I wish the whole world would read this Dan Wetzel column

They were wrong.

We’re all going to part of one of the biggest sports documentaries of all time when this is all said and done. (No doubt what more than a few of us have written here will be a part of it).  

For people who make a living writing and speaking about this, their words will be remembered.  

This week they need all the clicks from M fans they can get. No money in playing the cheater narrative anymore 

I thought Wetzel was one of the only ones who was fair all along. Wasserman and Pete and Feldman and Mandel seem to be the ones who need to (and are to varying degrees) walk anything back. 

Michigan haters want this scandal to strip the achievements of our team this season. They could care less whether the college footballl world's response to the sterile Stalions allegations was an extreme overreaction or that it gave Michigan any measurable advantage at all let alone a projected 21-point edge per game while according to Big Ten officials jeopardizing player safety in the process. 

If this issue is going to be investigated and consequences administered beyond what Michigan has already been subjected to based on preliminary review, then let the heavens fall.

Because the only real penalty that will have any meaning is denying Michigan a national championship after the fact. And we get to play for that accomplishment --which, believe me, will never escape anyone's memory regardless of any pending NCAA threat, like some forgotten unpaid college tuition debt.

Michigan just played in the most watched college football game of our lifetime and bullied in the trenches an all-time coach and opponent . Michigan drives college football. Let the rest of them eat cake. 

But if it has to be, I DO want to know who started this. How it became a thing and how our rivals launched a coup to try and ruin an all-time Michigan record season. 

Stalions hiring people to stand up with phone cameras and drawing meaningful intelligence from such an undisciplined amateur operation seems to me to be one of the dumbest ways to gain a competitive edge.

Hiring the former linebacker coach of a team you are about to play and who could give you way more direct understanding of opponent information than any sophisticated sign-stealing scheme seems the way to go.

So that's what Nick Saban did. And nobody thought anything of it, just like reaction to Big Ten coaches allegedly providing TCU with sign-stealing reports gathered a year ago as Michigan was about to play the Horned Frogs in a semi-final matchup.

This isn't over. And Michigan can't forget how it was treated with total disrespect by the conference and its members. Michigan against Everybody is what it is.

I get what you’re saying Wendy, but it’s pretty fun! Mostly Buckeye fans with nothing left other than hollering “Cheaters!!” 

Yes. I think the view around here is skewed because we're focusing on what OSU/MSU/PSU fans say. The Ohio State win ended this. The Alabama win cleaned up any stragglers.

Thank God the Stallions story didn't break next month. It helped us in some ways that it hit in October before the big games.

That "unfair advantage" word play by Jim was BRILLIANT. It was sarcasm and mockery all in one.   

Not even just the spirit because he lobs the full on accusation later on:

“Everybody does it” is not a reasonable excuse for what Stalions was doing. The advanced scouting rule exists. Michigan got caught. If the NCAA wants to apply additional penalties beyond Harbaugh's suspension then so be it.

FOH, Wetzel.

I agree, but in all fairness to Wetzel, even Sam Webb claims without hesitation that what Stalions is accused of was a violation. If the homers are saying it, can we expect better from the national press?

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These players follow Harbaugh’s leadership and respond to how he handles things.

His coaching job this season has been exceptional.

Now let’s put the cherry on top. 

That should make us all that much more thankful that Michigan beat OSU last month. If you thought that articles and commentary leading up to The Game were bad, it would've been 10x worse had Michigan lost. 

Guys like Thamel, Finebaum, and every vulture down in Columbus and EL looking to continue picking at the carcass had write-ups primed and ready to go for weeks before that matchup kicked off, and had Michigan lost, they would've been released immediately following the game. They were all itching and begging to hit that Publish button. 

I don't doubt that those write-ups would've been as bad as you would've ever seen about Michigan, regarding not just how it was proven that Stallions was the only reason for their success, not just how Harbaugh is the cheating scum of the Earth, but that the character and integrity of every single player on the roster would've been immediately judged as fraudulent. They would've all been guilty by association, and that narrative would've been pushed for weeks and months. It would've been pushed at every possible opportunity, until that was all that their legacies would ever be outside Ann Arbor. 

Instead, Michigan won. And all those stories got deleted, never to be seen or heard from again. Aside from Joe Paterno not coming to coach Michigan, that might've been the biggest bullet Michigan ever dodged as a program. 

What lopsided loss to South Carolina.  They came from behind on 2012 and 2017.  Did I miss one?

thoughtful post.  one minor nit to pick: winning 3 B10CG's is winning 3 straight postseason games.  they sure aren't regular season games.

yes, joy.  boatloads of joy.

p.s. why are you in bolivia? 

Pretty sure he was talking about the play on the field.  In 2018 and 2019, Michigan wasn't as good as OSU on the field.

Stallions himself was a good in house sign stealer and could diagnose well. 

How do we even know this?

I was also under the impression that no one cared about the Connor Stallions stuff at this point other than 11w/RCMB types. Michigan in the national championship game is a nightmare for them so they need to take comfort wherever they can.