someone who is struggling with a big decision, which makes sense - because he is.
#GoBlue
@TJ_Pittinger
@brianhartline
@vvsTUSS
Death penalty. All coaches should be suspended immediately and indefinitely by Tony Petitti. This is egregious. Literally the worst cheating scandal in the history of American sports
@Birm
Ohio State is the dirtiest, filthiest football program in the history of the Big Ten conference and it’s not even close. Everyone knows this. Every team in the Big Ten conference has known about their cheating for years. Paying players under the table since before the Ford
@Johnubacon
My hunch is that this was Angelique Chengelis of the Detroit News and the source is probably one of Jim Harbaugh's attorneys. This certainly doesn't look good and it just makes this whole scenario less palatable. I'm definitely sad tonight.
Ohio State fans calling Michigan cheaters is analogous to a serial killer calling someone who got a parking ticket a “criminal”.
Ohio State wrote the book on cheating in college football.
@NickSpencer7
@UMichFootball
We know! That's why they initiated the whole hare-brained plot from the beginning. Hiring the PI firm, stirring up the PsyOp, forming an angry mob, browbeating the commissioner. I get it. When you win 30 Big Ten games in a row, they're scared of you!
So SEC fans, since you keep saying that Missouri would win the Big Ten because Big Ten defenses are only good because Big Ten offenses are so bad -- is this the Missouri team or is it some other Missouri team?
If Ohio State loses to Michigan for a 3rd straight season, there is a better than 50/50 chance that Ohio State will fire Ryan Day.
Ryan Day knows this and he is desperate. He will do anything and everything to keep his job. There is plenty of motive for him to be behind the
I mean, the fake outrage from the coaches and AD's around the Big Ten, combined with this feckless new commissioner has led to this. Quickly, this has turned into one of the craziest sports stories that I have ever seen. I cannot see how this ends well for Tony Petitti and the
@JimboPete6
You need to add that they should be banned from post-season play, have all wins vacated and all coaches should be immediately fired as this is the greatest cheating scandal in the history of sports
Ohio State has been cheating rampantly in its football program for my entire life, primarily by paying their best players. I’m 54 years old. That’s my entire tweet.