SelectionSunday
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Michigan title not getting stripped, no postseason ban.
Favored status. Ugh!!Michigan title not getting stripped, no postseason ban.
To hell with all these privileged schools, I agree let’s put up the damn bannersMichigan title not getting stripped, no postseason ban.
I do get the tough spot where you are punishing a team for the actions of people who are no longer associated with the team. That said, in this era players can easily move to another school so if they don't like the ban then they can transfer. Any punishment that doesn't involve a post season ban is not a punishment.
I agree. Hang the banners.Michigan title not getting stripped, no postseason ban.
I agree. Hang the banners.
But to be fair, the CFP championship is not an NCAA championship so there's nothing to strip.
The current NCAA Division 1 football champions are NDSU.
I am in the minority here. Drives me crazy when they bring Clem back and fans love him. He knew the rules, he cheated and he got caught. Do I forgive him? Yes. Does he belong on campus and the banners hung? No way.I don't care if the NCAA or B1G don't like it. Bring back Clem (while we still can) and the players and hang those banners.
Rather have a dirty program that wins than the trash we've been stuck with for decades.I am in the minority here. Drives me crazy when they bring Clem back and fans love him. He knew the rules, he cheated and he got caught. Do I forgive him? Yes. Does he belong on campus and the banners hung? No way.
Based on the sentiment of many on this board, you are not alone.Rather have a dirty program that wins than the trash we've been stuck with for decades.
Talk to my North Carolina buddies.Based on the sentiment of many on this board, you are not alone.
DING!! DING!! DING!!!!First, the banners should never have come down. Second, Michigan did nothing wrong. Third, the NCAA committee is worthless.
No doubt there is favoritism to the blue bloods and the penalties they receive or do not receive. That is irrelevant. If you are going 70 in a 55 mph zone and get a ticket, you deserve it (me too). The fact that someone else was going 72 and did not get stopped has no bearing on your ticket.Talk to my North Carolina buddies.
The reality is that receiving "assistance" has been happening at blue blood schools for half a century while the NCAA turned a blind eye. I am all for justice, but that would require a vast amount of teams having their banners taken down.
At what point do you quit feeling guilty that you got a speeding ticket? You are sounding like an absolutist obsessive: there is only black and white, gray does not exist.No doubt there is favoritism to the blue bloods and the penalties they receive or do not receive. That is irrelevant. If you are going 70 in a 55 mph zone and get a ticket, you deserve it (me too). The fact that someone else was going 72 and did not get stopped has no bearing on your ticket.
Change the word this to any.At what point do you quit feeling guilty that you got a speeding ticket? You are sounding like an absolutist obsessive: there is only black and white, gray does not exist.
What happens when you find out the radar gun was grossly out of calibration and added MPH to the reading of your speed?
We have to stop punishing this program for being honest. We stood up, faced the music, and took more of a punishment than other schools would have gotten.
The NCAA has become such a weak governing body that not hanging the banners makes us look pathetic, mewling and impotent compared to other D1 schools.
Then again maybe we should stay frozen in time because of our transgressions. Maybe we should deny that we learned something from this incident. Refusing to acknowledge growth from learning episodes does really fit the profile of an educational organization after all.