The dealing with of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal has been a debacle from the beginning, and it culminated Friday with the Big Ten suspending coach Jim Harbaugh for the ultimate three video games. U-M filed a short lived restraining order in opposition to its personal convention that it hopes can be expedited earlier than kickoff at midday EST. Two of these contests Harbaugh is slated to overlook are the Wolverines’ solely in opposition to high 10 groups within the common season so it’s no shock that one last-second heave was met with one other.
You know an investigation was botched when it makes Roger Goodell seem like a seasoned choose. The bulletin board materials, for a staff that began the season with out its head coach for 4 video games, was readily acknowledged with members of the Wolverines tweeting “Bet” after the ruling was handed out.
As far as infractions are involved, I’ve by no means seen one meted out midseason. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti’s choice to go forward with a punishment that was so clearly going to be challenged felt like one thing Donald Trump would do simply to flex his authority/be a dick.
The finish of this college football season now revolves round Ann Arbor, or wherever the Wolverines are enjoying, which at this time is Happy Valley. Prayers up for James Franklin and the Nittany Lion offense.
The one factor that can’t be neglected is the unintentional comedy the Harbaugh ban has sparked. No one is louder than a slighted college football fan base, together with Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson. Where you stand on the problem’s morality depends upon how you’re feeling about Michigan (or the NCAA).
Opportunity, or everlasting embarrassment, awaits Franklin and Ryan Day. Imagine the backlash if they misplaced to a Harbaugh-less Michigan staff? Actually, don’t think about that; it’s dangerous karma if that’s the end result you’re rooting for.
This is additional proof that of all of the establishments with out management, the NCAA is 1A. Petitti confirmed as much as the crime scene and large boyed the game’s “governing body” like brokers Johnson and Johnson did Paul Gleason outdoors Nakatomi Tower. There’s a cause B1G colleges went to their commissioner, and never the NCAA.
What I’ve realized from residing in “Big Ten country” the previous two years is Michigan hates Ohio State, Ohio State hates Michigan, and the rest of the convention hates them each. Wait, wait, wait … did Petitti galaxy mind this whole state of affairs?
It’s higher to ingratiate your self to the opposite 35 Big Ten groups, together with one of the ability brokers. So Petitti, figuring out that his ruling can be thrown out nearly instantly, levied it anyway in hopes that Michigan followers would forgive him, or not less than deem him a innocent buffoon, and transfer on.
Yeah, I don’t imagine it both, however studying my stream of consciousness in actual time is enjoyable, proper? The solely correct assertion within the final paragraph was Petitti is a innocent buffoon.
We’ll see how Michigan responds — on the sector. I’m not good sufficient to know the place this goes within the courts.
Stop me if you’ve heard this earlier than (or proceed if you wish to snort at James Harden)
The Los Angeles Clippers have three Los Angeles natives, and a man from Palmdale. Between them, they have two MVPs, two finals MVPs, and two NBA titles. Granted one participant is accountable for two-thirds of these accolades, it doesn’t make the Clippers much less tragic.
After a 22-point loss in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks in a much-ballyhooed in-season match recreation, the Clips are actually 0-3 when new addition James Harden performs, and 3-5 general. It’s early, however if we can’t snort on the Clippers, what’s the purpose of the Clippers?
Loads of, if not all of, the marquee gamers really feel redundant. The identical goes for the B-squad guards. None of the bigs house the ground aside from 38-year-old P.J. Tucker. The upside is they have 74 extra video games to reprogram every little thing about the best way they method the sport.
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