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Not only has scUM always sucked they have probably always cheated too, their cheating even dates back to 1893.........
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The NCAA may punish Michigan, or it may not, but the more the Wolverines win the less it is likely to matter to their fans – and even to their detractors. The real business will already have taken place on the field.
Michael Weinreb, a noted sports writer and author of “Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games,” acknowledged in a phone interview this week that bending the rules and outright cheating have been part of the game “from the beginning.”
And that’s true. Big Ten anchor Dave Revsine even recounts in his book “The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation” how seven of the 11 players on the 1893 Wolverines team were not actually enrolled at the University of Michigan.
But to Weinreb, what’s really sad about the modern-day, sign-stealing affair is that it “seems of a piece with where we are as a society – just the rule-breaking and the idea of win at all costs.
“It just seems to be more glorified than ever.”
Lessons From The Michigan College Football Sign-Stealing Scandal
In the long run, the Michigan sign-stealing scandal may highlight something about college football that teams and fans have seen before: winning solves problems.
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Does The Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Offer a Lesson?
The NCAA may punish Michigan, or it may not, but the more the Wolverines win the less it is likely to matter to their fans – and even to their detractors. The real business will already have taken place on the field.
Michael Weinreb, a noted sports writer and author of “Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games,” acknowledged in a phone interview this week that bending the rules and outright cheating have been part of the game “from the beginning.”
And that’s true. Big Ten anchor Dave Revsine even recounts in his book “The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation” how seven of the 11 players on the 1893 Wolverines team were not actually enrolled at the University of Michigan.
But to Weinreb, what’s really sad about the modern-day, sign-stealing affair is that it “seems of a piece with where we are as a society – just the rule-breaking and the idea of win at all costs.
“It just seems to be more glorified than ever.”
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