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Fair.  This IS my point.  It wasn't boosters/agents and kids, it was the institution.

If you guys think that the decades of institutionalized cheating at a place like OU didn't heavily involve the coaches and athletic department actively directing the boosters on which recruits to target with bags of cash, and who to continue funneling cash to via fake jobs once they reached campus, then I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona to sell you.  How do you think that stuff works?  You think boosters just find some player they like, give him a lot of money, and then tell coach "hey I'm sending old Joe Smith your way, hope you can find a use for him?" It's always coordinated through the coaching staff and athletic department.  NIL works exactly the same, except now it's above the table and legal.

We're not talking about hundred dollar handshakes from a booster after a good game, we're talking about carefully orchestrated recruiting by the coaches, and payment from the boosters upon their direction.  In the olden days it could reach hundreds of thousands of dollars in a class, more recently it was hitting 8 figures, before NIL made it all legal anyway.

Decades upon decades of institutionalized cheating, and y'all don't give a rat's ass about it, and indeed go out of your way to make all kinds of excuses for it.

So go cry me a river.

Actually, the Big Ten is the appropriate authority. Conferences have different rules when it comes to signs, signals and such.

That said, is USC playing Michigan this weekend?

The Ohio State honks are sucking all the oxygen out of the room, not likely we'll find any Michigan fans that want to discuss the game under the circumstances.  And of course we don't have any USC fans.

I think the Trojans are going to win but I think Michigan will make a game of it.  They're not dead yet...

Who do you trust least: Michigan's offense or USC's defense?

I think that USC's vastly improved defense will be enough to contain M's vastly diminished offense and that will be the difference because the strength on strength of M's defense vs USC's offense should be fairly even. 

I think that USC's vastly improved defense will be enough to contain M's vastly diminished offense and that will be the difference because the strength on strength of M's defense vs USC's offense should be fairly even.

Yep.

The Ohio State honks are sucking all the oxygen out of the room

No you're just winded from running off the 'Skers,Aggies & Buffs then leaving the Big 12 at the alter all whilst chasing the SEC bagmen down who've gone legit

FWIW:
This sucks for Ohio State because M in late November is probably going to be something like 10-2 caliber team with something like a 7-4 record thus creating a lose/lose situation for the Buckeyes.

that's called REACHING for something that sucks for Buck fans