Michigan scandal thread

[RickinDayton]

I believe the best penalty that would actually have a chance of being imposed was reducing the number of assistant coaches. That would actually affect Michigans performance on the field. The money sanction is peanuts.

Every Coach & AD in the B1G should be livid. Michigan admitted to cheating got away with it. None of those actions by the NCAA will have seriuos or detrimental impact on their football program. The jokes on the B1G and the rest of college football.

 

[NewEra 2014]

I'm still going to enjoy saying "cheaters" under my breath whenever someone wearing Michigan gear walks by.

 

[Sheriff Coffee]

Every Coach & AD in the B1G should be livid. Michigan admitted to cheating got away with it. None of those actions by the NCAA will have seriuos or detrimental impact on their football program. The jokes on the B1G and the rest of college football.

100% agreed but it is actually worse than that. They obstructed the investigation, including their current head coach, who deleted text messages and a coach who threw his mobile phone into a lake. Then there is the coach who is in legal trouble for hacking girls laptops and the previous OC who was fired as well.

The bottom line is, taking UM specifically out of the conversation, what is the deterrent from other teams also cheating if the result is getting a cushy NFL job, winning a natty, and the board having to cough up a small portion of their sports revenue? The NCAA, in today's ruling, said that there was enough there to ban them from bowls for a year but "didn't want to penalize current student athletes who are innocent bystanders." Wall, la dee fricken da. WTF were they with University of Akron, Penn State, tOSU and dozens of others who did far less and suffered far worse penalties?

The entire thing makes no sense. The only thing that does is that UM got massive special treatment that other teams would not. And/or the NCAA has been totally gutted and is 100% useless in enforcing the fundamental laws of the sport.

 

[ryoder1]

I believe the best penalty that would actually have a chance of being imposed was reducing the number of assistant coaches. That would actually affect Michigans performance on the field. The money sanction is peanuts.

They don't want to affect their performance on the field, that is obvious. So they hide behind they don't want to "penalize the current student athlete's future" excuse.

Look at the absurdity and illogical nature of this process.

-This all came out around Sept of '23 and took 2 years.
- So penalties are imposed two years later from when they were outed. Thus it is built in that half the team is gone by the time penalties are imposed so it means they can weasel out of it by saying they don't want to impact current student athletes in the program who had nothing to do with it. What a perfect way to weasel out of it. How many wormy lawyers did it take scUM to concoct this horse shxx.

Look at it this way.....they could have done one of two things if they had any backbone....

1) The program needs to be held accountable for these actions so they are imposing a post season ban and the student athletes (I know they are not student athletes but paid professionals) that were not in the program have an opportunity to transfer immediately or wait until the official transfer portal in December.

OR

2) All the student athletes (again a joke referring to them as this) who were in the program when this cheating occurred are not allowed to participate in any post season games for the next two years. This would effectively end their post season career. That is fair because you have to assume they all knew about it from Harbaugh to Moore to the Freshman punter.

I of course like #1 but at least #2 would have some sting to it.

Reduce their scholarship limits to half for a couple years. Do effing something to these arrogant a holes.

The gutless incompetent NCAA strikes again. And where is that idiot, gas bag, two faced Mark Emmert to defend their a##wipe decisions? Oh yeah he left after captaining the Titanic otherwise known as the NCAA.

 

[Dailybuck777]

impact current student athletes in the program who had nothing to do with it.

I agree with you that this is about the worst rationale possible for not imposing real penalties. There is no real penalty on any player because of the transfer portal. If the program is as dishonest as the NCAA says it is, the players would benefit from playing for a more ethical program.

 

[ryoder1]

I'm still going to enjoy saying "cheaters" under my breath whenever someone wearing Michigan gear walks by.

The next time they come to Happy Valley we should have all Penn State lettermen from the last 10 years and others who are big dudes to sit in the Michigan section and just screw with and heckle their fans the whole game. Make their experience miserable. Let students all sit right behind their bench and have them harass the team endlessly.

 

[GregInPitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956371248201474359

What a crock of $hit!!!

They didn't mind penalizing all the PSU student athletes that had NOTHING to do with the SOMETHING that had nothing to do with the actual football program.

Glad I was on the golf course and didn't have to hear about it real time.....

 

[LudicrousSpeedGO!]

Every Coach & AD in the B1G should be livid. Michigan admitted to cheating got away with it. None of those actions by the NCAA will have seriuos or detrimental impact on their football program. The jokes on the B1G and the rest of college football.

I would think that every team in the country could take this as a green light to start an open espionage program, Nothing is off limits. Steal signs, practice footage, openly recruit players, have paid kids on campus trying to get opposing teams' star players to fight them and plant drugs in their bags, try to pay them to sit specific games. Also, maybe conduct operations on other campuses that render their practice facilities unusable for a period of time. Pay off professors to fail their star players. Pay off lower staff members to send game plans and playbooks prior to games. There are no rules if they aren't enforced. This ruling is a green light to do literally anything to sabotage opposing teams with no fear of punishment.

 

[The Spin Meister]

I am completely shocked that any of you are shocked.

My polite way of saying ‘I told you so!’

 

[Sheriff Coffee]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956451398373069215

 

[RickinDayton]

I'm still going to enjoy saying "cheaters" under my breath whenever someone wearing Michigan gear walks by.

And laughing inside at the site of someone wearing Michigan gear.

 

[Bison13]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956451398373069215

And it probably will get reduced

 

[RickinDayton]

And it probably will get reduced

Michigan arrogance knows no bounds!

 

[Jerry]

And it probably will get reduced

The chutzpah exhibited by Michigan here is akin to the kid who killed his parents and then demanded mercy from the court on grounds that he was an orphan.

But these are the times we live in. No pride. No honor. No shame.

 

[ryoder1]

I gotta say that I do not like Ohio State but now I can't see myself ever cheering against the Buckeyes when they play scUM.

 

[LudicrousSpeedGO!]

I gotta say that I do not like Ohio State but now I can't see myself ever cheering against the Buckeyes when they play scUM.

I want scUM to go 1-11. I just think it would be hilarious if they continue to beat Ohio St no matter how bad they might be.

 

[Lazy Dave]

I am completely shocked that any of you are shocked.

My polite way of saying ‘I told you so!’

Yes. Yes you did.

Take your victory lap.

 

[Creamery]

From ESPN …,”Later Friday, Michigan issued a statement saying it would appeal the NCAA ruling.”

UM wanted to self sanction and the NCAA said no.

And to look back to 2012, PSU laid down and took all the sanctions full throttle

 

[ryoder1]

I want scUM to go 1-11. I just think it would be hilarious if they continue to beat Ohio St no matter how bad they might be.

I want them going 0-12.

 

[LudicrousSpeedGO!]

From ESPN …,”Later Friday, Michigan issued a statement saying it would appeal the NCAA ruling.”

UM wanted to self sanction and the NCAA said no.

And to look back to 2012, PSU laid down and took all the sanctions full throttle

It tells you how much those in charge in the BOT wanted no digging at TSM.