2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments - NCAA: no wins taken away, no postseason ban

[CincyInterloper]

Totally agree.

This part I disagree with.

College football didn't grow up, it torn loose from this 19th century indentured servitude/sweat shop model where the schools, NCAA and the Bowls kept all the money and the labor/talent that did all the entertaining was told they were lucky to be there.

I would say the powers that be were exposed for what they were doing instead of giving it some benign euphemism like 'grew up'.

There is nothing about that I would consider a shame except for how long those greedy bastards got away with it and how they continue to try and sell the charade of amateurism to retain some semblance of power.

That is what's shameful in my book.

I agree the indentured servitude model was a travesty, and something needed to change. But that didn't cross my mind as I considered why the NCAA reduced the damage caused by Michigan's malfeasance to a dollar amount. I suppose the common factor is that both behaviors (unfairly keeping all profits/reducing punishments to a dollar amount) are driven by the profit motive, i.e., greed. The profit motive isn't always a bad thing, but left unchecked it can lead to undesirable results. In any case, it seems like the Gordon Gekkos of the world are running college athletics at the moment.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Balboa is a guy who still needs a ton of work (Only actually started playing football a few years ago) and still may have ended up starting if this injury didn't occur, that says it all about the state of scUMs OL.

 

[CincyInterloper]

Well, at least we're spared of dealing with that smirking little jock-sniffer Ono doing a victory lap on Twitter.

Michigan getting off with a slap on the wrist has to be a worst-case scenario for a guy like Ono. He's got to be thinking about how much better off he'd be if he had just stayed at U of M.

 

[scarletngray]

For those who read the report, did it say anything about Jimmy Hairball and TCUN being a bunch of cheaters? Asking for a friend...

 

[osuvictory1]

Michigan getting off with a slap on the wrist has to be a worst-case scenario for a guy like Ono. He's got to be thinking about how much better off he'd be if he had just stayed at U of M.

There is the whole Weiss thing that is a nightmare.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Michigan getting off with a slap on the wrist has to be a worst-case scenario for a guy like Ono. He's got to be thinking about how much better off he'd be if he had just stayed at U of M.

The one bit of true justice that came of all of this is that clown is now absolutely toxic for another university presidency.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

There is the whole Weiss thing that is a nightmare.

Yeah, I think that was going to ultimately sink him anyways. I certainly hope that it further publicly humiliates him and makes him even more toxic for another job.

 

[ochre]

why's he making a giant vagina with his hands?

 

[pnuts34]

This is what pisses me off about last year.
We were a national championship contender. I mean, yeah, we won the whole damn thing, but in November we were just contenders. And we lost to that team? I'm not sure they weren't cheating for this game.
Which brings me to another point. I know it seems I'm getting off topic, but I'll bring it back, I promise:
So I saw a show a million years ago about counterfeiting money. Some nerd figured out how to fake everything and he printed up a bunch of 20-dollar bills. And he used them at a bunch of places, buying little things that were $2 and getting the $18 in change. Eventually, some gas station clerk tested the bill and found out it was counterfeit and called the police and he was caught a little ways down the road. But they said the problem isn't that he got $100 in change for the 5 or 6 bills he used - it's that all the businesses lose a little bit of confidence in the money they're accepting from customers. The power of the currency is in that people believe it is worth something. When people start to think it isn't worth anything, then it starts to not be worth anything.
So, when we start to doubt that everyone is playing on the level, the wins don't mean as much. The game doesn't mean as much. And if the game doesn't mean much, then the NCAA isn't doing their job.

Theres no way I believe that scUM cheated this year. That L is ALL on Day and Kelly! They wanted to play to scUM strengths(going at their DL in the run game repeatedly), instead of remembering they had the best WR in CFB and just throwing it up to him

With the state of the OL and Howard, the only thing that still bothers me about that game is Brown not getting a chance. Not too far into the 2nd half it should’ve been obvious that Brown needed a series to either clear Howard’s head or replace him. Do I think it changes the outcome? Probably not, but the risk of him making a mistake wasn’t any higher than Howard and he had a much better shot at hitting JJ deep. Has to be one of the most egregious errors Day has made on game day.

Howard wasn't the problem. The play calling was. Brown wouldn't have mattered in the Game because all he'd be doing is handing it off to Quinshon and Trey to run into the back of the OL over and over and over. Howard was the best option at QB but he wasn't utilized and put in a position to succeed. Thats on the coaches

 

[scarletngray]

There is the whole Weiss thing that is a nightmare.

Indeed! It is going to bring great disgrace upon the University and it's football program to such a degree that it might actually slap the arrogant smirk off the face of the scUM fan base. OK, I just underestimated their arrogance. I take that back.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

The Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1634-1637 is the standard for "shits only worth what we believe its worth"

Crypto says, "hold my beer."

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Let the karma begin .....

She’s a bitch, and because she has a pussy, she’s also undefeated. I look for her winning streak to continue in that state.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

On one hand, I don't wish any injury on anyone.
On the other hand, he chose to play for the cheaters. If he wanted me to root for him, he should have chosen anywhere else.
Anywhere else.
Anywhere.

Exactly, Don’t wish for kids to get injured… that’s bad Karma. But if it happens to one of theirs? My fuck manufacturing facility is off line. I couldn’t manufacture a fuck if I had to.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Crypto says, "hold my beer."

I'd considered posting exactly that, but realized that I'm honestly not smart enough to know if it's right. It might be too big and have too many powerful friends to fail.