Cal88 said:calumnus said:
Ok, I was wrong about this and am kind of shocked. Michigan is undefeated. The B1G says they have no evidence Harbaugh knew (though the DC had to know or what is the point?) and there is evidence the rest of the conference was doing the same thing. It would have been so easy to push the investigation into the off season to determine Harbaugh's involvement and then issue any suspensions for a body-bag game next year. This was huge. If Michigan loses during Harbaugh's suspension…..
There is a cultural element here, people in the Midwest (especially outside the big cities) are more serious about rules and more upstanding than in the rest of the country. I have a friend who went to Purdue, and he said that most of their final exams were not proctored, the students abiding strictly to the honor code, and that the only people who ever cheated were some of the foreign students, who were very much resented by the locals for this. That is a trait about the American heartland that many outsiders like Tocqueville admired, and even today, some of those values are still in place in the Midwest.
I think a lot of people at Michigan are genuinely embarrassed by Harbaugh's cheating, that's why their administration responded.
They're embarrassed that they got caught. To pretend otherwise is to pretend football culture in the Midwest doesn't exist.