[Farm93]

Actually not true. IIRC they scouted likely bowl opponents and did have what they thought were TCU's signals for last year's bowl game, but the TCU staff had apparently been tipped off and changed their signals.

That's rather sad.   One would need to scout quite a few teams in late November as even with one or two weeks left in the season there are often dozens of possible opponents one could face in a bowl game.   It would also require quite a few staffers to be willing to ignore the rules to "scout" all of those opponents.    

Do these staffers then file expense reports?  Or were their travel expenses covered by select outsiders?  Seems like there would be a few accounting, personal tax reporting and/or public employee compensation issues in that mess.  

Either way there must be far too many involved for the BigTen and the NCAA not to figure this out.   Would love for them to finally hit someone during one of the seasons with the cheating rather than four or five years after the players, staffers and head coach have all left the program.

[Farm93]

Actually not true. IIRC they scouted likely bowl opponents and did have what they thought were TCU's signals for last year's bowl game, but the TCU staff had apparently been tipped off and changed their signals.

That's rather sad.   One would need to scout quite a few teams in late November as even with one or two weeks left in the season there are often dozens of possible opponents one could face in a bowl game.   It would also require quite a few staffers to be willing to ignore the rules to "scout" all of those opponents.    

Do these staffers then file expense reports?  Or were their travel expenses covered by select outsiders?  Seems like there would be a few accounting, personal tax reporting and/or public employee compensation issues in that mess.  

Either way there must be far too many involved for the BigTen and the NCAA not to figure this out.   Would love for them to finally hit someone during one of the seasons with the cheating rather than four or five years after the players, staffers and head coach have all left the program.