Awful time to be a Michigan

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Anonymous wrote:4 years ago the PRESIDENT of U of Mich was fired due to an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. And the school survived. I think they will be able to handle losing a mediocre football coach.

Oh, definitely.

The real question is how quickly they (or any other big sports program) would have taken decisive action if it had been an incredibly successful coach.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually thought this was going to be about all the snow Michigan has been getting lately…

I started a thread like that once. It didn't go over well.

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I would love to see a pretty big team hire a football coach for, say, 650k a year. There would be no shortage of great coaches willing to take these jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:The school has known since at least Dec 1. Tons of social media posts in early Sec alluding to this. They are waiting for recruits to sign. Shameful.

Plus 1

Known what? He was cheating on wife? School doesn’t care until you start doing crazy things like threatening to kill people.

If he impregnated a 22 year old Michigan staffer, that’s an extreme power imbalance, and if he tried to coerce her to take Plan B and the school was informed, I can see why they felt the need to take action. Additionally, if he threatened to kill himself and the 22 year old upon being fired, it sounds like he’s not mentally stable. Who knows what other signs of mental instability there were.

Yes, he deserved to be fired. But this is hardly scandalous. Older wealthy man cheats and wife and with younger woman, she gets pregnant
(as expected). Same story told over and over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents with to Michigan, I went to NU and honestly I think our scandal was worse because it was a longstanding culture of player abuse (at freaking Northwestern, a school that sucks at football). This guy obviously sucks but one guy cheating on his wife and having a meltdown after getting swiftly fired doesn't suggest systemic problems with the football program like other scandals have.

Omg the Fitz thing was a woke writer at the Daily. And a bitter transfer player who wasn’t any good.

Stop it. The university paid him $112 million because they wrongfully terminated him and they found no wrongdoing.

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Coach was arrested.

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Anonymous wrote:I sort of figure that a third to half of the people playing football at a serious level are sociopaths. Anyone who looks to football players for any moral leadership are highly likely to be disappointed.
I don’t see how this affects the academics of a school.

Sorry you didn't make the team.

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Anonymous wrote:alum and fan. Feel sorry for Sherrone Moore's wife, children, and the victim. This is beyond shocking and way surpasses what Mel Tucker did at Michigan State. Dude just torpedoed his life. What an unbelievable fall from grace. What a scandal that likely will get uglier as more details come to light in the next few days.

Given the sizable contingent of folks here who dislike Michigan, feel free to take your shots at the school. We deserve it.

Does this mean they will no longer charge private oos tuition for a factory, rust belt school?

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I don't care that he cheated on his wife. Its low class but common af.

Biggest head scratcher is not being set for life after getting paid 6 million.

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Maybe the whole scheme was concocted by ND to take the heat off of its AD and football program.

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Dang - Michigan has a history of disgusting coaches

Matt Weiss was fired in 2023 as Michigan's co-offensive coordinator. From 2015 to 2023, Weiss allegedly gained access to the databases of more than 100 colleges and universities that were maintained by a third-party vendor, Keffer Development Services, and then downloaded personal information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes, the indictment states.

He then got access to the social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 athletes as well as more than 1,300 students or alumni from schools across the country, according to the indictment.

'Weiss primarily targeted female college athletes," the indictment said. "He researched and targeted these women based on their school affiliation, athletic history and physical characteristics. His goal was to obtain private photographs and videos never intended to be shared beyond intimate partners."

Weiss kept notes on photos and videos that he downloaded, commenting on the bodies and sexual preferences and sometimes returning years later to look for new images, the indictment said.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents with to Michigan, I went to NU and honestly I think our scandal was worse because it was a longstanding culture of player abuse (at freaking Northwestern, a school that sucks at football). This guy obviously sucks but one guy cheating on his wife and having a meltdown after getting swiftly fired doesn't suggest systemic problems with the football program like other scandals have.

Omg the Fitz thing was a woke writer at the Daily. And a bitter transfer player who wasn’t any good.

Stop it. The university paid him $112 million because they wrongfully terminated him and they found no wrongdoing.

No, they just couldn't prove he condoned or directed it. But they did show it occurred and if a head coach isn't aware of years and years of abuse in his locker room, then he deserves to be fired for being completely incompetent anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened? I saw inappropriate relationship with a staff member. A staff member is of legal age I would assume. He’s married. But- jail? Is it rape? M not following.

He was caught cheating; on his wife OMFG !!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I think the fact he was paid $6 million a year to coach college football is more of a scandal than his cheating on his wife with some staffer.

That's not an unusual salary at all. In almost every state, the highest paid state employee is the head football or basketball coach of the flagship university.

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The University of Michigan is now a synonym for cheating.