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he founded, owns, and runs the most popular online sports media company in the US. he's got who knows how many tens of millions of followers on social media platforms from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and X/Twitter.

Fox Sports is dying on the vine and trying to compete with ESPN and trying to attract new viewership to keep up with the Jonses. It's not that hard to believe at all. I actually can't believe that you can't believe they would be putting be this asshole on TV.

They are desperate to bring in eyeballs.

unfortunately those programs don't bring the type of eyeballs to television sets that Michigan does- which in turn makes the conference billions of dollars and those schools hundreds of millions of dollars every single year.

if you're talking about the 5 most watched programs in the sport- Michigan is way up there with Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas and whoever is ontop in the SEC at the moment- Florida was the IT program for a minute- then it was Bama for a decade and a half- now it's been Georgia the last 5-ish years.

ever heard the saying....don't bite the hand that feeds you? yeah...B1G conference heads and those school President heads & AD's aren't going to upset the apple cart and try to bite the hand that feeds them. it's common sense really. keep. it. simple. stupid.

you do not = rest of the American public and particularly the most important demographic- 18 to 34, genius.

I agree, but a severe penalty won't stop the conference from reaping the $$$ benefits from Michigan TV revenue
and if it REALLY pisses off Michigan, so what?  What are they gonna do, crawl to the SEC for an invite?
F no

What additional specific penalities do you thing SHOULD be attached?

• Non-recognition of games and titles won in years during which cheating provably occurred (21-23).  This matters a little to those of us who truly follow the sport without significantly impacting the Cheater's ability to continue to bring in revenue for the league so it is easy and the justice of it is manifestly obvious.  
• Stallions' show-cause should be made a permanent ban from participation or attendance at any league event.  The guy is the personification of a Michigan "man", as @ELA said above, you can tell when he is lying by when his lips are moving.  He lied about everything to the NCAA, did everything he could to obstruct their investigation, and claimed that despite his apparently rain-man like memory of signals he couldn't recall whether or not he was on the CMU sideline.  Dirtbags like him have no place in our league whatsoever.  
• Same as #2 but for Harbaugh.  I realize that fans will claim that Harbaugh was essentially Sargent Schultz.  Fans of a program in trouble ALWAYS make that claim but the rules don't care.  The standard for a HC isn't "knew" it is "knew or should have known" and Harbaugh was either complicit in the cheating scheme or so willfully blind that his intentionally turning a blind eye to some random dude being on the sideline with his coordinators constitutes malfeasance.  
• Sherrone Moore banned from participating in league games for the duration of his NCAA show-cause.  Several neutral fans above pointed out that the AD's failure to burn it down and fire everyone involved sends the message that cheating is worth it and this would at least put that in question.  
• At least a one-year postseason ban.  The NCAA stated that there was sufficient evidence for a two year ban.  It should be three to correspond to the (at least) three years that the institution operated a cheating system and a one or two year ban would still be a slap on the wrist relative to the magnitude of what the institution did but at least this would have some deterrent value.  Ie, if you get caught cheating you'll have to miss a postseason.  
• Expand the fine to include the revenue from merchandise.  Whenever a school wins a league title or an NC they get a bounce in merch sales.  This is ESPECIALLY true when the school hasn't won one in a while.  Ie, Bama fans have had LOTS of opportunities to buy NC shirts so they aren't necessarily going to run out and buy a new one when they already have 10 in their closet.  Michigan fans, on the contrary had only tattered, worn out old 1997 NC gear so when their team won* in 2023 their merchandising would have gone through the roof.  Ill gotten gains such as that shouldn't accrue to a program that achieved those gains by cheating as Michigan did.  This money to be distributed to the schools that were in the league when the cheating scheme was operational since they were most directly damaged by the cheating scheme.  
• A 10-year probationary period during which any violations trigger a stiffer than normal response.  The Michigan football program under Harbaugh operated flagrantly outside of the rules and the institution has demonstrated that they support that and will not independently take action to rein in such malfeasance to protect their institutional reputation so this is to step in and handle that for them.  

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