ELA was Ann Arbor Adam before he was ELA, so there is that. Has ELA given up his entire Michigan fandom? I can't speak to that.
There should be punishment on Michigan for what we already know. Michigan didn't seem to conduct much investigation before firing Connor Stalions. Where was his due process? Michigan knew immediately after it was accused it violated NCAA rules through sign stealing by scouting opponents. Now Michigan wants hearings on what the remainder of the coaching staff knew, even though the institution immediately knew it was guilty.
Michigan's defense is, "Don't take our away our chance of being national champions." In doing so it deflects from its responsibility by saying other schools steal signs, too, but the evidence Michigan presents is that the sign stealing of others was within the rules. Michigan's sign stealing was outside the rules.
The evidence appears to show there was a budget for sending scouts to sign steal.
Michigan football sign-stealing probe began after firm obtained video from school computers, per reports - CBSSports.com The videos were saved on the Michigan coaching staff computer hard drive.
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I have said on here before this that this is a fairly minor violation, only because I believe the rules will almost certainly be changed next year, after this year's fiasco. Why should the punishment for this year's violations be visited on a future innocent Michigan team and players? The punishment should be visited upon this team.
Even though the violations seem minor, because I believe the rules will be changed, nevertheless it was a huge advantage for Michigan to know what plays opponents were running before the snap.
USC's 2005 BCS national championship was vacated because
one player (Reggie Bush) received financial benefits from a sports agent. There is no evidence USC knew their opponent's plays in advance. It would seem to me that knowing what play the opponent's offense will run, is a much bigger advantage than playing one ineligible starter out of 30 or so starters.
Incidentally, Connor Stalions has not publicly denied being on the sidelines incognito wearing sunglasses in CMU coaching gear at the CMU @ MSU game, as far as I know. If it wasn't him, he'd have reason to say so. Perhaps CMU has issues knowingly allowing a college football scout on their sidelines.