Stop me if you've heard of this before. There's a potential scandal brewing with ties to Bobby Petrino....
ESPN: Demon Deacons investigating possible breach of game plan
Wake Forest is investigating a possible breach of its game plan prior to its game last week against Louisville after discovering documents left behind inside the stadium that showed specific plays the Demon Deacons had never run previously, a source told ESPN.com.
The breach was discovered Friday. Coach Dave Clawson said on the ACC coaches call Wednesday, "There somehow was a breach and I've shared it with our AD and we are trying to figure out what happened, and how it happened."
Clawson would not elaborate on what documents went missing.
Woah, if this is true, that's a baaaaaaaaaaaad look for everyone involved, and possibly a bad enough image to make Louisville a team that the committee purposely leaves out of the Playoff out of principle. And one has to wonder that if they were doing this against someone like Wake, what they were doing to gain the edge against Clemson and Florida State this year. Could also have potential ramifications towards Lamar Jackson's Heisman hopes as well, should the voters feel like they can't vote for a player of a team with this kind of label.
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Shocking, if true. Well, not that shocking, if true.
I think it will have no effect on anything. Most of what I've seen suggests that there is a whole lot of nothing to this.
It barely had an effect on the game.
It's even worse if they knew the entire gameplan and still struggled to beat them for the first 3 quarters. Unless that was part of the plan...
I don't think there's anything to this. How would a Wake staff member find them in Louisville's stadium?
So when does Petrino get on his motorcycle (with his secretary of course) and drive down to Baton Rouge and tell them he will coach the LSU Tigers.
Buckle-up, Buckaroo
If Orgeron manages to win his next two games to finish the season 6-1 with wins over potentially four ranked teams and his only loss to Alabama 10-0, than LSU would be chock full of stupid to look anywhere else. I unfortunately wouldn't put it past them to be Chock full though.
Orgeron should be their next head coach. But you're right, I won't put it past them to do something dumb.
It's a moot point. Petrino is way too good of a guy to try and gain an unfair advantage
To be honest, this is probably nothing. Petrino is absolute scum, but does anybody really think he needed to cheat to beat Wake Forest with Lamar Jackson?
Most likely nothing...
BUT
If there is a close race for the final spot for the playoff, this could be used as an easy out excuse and will get tossed around if the Cards are 5 or 6 in the rankings.
Bingo... the way things are settling right now, we're going to have a glut of quality teams from 2 through about 6 or 8 in the rankings, and the committee is going to look for any excuse to eliminate a team that the public will buy. If these allegations have legs, they just got their excuse to leave UofL out.
The documents being referenced were found on Friday so the Wake Coaches knew that those plays in question might be at risk before the game. If they chose to run them anyway than they knew the risk.
They sure played like doodoo for 3 and a half quarters for a team that knew the opponent's gameplan.
This begs the obligatory question: since when did Cardinals have teeth?
What a great question!
It all started 120 years ago when a mad scientist, with an affinity for bird law, wished to communicate with birds. His favorite was the cardinal, but in his madness he believed teeth to be the key to spoken human language, leaving little care for the tongue. Though his wacky frankenstein-esque terror surgery was successful in breeding a cardinal with teeth, it was unable to talk, but handy with a camcorder.
And that's why some Cardinals have teeth.
Why can I see this being some ancestor of Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny
Funny because a Bird with Teeth is from Charlie's dream book:
God damn it Charlie
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I could have sworn I was reading one of TheFifthFuller's "Foe"Rensics articles!
Speaking of which, this week's FoeRensics should be lit, fam...
Bobby Petrino is the Rick Pitino of college football. They even have -inos in their names. And they coach at the same school. Wait a minute...
Have we ruled out the possibility that some sort of slimy, cheating alien-like creature has taken the bodies of two random men, given them very similar sounding names because it is unimaginative and a cheater, and tried to take over Division 1 athletics from the inside? I mean...
It's just too perfect that they are at the same university.
For one, they don't like each other. Pitino was vocal about his displeasure when they rehired cheatin' Bobby.
But those two guys seem so much alike. Both seem like complete assholes, cheat on their wives, and are loyal only to the best opportunity. They are both incredible collegiate coaches with an impressive track record, less the fact that both did a miserable job coaching professional sports teams. Bobby was the Falcons coach for less than a season before heading to Arkansas, Pitino coached the Knicks and he ruined what was left of Red Auerbach's Celtics in the late 90s, which lingered on until the big 3. I'd say Boston still holds a grudge. Now, I am just rambling on about how much I hate Rick Pitino - but even my decrepit grandfather, a PC grad, hates his stinkin' guts.
Stop holding back and tell us what you really think. :--)
Petrino:
"It ain't cheatin..... until you wreck yer motercycle with your mistress in tow."
It does not matter how hot the chick is. Somewhere, some guy is sick of her shit.
I have faith that the NCAA will do everything in its power to investigate and punish* the school...in 5 years.
*do nothing to
Looks like the squash , rowing and badminton teams at Louisville might be in some trouble.
#SAUCES: Apparently a wake forest equipment manager found their playbook at the end of the game on their bench with a note that said "Thank you". Also apparently it didn't happen until after halftime, hence, the difference in how Louisville played in the second half. They also apparently hacked into the wake forest coaches' headsets or something involving their communication. My #sauce is pretty good, although they could have incomplete info and might be a little bias.
why would you leave a note? that just seems like a really bad idea. a playbook lying around can be explained away, a note not so much
I don't believe any of that
I don't know...I think this part is pretty believable....
Of all the things that haven't happened, that is one of the haven't happenedist.
The NCAA will come down quickly and hard on them!
I mean with the exception of UNC (multiple times), Miami (multiple times), Louisville b-ball, OU football (1990s)...never mind bad argument.Weird thing is took over a half of football for Petrino to figure out he'd been given fake plays by Clawson. Expect Petrino to file a grievance with the conference.
Perhaps L-ville should have went after Houston's game plan?!
(I saw your comment on the other thread Alum07 - I'm starting to drink early today)
This is what happens when Louisville does not have the other teams game plan.
Also, one things remains true. If I put money on a team, the opposing team will win.
Bet on Notre Dame. Take one for the team.
truly a win-win, if Notre Dame wins, you get paid