Talk:University of Michigan football sign-stealing scandal

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Vandalism

There are some articles on Wikipedia (notably this one, the 2023 Michigan Wolverines football team article, and the College Football Playoff National Championship article) which are being edited by trolls, such as them committing vandalism by deleting valid sourced information from the NCAA, and adding opinions from rival fanbases to the article without valid sources, which fail to maintain a neutral point of view.

I recently had information I added to this page deleted by a non-registered user. I cited valid sourced information from the NCAA, but it has been restored by another user. I’ve noticed these types of edit wars are becoming a trend on pages related to University of Michigan athletics. I don’t know if this is merely rival fans who are upset, but something should be done about this.

Don't turn this in to an edit war. If you feel so strongly that these should be added, or that some information should be removed, we can discuss it with a Wikipedia admin. But it's unlikely to be considered relevant for the reasons noted above. If it keeps happening, I'll go through the proper channels to have these pages auto-protected from unregistered users. Alex9234 (talk) 06:42, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

First ESPN article on scandal

Is this ESPN's first article on the matter? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38696639/ncaa-investigating-no-2-michigan-amid-sign-stealing-allegations Jweiss11 (talk) Jweiss11 (talk) 20:43, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article name

Cbl62: per your rename of this article, there's also University of Michigan basketball scandal, Southern Methodist University football scandal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football scandal, University of Southern California athletics scandal, University of South Carolina steroid scandal. Jweiss11 (talk) 19:35, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Jweiss11 Do you disagree with the move? I thought the move was uncontroversial, as we never refer to "University of Michigan football", but feel free to revert if you disagree. (The topic is so upsetting I have thus far avoided making any substantive edits.) Cbl62 (talk) 19:56, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're correct that we generally do not refer to "University of Michigan football" in the context of typical football articles, but you can see how we've named these analogous scandal articles. I guess the augment for that naming scheme could be that the scandals typically transcend the programs themselves and extend to the athletic department and university administrations? Yeah, I made a couple quick cleanup edits to this article, but I'm reticent to spend much time expanding it because it's been such a media circus thus far and what we know is probably loaded with misinformation and disinformation. I do think though it's safe to the say the topic already rises to the level of notability warranting a stand-alone article. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:28, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW I was going to name it "Michigan football sign-stealing scandal" or "Michigan Wolverines football sign-stealing scandal" but then changed to "University of Michigan football sign-stealing scandal" when I saw the already existing "University of Michigan basketball scandal". No strong opinions either way. PK-WIKI (talk) 20:34, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should go back to "University of Michigan football sign-stealing scandal" for consistency with the analogs, unless we want to move those other articles in the other direction. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:36, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Moved back to University of Michigan football sign-stealing scandal. PK-WIKI (talk) 20:45, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs to be vastly expanded

I think some sort of section labeling the impacts the scandal had on previous seasons should be highlighted. It's important to detail how much this effed with everything. Robbed players on opposing teams (such as C.J. Stroud) of accolades, wins, and in the case of Ohio State, a chance at the Big Ten title game—I may be a bit biased. This is kind of my way of venting about it. But I do think an Impacts section would be helpful. TSwanyIRL (talk) 04:29, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

should the reason for the firing of Chris Partridge be changed?

On November 27, he released on X a statement clearing the air on why he was fired. Tumbokon (talk) 05:43, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I already added it to the page. Alex9234 (talk) 12:00, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article barely covers the actual sign stealing

While the preceding events and fallout are described, virtually nothing is explained regarding how Michigan stole signs and to what extent they did so. This needs to be amended. Evanf32 (talk) 23:43, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate Facts

This “article” is 95% irrelevant information & 100% written with egregious levels of Michigan bias. Cherry picking galore. Might need to start from scratch on this one. 69.146.80.178 (talk) 12:09, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stealing signs is not prohibited in the NCAA

The cheating was the advanced in person scouting to record the sidelines. That is strictly prohibited and it is obvious why. Bill Belichick did the same thing with the Patriots. They recorded the sidelines. 2600:6C40:7E7F:7FA9:B573:E134:744B:948B (talk) 14:25, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]