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|    Michael Falkner to The NOTBCS Guy    |
|    Re: Let me give you an example of what I    |
|    11 Nov 23 15:14:26    |
      From: darkstar7646@gmail.com              On Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 12:40:36 PM UTC-8, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:       > > > And then what? Football life goes on as usual at Michigan.        > > No, you basically shitcan the program and this stops.       > By firing Harbaugh? Or is your definition of "football life goes on as       usual" include more scouting of opponents, which is the only thing that stops.              Shitcan the program. No more Michigan games this year, all games forfeited,       0-12.              Removing Harbaugh is not sufficient.              > > > The problem is, there's no real way to punish the school without       punishing the "innocent athletes" involved. The one exception I can        > > In this particular case, there are no innocent athletes. And at some       point, you have to start making these players responsible for the choices they       DO make.       > They're not the ones that stole the signals. The ones that did are now gone.       Any postseason ban absolutely punishes somebody who went to the school with no       knowledge of what was going on. This is one of the reasons the NCAA is       starting to issue heavy        fines in place of bowl bans. It's similar to when it could issue TV bans; the       teams' opponents complained that they were receiving one-game TV bans as well.              This is involving a benefit that the current athletes are not entitled to.        They also had to know the NCAA was already coming in on Harbaugh once already       before this year.              With the lack of sportsmanship, Michigan was not entitled to be 9-0 entering       today.              Mike              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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