Michigan trolled for trying to block broadcast cameras from huddle during Week 12
Michigan has been the headline story in college football as it has faced allegations that it had stolen signs from opposing defensive sidelines. The B1G’s resulting investigation led to a 3-game suspension for Jim Harbaugh.
Harbaugh wasn’t with the team on Saturday in their game against Maryland, as a result, and won’t coach the team on Nov. 25 in the season finale against Ohio State. Instead, Sherrone Moore is serving as acting head coach. Late in the 2nd quarter, with the Wolverines ahead 23-10, FOX cameras picked up images of Moore with his players gathered around him.
That is, until Michigan staffers tried to obscure the view with a pair of flags. You can see from the video below that while they were somewhat successful in blocking the SkyCam, FOX’s other 2 cameras were able to catch at least part of Moore’s conversation.
Michigan is blocking the cameras with flags pic.twitter.com/liJiJDQxOc
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) November 18, 2023
Considering all that’s happened with Michigan over the past number of weeks, this is certainly fascinating. And it led to a host of reactions across social media as the Wolverines found themselves being trolled by fans and media:
https://twitter.com/VernFunquist/status/1725952188814414214
this is like when someone farts and immediately responds by making a face and accusing the person next to them. genius. https://t.co/hUG3SCgXhH
— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr) November 18, 2023
trying to learn what the other team is doing is a major advantage i totally get trying to limit that https://t.co/wOmw7juK85
— Bill DiFilippo (@billdifilippo) November 18, 2023
The tone deafness of this program has no bounds. https://t.co/BhevBZnvRp
— Kyle Rowland (@KyleRowland) November 18, 2023
https://t.co/MSY1A6FoYx pic.twitter.com/H0kpm83EqQ
— Richard🇬🇾Johnson (human) (@RJ_cfb) November 18, 2023
This seems ironic on so many levels https://t.co/myEG5uAfQL
— The Solid Verbal College Football Podcast (@SolidVerbal) November 18, 2023
Nothing quite like saying “we did it” than by turning this into a spectacle https://t.co/gOiWfsJ6jU
— djbrohawk.bsky (@DJBrohawk) November 18, 2023
Going all out to prevent something that gives “little to no competitive advantage” https://t.co/fJ8KIMiNU1
— Moneybagg (@MoneybaggH0E) November 18, 2023
JJ McCarthy was picked off on the goal line right after this the jokes wrote themselves https://t.co/n88O9ejToN
— Graham Coffey (@GrahamCoffeyDC) November 18, 2023
This situation may have officially crossed over to self-parody. https://t.co/zFkmIIl1lj
— Nathan Baird (@nwbaird) November 18, 2023
Why would they do that? Part of their defense was that it’s no advantage for them? https://t.co/awcjjcNoyW
— TMB🤌🏻 (@tmb237) November 18, 2023
Fox is spending a couple billion for this. https://t.co/x4lIY2Dsiz
— Seth Rorabaugh (@SethRorabaugh) November 18, 2023
https://twitter.com/milhouse0102/status/1725953178926035114