I saw an article that pointed out that Michigan's greatest era of success prior to this, resulted in them being kicked out of the big 10 for using players that never even sniffed a classroom, let alone in Michigan classroom. Their greatest era of baseball success was vacated because the coach was embezzling money from the university to pay players in the '80s, and then two years ago their best player was suspended for using an illegal bat. Everyone knows how their greatest era of basketball success ended. Their last hockey coach got fired for telling players to lie about not having COVID practices. And now their football coach, while being investigated for the same thing that got their hockey coach fired, is being investigated for an even bigger cheating scandal. At some point when an institution tells you what they are, over the course of over 100 years, you should probably believe them.
And that's not to say they are any worse than anyone else, but any facade that they are any better, is laughable. Hopefully they add a laugh track to James. Earl Jones introducing the greatest university in the world. Honestly, if this was Auburn, nobody would care. I think most of us would accept zero penalties, as long as Michigan just admitted they were the Auburn of the north, rather than the Harvard of the West
