He was tracking geographical data on every single draft pick to map out recruiting hot spots. He's a lunatic who just stumbled into sign stealing.Stalions no longer has a purpose now that helmet communications is allowed.
His only job was to use illegal means to decode signals of future opponents.
To be fair, that could be done on any modern laptop in a few minutes. Might be lunacy but it's also not difficult. Also not sure how you can say he "stumbled into sign stealing" when all along we've been told his military experience led him to get his job stealing signs.
I hate it when people even bring this up ... ohio state was ready to go we weren't - that sounds like a forfeit to me.
I get that teams couldn't play games because of covid concerns (as stupid as that was, it's where we were at the time). Only problem I saw was that they had a team practice the next day. Makes no sense if you had so many covid concerns.
If you don't keep your team ready to play and the other team does - forfeit.
I mean, a coach can't keep kids from getting covid. I blame the Big Ten for their dumbass PCR rules that forced teams to not play. Again though, it made no sense that michigan wouldn't have been able to play a game Saturday because of these rules, yet they could practice the very next day?
It was in the Neflix doc. He just wanted to start into football coaching, asked the Navy coach if he could be on the team and help in some way, and they plopped him into stealing signs.
So he started the sign stealing before michigan then?
Only poor schools aren't "buying" players. A&M did nothing wrong, we were just the first to figure out the NIL rules and exploit them. Now everyone is doing it. Except the poor schools.
According to the guy who is trying to save his own skin, yes. Wonder to what extent he was "sign stealing" vs scouting game tape, and what teams would have fired him (or convinced him it was time to "move on/up").
I haven't watched the documentary because I don't have time to sit around and have smoke blown up my ass by a guy trying to get ahead of a narrative.
It still just comes down to a simple question for me. A "low level" employee who wasn't making much paid for (what we know) 58 games to be scouted. These people weren't sitting in the top row of the nosebleeds either, so we're talking thousands and thousands of dollars. It's also not like he just did this maybe 3-4 times just to see if it helped, it was dozens. He did this year after year.
And even without costs, doesn't anyone notice that a member of the staff (even scouting staff) who is never around on game day?
Yup, if I can look over at my opponent while playing madden and see what offensive play he is calling then I do a LOT better in that game.
Well that's why he hired his friends to do it, so he could be calling out every single play to the coordinator in real time. The poker analogy is pretty spot on.
