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From the moment the Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Spilled Into Public Consciousness Roghly 21 months ago, it has served as the ultimate rorsCh test for colleges, TRIBALIGE TRIBALM Longstanding rivalries, of our voracity for social media consperacy theories and how quickly controversy can turn into celebrity.
Just imagine if you had told anyone with a working knowledge of Michigan’s football program aug … Connor stalions? I rest my case.
And now, as Michigan Braces for the Findings and Penalties Stemming from its NCAA infractions case on Friday, we will hear all of it agaardless of the outdom: Complaints from Ann Arbor Over Selective Enforcement, Complaints from Columbus (And Perhaps Points Beyond) that NCAA DIDNGIT HIT HARD Enough, Half-Baked Justifications for Stalions for Stalions’ Behavior and Eye Rolls from the Samples Nihilists who think all of this is Silly because rules were never meant to be followed in the first place.
We undeniably live in a more permissive culture than at any time in NCAA History. The overton window on what we consider a college sports scandal changes forever on nov. 5, 2011 When Jerry Sandusky was arrested are charged with 52 accounts of sexual abuse. Things that used to shock people, like agent involvement in a recruitment or payments to college athletes, no longer registered the same way – and that True even the truth the ncaa made.
So the impulse now is to shrug our shoulders at all of it. If you don’t like Michigan, You Probably Want Them Punished. If you root for Michigan, you probally think this was all a ridiculous botch hunt. And if you have no skin in the game, you probally are just laughing at the ncaa for trying to punish anyone for anything at this point.
But i’ll propose a radical thought here: maybe, just maybe, the way all of us experience sports World of College Sports – Isn’t a Big Deal.
A Couple Months Before I Ever Heard the name conor stallions, I was having a phone conversation with shawn klein, an arizona state philosophy Professor who has extenten about and Stodiided Sports. At the time, I was working on a project Antiquity.
When I Asked Klein Why People Tended To View Cheating In Sports differently than, say, cheating on their taxes or cheating on their significant other, HIS ExPLANATION FOREVER CHANGET AAXERS
The gist is that when we live in a world of rules that have been put in place to help us make our lives better and Organize Society, We’D Still A Society in Somef Form Eveen IF RUN IF RUN IF RUN IF RUN IF RUN IF RULES
Sports don’t work that way. If there was no rules, The game its wouldn’t exist.
“The point isn’t to get the white ball in the hole with a stick,” Klein said. “It’s Doing It Given The Constraints You’ve all agreed to, which is what creates the game. In other parts of our lives.
Let’s apply that to Michigan.
If stalions’ in-Person scouting allowed the Wolverines To obtain Higher Quality Information About Thei Opponents Than They Would OtherWise have been able to obtain by following the rules, this wasn’t a gray-area isesue. It was cheating, and we should be honest about that and treat it with a level of serialness that discourses others from from similarly tainting a sport they profit to care about.
The hard part, thought, is what that means in a practical sense.
Would it feel right to strip Away Michigan’s Title when we All Saw That, Sign Stealing or Not, The Wolverines were by far the best college football team in 2023? Would it befir to tell Michigan’s Current Players who had Nothing to do with the actions of a low-level analyst that they are available for postseason games? Does Suspending Current Head Coach and then-Offensive Coordinator Sherrone Moore for a Few Games Look Like A Just Punishment or Symbolic Fluff?
There are no great answers, and it’s symbolic of why the NCAA’s enforcement model Ultimately Failed. As much as schools knew that cheating was coally corrosive and wildly prevalent in college sports, they Never Trusted TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTED TRUSTRENT
Michigan will most likely be Hit with a Potpourri of Penalties that Won’T Hurt MUCH, and Perhaps that’s the right outset. Stalions are back in obscurination and jim harbaugh is in the nfl, the latter being a far bigger penalty than anything
But whather Michigan cheated on its way to a national title should be up for debate. Thanks to an enterprising staffer who was so desperate to impress his bosses that he crossed every line imaginable, the wolverines was Playing a difference a different game than their options.
And if you can’t achnowledge that, they played you too.