Everyone knows what this is about, yet few in the industry are willing to come out and state the allegedly American ethics and morals that need to be stated: cheaters cannot be allowed to prosper in this nation, period. Yet we have seen it in Major League Baseball, observed it in the National Football League, and pretty much known it existed in college football, too, for some time. Yet now? It’s overtly in our faces—again.

Generally, people don’t seem to like cheaters, yet when there is money to be made from desperate fans needing something to cling to, organized sports seem to look the other way—including journalists, who should know better. But the mediots are desperate to stay relevant themselves, despite choosing to go along with the fraud … because it seems to pay better than actually maintaining journalistic standards. Weird.

If the B1G doesn’t act accordingly in this situation, we will no longer bother covering that conference’s lies. We had a plan to do so more, with the demise of the Pacific-12 Conference, but it’s not going to happen unless honesty and integrity are maintained by alleged institutions of higher education. We already know the CFP is corrupt, but we’re not sure it wants to lose more viewers than it has already. As for the NCAA …

We told you years ago the institution was doomed. When money rules the day, ethics and morality go out the window. We’re fine living in the past, as it certainly was a better place than today: not perfect … but certainly more honest and real. We’re published historians here, so we know a lot of this is mythos—but it’s the mythos that made America great once, despite its many seriously deep flaws. We prefer that to this.

Always.