Let me take you to a more realistic time, when hoity-toity Michigan football was beside itself over a coach steering the spotless football program deep into NCAA violation waters.
By practicing too much.
Now here we are, some 15 years and what seems like a lifetime of mediocre football later, and Michigan is protecting its long-awaited national championship of 2023 ― and how it was questionably built over the last four years ― at all cost. Reputation be damned.
The days of standing on that shining hill and proclaiming we’re better than you are long gone. Michigan is no different than any other run-of-the-mill cheat.
Back and forth the shell game goes, with no pea in sight. The short con, everyone, is paying off.
Keep your hands and feet inside the car. It’s a bumpy ride explaining this sordid mess.
In the last 11 months alone, Michigan suspended its football coach for three games, suspended him again for three more, picked fights with the NCAA and the Big Ten about the process of investigations into multiple rules violations from two separate cases, lost its head coach to the NFL, elevated an assistant to head coach despite his one-game suspension in 2023 for his part in the first NCAA investigation ― and hired him knowing he was an integral player in the second (yet to be resolved) NCAA investigation.
If you think that’s a mouthful, we haven’t even begun to peel back the layers of shameless defiance.
The second NCAA investigation of alleged advanced scouting of future opponents and the public carnival playing out with it ― complete with a Netflix documentary, no less ― brings us full circle to staring directly in the face of the last time Michigan dealt with NCAA violations from coach Rich Rodriguez. When then-Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman solemnly admitted humiliation and embarrassment, and athletics…
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Author : USA TODAY Sports
Publish date : 2024-08-28 08:08:16
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