Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the appropriate punishment for Michigan’s sign-stealing scandal and what the school would prefer. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
So the NC A has said that it wants to get away from the postseason bands because that’s what said you don’t want to punish two angles on that for this case.
No one is alleging that like Connor Stallions was working with the players, right?
This would totally be did the coaches know because a lot of these are like, well, you paid for this recruit and that guy benefited financially, right?
That’s sort of the bit.
And then you say, well, I don’t want to punish these guys because they didn’t even know that kid, it was two years ago or something like that.
There’s no indication that any player knew anything now they might have benefited from it.
But it would be hard for me to say we should punish players, let alone future players on this for a postseason ban based on the past comments by the NC A that they want to get away with that.
So like this is not a player or recruit driven case, which it normally is because these are normally about money other than this drive and this meal that some staffer bought some of the kids and something else So, does that give Michigan some leeway on getting out of a postseason ban or not?
I, I just really feel like that’s it.
I think Michigan fan would take anything other than postseason ban and, and vacated title.
Yeah.
No, that’s it.
They, I mean, even if it’s, you know, 4 million to 10 million, I, you know, I don’t think Michigan’s gonna sit there and say, oh, no, we’re devastated by this at all.
So, if that’s what the NCAA perhaps comes to them with, I think they, they try to wrap this thing relatively quickly and say, yes, we’ll pay the fine, let’s move on.
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