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2023 tCun Shenanigans, Arguments, Cobras, Feckless Marmots, Fake Pandas, Dirty Cheaters

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NFBuck said:
This is what most of them are clinging to and is so absurd I can hardly imagine the thinking. This is simple addition. scUM was am underachieving program that bottomed out in 2020. Point 1 - Simple Jim finds himself on the hotseat and fails to attract NFL interest. Suddenly in 2021, they start winning. Point 2 - On numerous occasions since 2021, scUM finds themselves in close games, then suddenly come out and blow the opponents doors off in the second half. To wit, they need the first half to verify their scouting before implementing in half two. Point 3 - TCU is a program they would not have scouted as they were never going to be an opponent. Suddenly they are an opponent and scUM has no answer for them.

It's a mountain of evidence against them, but being the DFBIA, they just ignore all of the above and cling to "The Staff didn't know! It was a rogue agent (probably mentally disabled)!" This is going to be glorious. Just fucking glorious.
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The staffer could start just throwing Harbaugh and crew under the bus with all the facts he has and they would probably be claiming that the B1G! paid the guy to slander Harbaughs good name!
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
There is no reason why. If he did it on his own, why would the coaches suddenly just start seriously taking pointers from some nobody low leveler? They wouldn't, The coaching staff 100% has to be in the loop.

DFBIA is screaming for "FAX AND EVIDENTS!" but it's just fucking basic common sense here.

I feel all the evidence we need will come out though, with how careless this kid looks about how he went about all of this. Also great chance the guy just starts throwing everyone under the bus too as well.
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Harbaugh’s turnaround from mediocre to elite just happened to line up EXACTLY with the start of this rogue staffer cheating, a year after they were 2-4… in his 7th season.
 
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Poe McKnoe said:
Unless he’s just the Big Ten’s #1 super fan wanting to share his love of the game with his friends, the only source of the funds to attend this many games at away stadiums, especially those like Penn State @ Ohio State, is UM’s football recruiting budget.
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I said earlier and I think there’s a decent chance it’s actually true: they could have just diverted the booster funding they were previously using to take international team vacations that they stopped doing after COVID.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Sorry, there is ZERO fucking plausible deniability here. Any reasonable person would wonder where this no-name $55k/year staffer got this golden information and would due diligence to make sure it is legit. The fact that the coaching staffed relied on this information is in and of itself an indictment of the entire program. There is no "this guy gave us impeccable intel, but we had no idea where it came from!" defense. That's a load of horseshit.

Burn the fucking program down.
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The plausible deniability thing is a complete straw man.

There is video evidence (apparently) of a tsun employee breaking a 30+ year old rule and supporting evidence that he's done it on a consistent, wide spread basis.

The DFBIA guy who fumbled in the dark around the idea of a code of conduct is dead on the money.

They are getting hammered for this one. All the NCAA needs is a smoking gun and it's been handed to them along with the shooters drivers license that was left at the scene in the dead man's hand.

:lol:
 
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Jaxbuck said:
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Me either, friendo. The deeper I get into that thread, I find myself hyperventilating. My dog's looking at me like I'm a fucking nutter.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
I said earlier and I think there’s a decent chance it’s actually true: they could have just diverted the booster funding they were previously using to take international team vacations that they stopped doing after COVID.
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I don’t think it even has to be booster direct funding.

www.mlive.com

Michigan football topped Big Ten in recruiting expenses in 2022, report finds

The Wolverines topped the usual No. 1, Penn State, and spent more than twice as much as in-state rival Michigan State.
www.mlive.com www.mlive.com

Where some schools’ recruiting budgets buy strip club visits and dildos, others are likely expensing stuff like this…
 
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DaiMonMoore said:
He is a UM employee, right? I assume he needs to submit time away requests and days he is not in the office. It's a state institution so I assume this is all discoverable.
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Used to work for the Finance dept at a state University. Not in Michigan, but can't believe it's too much different. Travel expenses might be covered by a University credit card, in which case no reimbursement is needed, but all transactions are recorded and accessible and audited internally (probably by Accounts Payable, and likely a random audit, not a 100%, every transaction audited). Of course, Accounts Payable isn't going to be worrying themselves about anything other than UM travel policy. If the travel was job-related and the expense seems reasonable, it passes. If you try to buy your family tickets to Disneyworld while you're in Florida, it doesn't pass (we saw some crazy stuff).

The university credit card could be funded by regular university funds (state taxpayer monies or tuition $$) or could be funded by donations, in which case the rules for use are likely not as strict.

Or travel might be paid upfront by the traveler, then a Travel Expense Report, with receipts, is submitted for reimbursement - referencing what dept account you want to use for the reimbursement (type of funds). This requires higher up signatures, as does the application for a university credit card. Sometimes, they can get a travel advance $$, and you have to submit your paperwork before and after, again, signed by supervisors.

There should be a heavy duty record-trail, regardless. The traveler could be using a mix of these payment methods, and any investigator needs to be smart enough to ask for records related to them all. I can remember when à reporter was fishing for problems and wanted a staffer's travel expense reports - which we submitted, after a public records request. The reporter never asked for the staffer's university credit card records, which contained over half his travel expense records, and he never saw them.

If they were being really shady, they could be using a card on some private bank account, funded by who-knows-who, not tied to the University at all. Never in my many years dealing with all kinds of scenarios, did I see such a thing. This would be an enormous red - no, I'll say BLUE - flag.

Work related travel did not require a formal request for travel days, previous to travel. Of course, your supervisor needed to be aware.

So that's what I know, for whatever use it may be.
 
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Buckerooni said:
Used to work for the Finance dept at a state University. Not in Michigan, but can't believe it's too much different. Travel expenses might be covered by a University credit card, in which case no reimbursement is needed, but all transactions are recorded and accessible and audited internally (probably by Accounts Payable, and likely a random audit, not a 100%, every transaction audited). Of course, Accounts Payable isn't going to be worrying themselves about anything other than UM travel policy. If the travel was job-related and the expense seems reasonable, it passes. If you try to buy your family tickets to Disneyworld while you're in Florida, it doesn't pass (we saw some crazy stuff).

The university credit card could be funded by regular university funds (state taxpayer monies or tuition $$) or could be funded by donations, in which case the rules for use are likely not as strict.

Or travel might be paid upfront by the traveler, then a Travel Expense Report, with receipts, is submitted for reimbursement - referencing what dept account you want to use for the reimbursement (type of funds). This requires higher up signatures, as does the application for a university credit card. Sometimes, they can get a travel advance $$, and you have to submit your paperwork before and after, again, signed by supervisors.

There should be a heavy duty record-trail, regardless. The traveler could be using a mix of these payment methods, and any investigator needs to be smart enough to ask for records related to them all. I can remember when à reporter was fishing for problems and wanted a staffer's travel expense reports - which we submitted, after a public records request. The reporter never asked for the staffer's university credit card records, which contained over half his travel expense records, and he never saw them.

If they were being really shady, they could be using a card on some private bank account, funded by who-knows-who, not tied to the University at all. Never in my many years dealing with all kinds of scenarios, did I see such a thing. This would be an enormous red - no, I'll say BLUE - flag.

Work related travel did not require a formal request for travel days, previous to travel. Of course, your supervisor needed to be aware.

So that's what I know, for whatever use it may be.
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If someone is so shit all stupid as to use their real name when involved in rule breaking, I'm going to guess they would double down and leave a trail around the expense of said stupidity.

It's like the criminals who get busted trying to get the deposit back on the rental vehicle they used in committing the crime.
 
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