So let me get this straight. Your argument is Michigan sign stealing impacts players, CJ is dominant against everyone else including the NFL, but just magically “sucked” that day and the sarcasm part is claiming he didn’t actually suck that day? Then what possibly could your argument have been about the sign stealing?
Can’t play it both ways my man. But yeah, I have reading comprehension problems.
Parsing my words and playing word salad now.
I will just tell you my opinion on the whole thing, and I believe it is very reasonable. You are free to disagree with it.
IF ( emphasis on IF) Michigan used the recording of their opponents play calls it gave them an unfair advantage, created a not level playing field.
They didn’t need to- they were, and are, a really good team
But it impacted plays, results, perceptions of players, awards, draft choices and this is true of every opponent they played. It impacted who got into the CFP. In other words- very far reaching impact. Recruiting is another huge impact.
I used Stroud’s Heisman journey as but 1 example. Does the knowledge of play calls impact who won the game last year? We can debate that forever- but we would be missing the bigger point. And that is- we may never know, but the question itself is legitimate. That’s the point.
I will defend Harbaugh here. To my knowledge, nothing has been reported or leaked that suggests that he was aware. So I think suspending him at this point, barring some evidence, that the NCAA a shared with the Big Ten commissioner that we are not aware of, is premature. I think they are still investigating that.
But this chorus of people saying it needs to be fully investigated, are missing something here. First of all the question of whether this activity took place is its own question, and I would opine that that part of the investigation has been going on for a long time, and that case has been fully proven to the powers that be. Unless you’re going to make the argument that there are no receipts for these 35 games in 17 different opponent stadiums, and there is no video of him or somebody video recording the entire game of the opponent. It is my opinion that that has been proven beyond the doubt and people in the know have that evidence.
So again, if that is the case, this crap about “due process” is nothing but crap. If you already know what happened, even if you still aren’t sure who knew about it on the Michigan staff, you can take action based on that alone. I would’ve had that due process is a bunch of baloney if you’re not cooperating with the investigation and our stonewalling, which is obviously what Michigan is doing here.
It’s my belief that the commissioner of the Big Ten is in possession of this evidence, and wants to do something now based on the impact it has on the season and continues to have in this season. That is where this is unprecedented. Never before ever had potential endgame cheating be discovered in the middle of a season.
how it plays out in the short run? I won’t venture to guess. If they have that evidence and allow Michigan to continue, it’s going to look pretty stupid if it gets vacated later.
I do have a high level of confidence that they’re 21, 22 Big Ten titles, and all of those wins will be vacated by the NCAA at some point in the future
Everything I said, above is just common sense, one person is opinion, but is very reasonable, set a of thought processes. Fire way on what you disagree with.
