Question: Is the Sharing of a Team’s Signals with Other Teams “Poor Sportsmanship?”

Asking for a friend: assuming the story is true that Ohio State and Rutgers shared Michigan’s signals with Purdue before the Big Ten Championship game last year, is that poor sportsmanship in the eyes of the Big Ten?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38843207/michigan-says-rutgers-ohio-state-purdue-shared-signs

Again, SU says that Michigan should be penalized by the NCAA for on site videotaping of other teams’ signals. Case closed. But as I am sure we will continue to learn in the days ahead that stealing signals is a sport unto itself in college football, is it poor sportsmanship for teams to share one team’s signals with another team that they are about to face? Or is that just business as usual in the Big Ten and other power conferences where teams do each other favors? Perhaps Ohio State and Rutgers were motivated given their knowledge of what Michigan was doing to them? Could very well be. SU does not know what is common practice among teams. It sounds like the sharing of teams’ signals goes on all over the place.

But where does the NCAA draw the line on this then? Or the Big Ten Commissioner?

The Mets got a great hire for their new manager in Carlos Mendoza. Good for them. He is highly regarded in MLB. Meanwhile, Hal Steinbrenner met with the media today and everyone he talked to said that he had to retain Aaron Boone. SU predicted this long ago. But… he did speak with Nick Swisher and he said that the Yankees should bunt more so look for that in 2024! No doubt Giancarlo Stanton is working on that now in his backyard. I know I am excited for next season!

2 thoughts on “Question: Is the Sharing of a Team’s Signals with Other Teams “Poor Sportsmanship?””

  1. Right. And if it’s so common out there that teams can decipher the opponent’s signals, when do you make the adjustments? I know that Michigan is always better in the 2nd half. I wonder if they change up the signals at half-time? And do other teams do that as well? I think the major college coaches are being tight-lipped about how successful they are at stealing those signs. It does feel like the NCAA should mandate the telephonic helmets that we see in the NFL. This is an easy fix and will hopefully work better than the NILs.

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