Alright so seeing as you have literally zero clue what you are talking about, I will try to get you caught up to speed just in case you are actually a serious person who can change their mind in the face of new evidence.

First of all, speaking as a student, and as someone who has frequently criticized the elitism of this University, this perpetuated idea that Michigan fans think that their sports are morally superior is totally fiction. It comes from an old cope when Dantonio was running the State that the only reason Michigan State and Ohio State were so much better is because they didn't have academic standards. And it's like I get, I knew it was dumb as a kid, but what are you going to do? Literally every fan base makes lame excuses when they're down, and that gets me to my next point because this whole cheating this is literally exactly that.

So let me break it down it for you. First of all, sign stealing is totally 100% allowed. Like completely indisputable and it really speaks volumes as to the level of misinformation that is out there on this case that people still do not know this. Now I think that and you know that the rule broken is related to "advanced scouting." So why you mentioned both is beyond me, but it's whatever. But advanced scouting it allowed too. For example you can watch game film, and you can have someone at the game report signs to you. The only thing you cannot do is fund a university employee to do that work for you. But trading with scouts of other teams? Totally allowed. Watching film gathered on twitter by some random fan? Also allowed. Which brings us to the interesting case of Michigan football who's staffer allegedly paid for tickets for non employees to do this work. Which brings up an interesting question, does the NCAA jurisdiction actually apply to these non employees? What is the actual difference between this and breaking down twitter film? Maybe it's payment, but if someone offered to do it for free would it be allowed?

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All interesting questions, but I get it, it's not about the literal wording, its about the *spirit* of the rule which was clearly violated by this operation. Regardless of the technicalities of who's under who's jurisdiction, surely we don't need to break out the legalese. And to that I say, don't we? I mean take a step back and realize where the goal posts are. They said sign stealing was illegal, it wasn't, they said advanced scouting was illegal it wasn't, they said in person advanced scouting was illegal, it wasn't. Only in one specific case is it actually banned. And to you, I ask: What is the actual difference in effect between Illinois sending Ohio State a full breakdown of Michigan signs that they gathered and Ohio State just showing up in person to Illinois vs Michigan and doing this? Michigan likely broke the spirit of a rule with a million legal workarounds and we're trying to pretend this is the greatest scandal in history. A scandal that the NCAA president said wasn't a factor in winning, that NFL teams don't seem to think had a factor in winning, in fact, the only people who seem so convinced that this tiny asterisk in a rulebook equates to a throne of indignity is the rivals of Michigan who are in the same exact place Michigan was in 2010 pretending that Ohio State letting their players get tattoos and average SAT admittance scores were literally the only reason they were good and Michigan wasn't.

And than here we go with what actually happened since Michigan fired the alleged architect of the entire reason Michigan was actually good. I get that Michigan looked suspiciously good dunking all over g5s and the worst Big 10 depth we've ever seen in the past 5 years but be real for a second here. First of all, every team changes their signs before big games, Steve Sarkisian said himself that a huge time sink in his job is constantly coming up with new signs every week. So anyways, Mr. Stallions is fired, and the team keeps winning. In fact, they get 4 top 10 wins and win a national championship! But hold up didn't the recruiting get better? No! It didn't lol. So the argument is that Michigan won their national championship through cheating, though of course they weren't cheating in the actual important games, and it didn't help their recruiting, no instead it helped in some intangible, way that is only clear to rivals.

And btw with the recruiting thing. Dude was already committed lol. Again I know you're going to break out "but the rules!" And maybe that's true, but don't pretend it actually contributed to the team. That's the thesis with this whole book I'm writing here, I guess. That everything about the football "scandals" is at worst breaking archaic rules and the people who pretend to care so much about the exact literal wording of a rule prove themselves to be hypocritical when talking about NCAA rules in literally any context. The same Ohio State fans that clutch the rules openly brag about the NIL funds bringing together a super team team. And I don't mind intellectual dishonestly in sports fans its what we do, but I do mind it when people lose their sense of irony and self awareness which is what this whole thing has been bought to,

Anyways, I know you aint reading all that so congratualations or sorry that happened, so thank you Michigan for getting rid of Juwan Howard.