When I was a boy my favorite basketball 🏀 team had a really great year. They made it all the way to the Regional Final in Lexington Kentucky where they lost to a young group, a bunch of freshmen mostly. They considered themselves fabulous.
Years later it came out that the team my Buckeyes lost to had a payroll to rival some NBA squads. The wiki article on it says:
"It is one of the largest incidents involving payments to athletes in American collegiate history."
Of course Michigan had to vacate the win, but the boy in me didn't get to see his team in the Final Four. Bo Schembechler's athletic department cheated and stole that from him.
The bottom line is that when Bo Schembechler's athletic department wasn't getting the wins they wanted, they orchestrated and facilitated one of the largest cheating scandals in history.
Michigan football just said "we can top that."
When Michigan football fell behind and wasn't getting the wins they wanted they knew what they needed to do. All they had to do was think of the namesake of Schembechler Hall. They brought in a Michigan "man" to fix it the Michigan way. Their Michigan "man" apparently orchestrated and directed what will go down in history as one of the largest incidents in college football history.
This is worthy of Bo Schembechler's athletic department, it is a fitting successor to the Ed Martin scandal.
