https://www.si.com/college/2023/10/29/michigan-silence-sign-stealing-scandal-jim-harbaugh
A pretty balanced look at where it all stands- IMO.
I mean, they know they are f***ed. But the NCAA moves at a snails pace. Deny, deny, deny. Michigan will win a NC, the networks will be happy, then it will be vacated. That's literally the Michigan way.
Their best period of baseball was vacated because the head coach was literally embezzling from the school to pay players. Their best period of basketball was vacated. And now their best period of football will be.
The only reason anyone cares is because Michigan pretends to be better, when in fact they are far dirtier. Cowherd said nobody would care if this was Purdue is correct. But only because Purdue didn't stake their claim to being above anything anyone else did. When you go to a game at Michigan Stadium, it opens with James Earl Jones saying "this is the greatest university in the world". It's laughable hyperbole, but as for the general student population, it's not comically off. Their players are subject to the same, if not lower, academic standards of every other Big Ten team. This just extenuated, that Michigan lives more in the grey area than any other Big Tern team. If they hadn't pretended to be better than everyone, nobody would care when it turns out their standards were actually lower than everyones. When Auburn cheats, everyone laughs, and says "that's Auburn!". Michigan is just Auburn with a false sense of superiority. They claim to be the Harvard of the West, but they are actually the Auburn of the north. They are no worse than anyone. But any pretense that they are better than anyone, is laughable, and now gone
