The last paragraph - I don't think anyone is trying to turn it into that, I think it has been an overwhelming barrage attack on the program and Harbaugh. Just the tip of the iceberg has been seen here
We know Stalions was violating the rule, which provided sign decoding to the program, and the Big Ten determined that this in itself violated their sportsmanship guidelines.
Unless the argument is "what you have tons of evidence for didn't happen", what more due process do you need? Remember, the Big Ten
did not punish Harbaugh. They punished the program based on something concrete they believed they had overwhelming evidence for, and for which (in the UM objection) UM did not ever deny occurred. And then UM dismissed their own request for a preliminary injunction--maybe that was just a PR move, but maybe it also suggests they know they can't fight the Big Ten on the merits.
The rest of the issues will be worked out by the NCAA, on the NCAA's glacial timeline.
The Big Ten has punished Michigan based on known facts that satisfy their due process, and the NCAA remains to play out and hasn't punished anyone.
We do know that Michigan still won two big games without stallions, without harbaugh and now without excuses.
And here's why I argued several weeks ago that we shouldn't let the outcome of one or two games color this, despite the fact that I knew both fanbases would take a win in the game as evidence that (if OSU won) the sign stealing was enormously advantageous or (if UM won) that this was all a nothingburger. And in this case we got both... The game was close compared to the last two years so the OSU fans say it proves sign stealing was advantageous, while Michigan fans say "hey look we still won" so it's a nothingburger.
And it's an argument that neither team can prove, because you can't know what
would have happened this year had none of this come to light.