Headline on ESPN (NCAAF): The sign-stealing allegations are a (mostly) harmless, fun CFB scandal. Michigan -- and their haters -- should embrace it
Villains make sports more fun. Especially when it's for a mostly harmless (and funny!) offense like Michigan's alleged sign stealing. So the Wolverines should embrace their new role and the rest of us should enjoy it.
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Why Michigan should embrace sign-stealing villain role
If Connor Stalions did what he has been accused of, then he and Michigan will be punished. And they should be. But this also isn't a crime. It isn't even a betting scandal or rampant recruiting violations with bags of cash being passed around. No one here has been hurt or even arrested.
In a weird way, it's actually a bit refreshing. A genuine on-field football controversy that has also become a deliciously stupid game of gloved finger pointing. Cheating is bad. That we can all agree on. And in the end, the truth will be revealed, and the official comeuppance, whatever form that takes, will be handed down from above. But that's going to take a while.
Between now and whenever that might be, everyone dressed in blue can't do anything but play football games and wait. So, why waste that time fighting the outside world when you could be standing on the sideline spot where Stalions is no longer allowed, from Ann Arbor all the way into the postseason, arms outstretched like the baddies you now are and bellowing, "BWAHAHAHAHA!"