TheWolverine.com podcast: Balas and Skene on NCAA investigation of Michigan, sign stealing, more
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and his team have been under the NCAA microscope for alleged illegal on-site scouting leading to an investigation. Analyst Connor Stalions is the alleged mastermind — as of now, there’s no evidence linking Jim Harbaugh to this (per a Washington Post report), and no other coaches have been implicated.
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As Michigan alum Rich Eisen said recently and our Anthony Broome reported, there’s really only one thing for the team to do this season.
“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?’”
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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.”
TheWolverine.com’s Chris Balas and former All-Big Ten offensive lineman Doug Skene break it down.
