DaddyBigBucks said:

Also… about 10 questions in, no questions about the cheaters

Clearly the press has been told not to ask

Fuq off, coward

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Thump said:

When I hear people doing it, I just walk away.

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Woody1968 said:

Regardless of whether they would have to give it back or not, the B1G has an interest in minimizing the fallout.

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DaddyBigBucks said:

BP seems to be resolving into two schools of thought on what Petitti wrote months ago (but was just reported).

1) Those who think Petitti’s job is to represent any B1G school who finds themselves in that situation
2) Those who think he should represent the 17 schools who were cheated

But the B1G isn’t one school or even 18 schools with one agenda. It is 18 schools, each of which sees this from multiple perspectives depending on who you ask.

How many schools will have their bottom line affected (and by how much) if the cheaters get what’s coming to them? More to the point, for how many schools will that marginal difference in revenue matter enough that they will swallow their pride and their morality and be ok with the cheaters getting away with it?

For some of the bottom feeders, maybe they think it would be enough. But as the conference shares revenue equally, how much of a difference would it be, really? It’s hard to know, but for most teams that is the only question.

For the Buckeyes however, the question is different. For them, the real question is, how does the marginal revenue hit of an irrelevant Michigan compare to what the cheating cost you?

Now some of you may be thinking, “What the cheating cost the Buckeyes is a sunk cost. It doesn’t matter, moving forward.” That’s a perfectly valid perspective if you don’t care about justice. That may be a harsh way to express it, but it’s true for all that.

For my part, I think the Buckeyes should care about justice, and so should (at the very least) the teams who also had something taken from them by the cheating. And those teams comprise a larger portion of the conference than the cheaters do.

To me, the only thing that would make this ok is if the omitted context from the slanted ESPN story includes the fact that Petitti had already seen the proposed punishment and was saying they shouldn’t get anything beyond that, in spite of their truculent behavior. Otherwise he needs to go.

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