Michigan hit with 6 allegations of Level 1 violations for Sign Stealing Cheating
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Most don't from what I can tell
I don't think anyone is saying "Michigan is innocent and the NCAA has nothing"
The general response is "the NCAA won't do anything"--they desperately want/need Michigan to agree to something--see Tennessee.
It's unlikely any court sides with the NCAA
The clown is such a moron - he talks about the NCAA like the are a separate unrelated entity to the member Universities.... The actual reality is that the NCAA is a "self regulatory" entity made up of the Member Universities themselves (in fact, the Presidents and Chancellors of the Member Institutions (i.e., the most senior ranking officer of each member Institution) is the actual representative to the NCAA. Quite the opposite of this silly moron's claims that the NCAA has no power or authority, they have plenty of power and authority - and the people running the Member Institutions (the Presidents and Chancellors) are the very parties that gave them the power and authority.
It seems to me that the NCAA doesn't hand out 6 level one violations flippantly and without undeniable proof or at least we would hope. Michigan imo is fighting simply because they are Michigan and have an unreasonable heightened sense of self-worth. Arrogance is probably the biggest factor here. I think Michigan misses the fact that in this instance no one cares they are Michigan, and they might be missing the fact that most of college football hates them. No one who counts is going to come to their rescue and they can't stonewall their way through this one. For them circling the wagons will only get the place burned down. I hope.
They have power as long as it's being given to them. There's no real power
If you think about MSU (Nassar) and tOSU (Strauss), there were as many if not more problems than with Sandusky and the NCAA didn't really intervene. I guess you could argue that the NCAA realized its overreach with Penn State, but they are absent from the other two similar cases.
Furthermore, every single member of the B1G is beyond pi$$ed about what Michigan has done. There will be no quarter given by the B1G.
Because those were legal cases which needed prosecuted by the law. Michigan's situation is not that. Although, the FBI is looking into gambling issues. This is 100% in the NCAA's realm of authority.
Same as Penn State. Penn State had reduced scholarships, fines, postseason bans, etc. The MSU and tOSU cases were far more expansive.
The NCAA didn't realize it's overreach. The PSU BOT bent over saying "Thank you sir may I have another?" OSU & MSU defended their institutions.
Circling back to the originally quoted post of mine, I said if you tell the NCAA to pound sand you usually make out better than cooperating.
Well, Michigan got the hardest sanctions the B1G could give at the time. So, yes, that B1G.
We will always be a target. They saw their opening and took it. Joe made a lot of enemies in college football by rubbing their nose in winning by doing it the right way. It is what it is.
But with Michigan, schools in the Big Ten and across the country have written to and called the NCAA screaming for justice. I can't see them getting off or just getting their fingers slapped.
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Nassar and Strauss absolutely had more problems than the Sandusky mess, especially as it relates to the NCAA.
Student athletes were directly harmed at MSU and OSU (and Michigan). PSU's scandal had ZERO to do with the NCAA. In fact, PSU is still the only D1 program to have never been found guilty of a major NCAA infraction.
But I think the NCAA lost it's zeal for dealing with sexual abuse cases.
This is an entirely different animal.
