Rich Eisen sums up fan feelings on sign-stealing saga: 'Only answer is to go out and obliterate' upcoming opponents
The Michigan Wolverines are 8-0 on the field this season, but the program is currently wrapped up in a national storyline that involves an alleged illegal sign-stealing operation. Some people are still incredibly confused with the whirlwind of information and what is actually going on.
Michigan alum and media personality Rich Eisen is among the vast network of fans flabbergasted by what’s been in the news the last week or so. And for those looking for someone to put it into words, he just about nailed it.
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“There’s nothing to respond to except the drip, drip, drip that comes out,” Eisen said Thursday on his show. “And again, I just sit there and I read all this stuff and I’m shaking my head and I’m like, why? With all of these talented kids that I saw without this system in place, ripped out root and branch prior to the Michigan State game, destroyed them in a way that my alma mater hasn’t destroyed [them] with a kid [QB J.J. McCarthy] who is 1,000,000% talented enough to win the Heisman Trophy on his own. I don’t get it. Nor do anybody in my circle.
“It’s just like, what is happening behind the scenes? What is real? What is not? We don’t know. We’re just reading all this stuff and texting one another, ‘Okay, is this real? Is this possible? What is happening?'”
Many fans believe that the only way out of this mud and social media bluster of the situation is for the team to keep winning. Eisen shares that opinion, and essentially said “game on” as it pertains to the rest of the season.
“Hopefully, we’ll get our answers on this front at some point. But the only answer is to go out and absolutely obliterate the opposition,” he said.”Because this has been ripped out root and branch…destroy Purdue. Go into Penn State, punk them. Go into Maryland and say, ‘Yeah, this whole business of trap game, trap this.’ Every game is a trap game for us now.”
“Go into Maryland, destroy them, and have Ohio State come in. And destroy them too, because you know, all of these schools have changed up their signs and are you got a month now to prepare to change up your signs, Destroy them to go to the Big Ten championship game, destroy them, then when two more to get to 15.”
Of course, there are major questions in how severe the punishments could be for Michigan, but also in who hired the private firm to investigate the program and turn the findings over to the NCAA. Eisen is as curious about that as anyone.
“Who is the outside firm? Who paid for the outside firm?” Eisen pondered. “Why was the outside firm looking into this in the first place? It’s like a Tom Clancy novel. There are no answers and I’m shooting you straight. It is a therapy session with every single Michigan fan that I know, we’re all hoping that there’s going to be a moment where it’s not as bad as it sounds, or, or we’re on pins and needles that this is all a fact, all of it’s truthful, none of it’s an ax being ground from an outside source that hired an independent firm, and Michigan can’t say anything.”
Michigan is off this weekend before returning to action next Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. ET against the Purdue Boilermakers in Ann Arbor.
